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7 unusual facts about Virginia Dare


1602: New World

Virginia Dare, the daughter of Ananias Dare, and the first English child born in the Americas.

Ananias Dare

He was the father of Virginia Dare, whose birth on August 18, 1587 was the first recorded to English parents on the continent of North America.

Eleanor Dare

It is known that she gave birth to Virginia Dare, the first child of English parents born in North America, on August 18, 1587, shortly after their arrival, and that, along with everyone else in the "Lost Colony", she disappeared while her father went to get supplies back in England.

Lost Colony DNA Project

John White, whose daughter, son-in-law, and grandchild Virginia Dare, were among the colonists, believed this message meant they had gone to Croatoan Island where their friend Manteo was Chief of the Indians.

Roanoke Island

John White, father of the colonist Eleanor Dare, and grandfather to Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the New World, left the colony to return to England for supplies.

St Bride's Church

Their daughter Virginia Dare was to be the first English child born in North America.

The Charnel Prince

Clearly a reference to the first child born in the New World, Virginia Dare, and Virginia Colony.


The Heart, She Holler

"Meemaw" Virginia Dare (Judith Anna Roberts) The matriarch of Heartshe Holler, and the bearer of the curse of Heartshe, being unable to die – though Boss Hoss reveals at the end of Season 1 that the real secret curse is that she can die, through unspecified means, and if she does it will result in the destruction of Heartshe Holler.


see also

Colony of Virginia

Dare County was named in honor of the baby Virginia Dare, who was among those whose fate is unknown.