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to Birth of Virginia Dare, Roanoke Island, N. C.
ON THIS SITE, IN JULY-AUCUST, 1585
(0.S.),COLONISTS, SENT OUT FROM ENCLAND
BY SIR WALTER RALEIGH, BUILT A FORT, CALL-
ED BY THEM
"THE NEW FORT IN VIRGINIA"
THESE COLONISTS WERE THE First sET-
TLERS OF THE ENGLISH RACE IN AMERICA.
THEY RETURNED TO ENCLAND IN JULY. 1586,
WITH SIR FRANCIS DRAKE.
NEAR THIS PLACE WAS BORN, ON THE 18
OF AUGUST, 1587,
VIRGINIA DARE,
THE First CHILD OF ENCLISH PARENTS BORN
IN AMERICA-DAUCHTER OF ANANIAS DARE
AND ELEANOR WHITE, HIS WIFE,MEMBERS OF
ANOTHER BAND OF COLOISTS SENT OUT BY
SIR WALTER RALEICH IN 1587.
ON SUNDAY AUCUST 20. 1587. VIR
CINIA DARE WAS BAPTIZED. MANTEO THE
FRIEND LY CHIEF OF THE HATTERAS INDIANS
HAD BEEN BAPTIZED ON THE SUNDAY PRE-
CEDING THESE BAPTISMS ARE THE First
KNOWN CELEBRATIONS OF A CHRISTIAN SAC-
RAMENT IN THE TERRITORY OF THE THIR-
TEEN ORICINAL UNITED STATES
1896
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