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by Sandra Boyd* More than four hundred years ago, and children. Also aboard were two Indians, Europeans wanted to set up Manteo and Wanchese, who had gone to colonies in the New World. For England with Raleigh's previous expedition them, the New World meant the present- and were returning to their home. The pilot day continents of North was a Spaniard, Simon Fernando, and the and South America. What challenging times those must have been! Sir Walter Raleigh, an adventurous English gentleman, sent a group of men to explore the New World. A later expedition established a settlement on Roanoke Island, on the North Carolina coast. In 1586, after enduring winter hardships, lack of food, and disagreements with the Indians, survivors of this colony returned home to England with Sir Francis Drake. Then Raleigh decided to send a second group of colonists. On The baptism of Virginia Dare. April 26,1587, a small fleet set sail from England, hoping to establish governor of the new colony was John White. the first permanent English settlement in the Among the colonists were Governor White's New World. daughter, Eleanor, and her husband, This second group of colonists differed Ananias Dare. The voyage took longer than from the first because it included not only the usual six weeks, and the ships finally men but also women and children. It would anchored off Roanoke Island on July 22. be a permanent colony. The little fleet Once the colonists landed, they began consisted of the ship Lyon, a flyboat (a fast, repairing the houses already there and flat-bottomed boat capable of maneuvering started building new homes. Eleanor Dare in shallow water), and a pinnace (a small gave birth to a baby girl on August 18 and sailing ship used to carry supplies). These named her Virginia. Virginia Dare became vessels carried more than 150 men, women, the first English child born in the New World. *Sandra Boyd is a special education teacher at Apex High School in Apex. She THJH, Spring 2000 volunteers at the North Carolina Museum of History. .

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