Baptism of Virginia Dare

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Bart BAPTISM OF VIRGINIA DARE. COPYRIGHT 1907 BY JAMESTOWN A. & V. Co.

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1607-JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION-1907 1607 OFFICIAL SOUVENIR 1907 UNITED STATES. CUBA.CANADA AND MEXICO FOREIGN TWO CENTS. NDOSI COPYRIGHT EX.CO IOS JAMESTOWN OFFICIAL SEAL PUBLISHED BY THE CONCESSIONAIRE, THE JAMESTOWN AMUSEMENT & VENDING CO., INC., NORFOLK VA. FOR COMMUNICATION THIS SPACE MAY BE USED No. 1. BAPTISM OF VIRGINIA DARE. The first white child of English-speaking parents born in America, August 18, 1587. Her mother, wife of Ananias Dare, was the daughter of Governor White, head of the colony founded by Sir Walter Raleigh on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, in 1587. This colony, consisting of eighty-nine men, seventeen women and eleven children, during the absence of the Governor, who had gone to England for supplies, disappeared completely in 1590, and was never seen or heard of again.