August 18

When Virginia Dare was born on the 18th in 1587, she was the first English child born in the New World. Her mother was Eleanor Dare, whose father was John White, governor of the colony of Roanoke, Virginia. Shortly after Virginia’s birth, the governor left Roanoke to return to England to get more supplies for the struggling community. When he finally returned in 1590, on what would have been his grand daughter’s third birthday, he discovered that neither his daughter, granddaughter, nor anyone else for that matter, was there. The entire colony had disappeared!