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John White (c. 1539 –c. 1593) was an English colonial governor, explorer, artist, and cartographer.White was among those who sailed with Richard Grenville in the first attempt to colonize Roanoke Island in 1585, acting as artist and mapmaker to the expedition.
Watercolor painting by Governor John White, c. 1585, of an Algonkin Indian Chief in what is today North Carolina. (Manteo) (Manteo) The Secotans were one of several groups of Native Americans dominant in the Carolina sound region, between 1584 and 1590, with which English colonists had varying degrees of contact.
John White at the ruins of the Roanoke colony, 1590. Eventually, Raleigh arranged passage for White on a privateering expedition organized by John Watts. The fleet of six ships would spend the summer of 1590 raiding Spanish outposts in the Caribbean, but the flagship Hopewell and the Moonlight would split off to take White to his colony. [113]
Eleanor Dare (née White; c. 1568 – disappeared 27 August 1587) of Westminster, London, England, was a member of the Roanoke Colony and the daughter of John White, the colony's governor. While little is known about her life, more is known about her than most of the sixteen other women who left England in 1587 as part of the Roanoke expedition.
[3]: 45, 80–81 The colonists arrived at Roanoke in July 1587, with John White as the appointed governor. [3]: 82, 89 Their intended destination was the Chesapeake Bay, but the crew of the expedition refused to take them farther than Roanoke.
ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) – The Northern Lights put on an amazing show over much of the region on Thursday, October 10. WFXR asked viewers to submit photos of the event and received some incredible ...
Roanoke Island was the site of the Roanoke Colony, an English settlement initially established in 1585 by Sir Walter Raleigh. A group of about 120 men, women and children arrived in 1587. Shortly after arriving here, colonist Eleanor Dare, daughter of Governor John White, gave birth to Virginia Dare, the first English child born in North ...
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