Virginia Dare was the first English child born in an American English colony.
US postage stamp issued in 1937, the 350th anniversary of Virginia Dare's birth
Baptism of Virginia Dare, wood-engraving, 1880
The return of Governor White to the "Lost Colony"
Monument to Virginia Dare, Manteo, Roanoke Island, North Carolina
English overseas possessions
The English overseas possessions, also known as the English colonial empire, comprised a variety of overseas territories that were colonised, conquered, or otherwise acquired by the former Kingdom of England during the centuries before the Acts of Union of 1707 between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland created the Kingdom of Great Britain. The many English possessions then became the foundation of the British Empire and its fast-growing naval and mercantile power, which until then had yet to overtake those of the Dutch Republic, the Kingdom of Portugal, and the Crown of Castile.
A replica of Cabot's ship the Matthew
Queen Elizabeth
Re-enactment of English settlers arriving in Virginia, 1607
Captain John Smith, "Admiral of New England"