Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-08-18 | Page 4 | Today is Anniversary of Virginia Dare's Birth

ss TH s jj VIRGINIA DARES DARE'S BIRTH On August 18 1587 1581 Virginia Dare the first child born in America of ot English parent parentE was born on Roanoke Island Va now a part of North of-North t North Carolina Caroline Sir Walter Raleigh was trying to found a 3 colony In this r region glon which called ho Virginia In honor of oC Queen Elizabeth tho UIO Virgin qU e The Thc now new bab baby therefore was named Corthe for Cor fortim tim the countr country She was tho granddaughter grand grand- rand rand- dau daughter of oC John White who was as assent sent out ut by Raleigh a as governor of ot the the- Roanoke ec colony ron Two days after her birth t she ho was baptized d according to th the rites of or tho Church of ot England This was the first celebration of oC the tho rite of oC Christian baptism of ot a North orti American born white child Before Virginia was Crag three years ears old tho colony disappeared and no noone noone one knows to this day what became of ot It The Jo lost t colony ot of Roanoke Roan Roan- oke oko i is ii regarded as one of ot the tho mysterIes mys mys- teries of ot history One legend is that the tho colonists intermarried with tho the Indians and are th the ancestors ancestors an an- of ot the present band of ot Croatan Indians Indiana living In tho the southern southern south south- em ern part of oC North who number about William on the other hand writing in 1613 states the themen themen men women ond children hildren ot of the first plantation of Roanoke were killed by practice and commandment commandment command command- ment of ot Powhattan