Today's Birthdays: August 18

August 18

Virginia Dare

1587, first white child of English parents to be born in America.

She was the daughter of Ananias and Elenor Dare, members of Sir Walter Raleigh's ill-fated colony that settled Roanoke Island on the North Carolina coast. Since no trace remained of the colony when the relief expedition reached Roanoke in 1591, the child's fate is not known.

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