Ananias Dare
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Ananias Dare was a colonist of the Roanoke Colony of 1587. He was the husband of Eleanor White, whom he married at St Bride's Church in London, and the father of Virginia Dare, the first English child
Baptism of Virginia Dare lithograph with Ananias Dare in the center (1880)
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John White was an English colonial governor, explorer, artist, and cartographer. White was among those who sailed with Richard Grenville in the first attempt to colonise Roanoke Island in 1585, acting
Ananias Dare
…recorded to English parents on the continent of North America. Very little is known of Dare other than the birth of his child, but his father-in-law, John White, was appointed Governor during the second attempt to settle Sir Walter Raleigh's Roanoke colony in 1587. White also accompanied the 1585 to 1586…
The return of Governor White to the "Lost Colony" as imagined by artists in 1876
Watercolour by John White of Roanoke Indians
White's patron, Sir Walter Raleigh