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Virginia Dare ( born August 18, 1587 ) was the first child born in the Americas to English parents, Ananias and Eleanor White Dare in the short-lived Roanoke Colony.
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Virginia and Dare
* 1587 – Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas.
* Birthday of Virginia Dare ( Roanoke Island )
During the past four hundred years, Virginia Dare has become a prominent figure in American myth and folklore, symbolizing different things to different groups of people.
She is the subject of a poem ( Peregrine White and Virginia Dare ) by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet, and the North Carolina Legend of the White Doe.
* August 18 – Virginia Dare, Virginia colony settler, the first person of English parentage born in America ( d. 1588 )
This unsuccessful effort represented the earliest attempt at a permanent English colony in the New World, and White's granddaughter Virginia Dare was the first English child born in the New World.
Baptism of Virginia Dare, lithograph, 1880
John White, father of the colonist Eleanor Dare, and grandfather to Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the New World, left the colony to return to England for supplies.
The Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island in Dare County, present-day North Carolina, United States was a late 16th-century attempt to establish a permanent English settlement in what later became the Virginia Colony.
Baptism of Virginia Dare, the first English child born in North America.
Left behind were about 115 colonists — the remaining men and women who had made the Atlantic crossing plus White's newly born granddaughter Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the Americas.
For four hundred years, various authors have speculated that the captive girl was Virginia Dare.
It is named after Virginia Dare, the first child born in the Americas to English parents, who was born in what is now Dare County.
" It is in the northeastern section of the State and is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, Currituck Sound, Camden County, Dare County and the state of Virginia.
Eventually, John White's daughter Eleanor married Ananias Dare, and they had the first American born English child, Virginia Dare.
Dare County is named for Virginia Dare.
Notably, the Virginia Dare Hotel and Arcade, a neoclassical building designed in 1927 by William Lee Stoddart, continues to form the skyline of Elizabeth City and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Virginia Dare ( born August 18, 1587, date of death unknown ) was the first child born in the Americas to English parents, Eleanor ( also Ellinor or Elyonor ) and Ananias Dare.
Virginia and born
Lincoln's mother, Nancy, was the daughter of Lucy Hanks, and was born in what is now Mineral County, West Virginia, then part of Virginia.
His mother, Virginia Dell Cassidy ( 1923 – 1994 ), traveled to New Orleans to study nursing soon after he was born.
For instance, Thomas Jefferson held persons who were legally white ( less than 25 % Black ) according to Virginia law at the time, but, because they were born to slave mothers, they were born into slavery, according to the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, which Virginia adopted into law in 1662.
From 1662 the Colony of Virginia, followed by others, incorporated into law that the children took their mother's status, by the principle of partus sequitur ventrem ; all children born to enslaved mothers were born into slavery, regardless of their father's status or ancestry.
Sarandon was born and raised in Beckley, West Virginia, the son of restaurateurs Cliffie ( née Cardullias ) and Chris Sarandon, Sr. His mother is of Greek descent and his father, whose surname was originally " Sarondonethes ", was a Greek immigrant.
Charles Chandler Krulak was born in 1942 in Quantico, Virginia.
It was here that his sister Martha was born, before they once more moved, this time to Durham, North Carolina, then to Boise, Idaho and then to Alexandria, Virginia.
Eisenhower's mother, Ida Elizabeth Stover, born in Virginia of German Lutheran ancestry, moved to Kansas from Virginia.
Hubble was born to an insurance executive, John Powell Hubble, and Virginia Lee James in Marshfield, Missouri, and moved to Wheaton, Illinois, in 1900.
Fred Reed ( born 1945 in Crumpler, West Virginia ) was a technology columnist for The Washington Times.
Siegfried Fred Singer ( born September 27, 1924 ) is an Austrian-born American physicist and emeritus professor of environmental science at the University of Virginia.
Washington was born into the provincial gentry of Colonial Virginia ; his wealthy planter family owned tobacco plantations and slaves.
The first child of Augustine Washington ( 1694 – 1743 ) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington ( 1708 – 1789 ), George Washington was born on their Pope's Creek Estate near present-day Colonial Beach in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
Busey was born in Goose Creek ( now Baytown ), Texas, the son of Sadie Virginia ( née Arnett ), a homemaker, and Delmer Lloyd Busey, a construction design manager.
* John Ford ( wide receiver ) ( born 1966 ), American football player in NFL who attended University of Virginia and was with Detroit Lions during 1989 season
Eric Boucher was born in Boulder, Colorado, to parents Stanley Boucher, a psychiatric social worker and poet, and Virginia Boucher, a librarian.
Virginia and August
In August 1941, Mountbatten was appointed captain of the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious which lay in Norfolk, Virginia, for repairs following action at Malta in the Mediterranean in January.
In August, Washington attended the First Virginia Convention, where he was selected as a delegate to the First Continental Congress.
They were married on 4 May 1836 and Margherita gave birth to two children, Virginia Maria Luigia ( 26 March 1837 – 12 August 1838 ) and Icilio Romano ( 11 July 1838 – 22 October 1839 ).
On August 1, Mihdhar and fellow Flight 77 hijacker Hani Hanjour drove to Virginia in order to obtain driver's licenses.
Both were among the five hijackers who applied for Virginia identity cards at the Arlington office of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles on August 2, 2001, although Salem already held an NJ identity card.
In 2008, the Seahawks held the first three weeks of camp in Kirkland, then moved to the new Virginia Mason Athletic Center ( VMAC ) on August 18 for the final week of training camp.
A 5. 8 magnitude earthquake struck central Virginia on August 23, 2011, near Mineral.
* August 6 – Virginia Foster Durr, American civil rights activist ( d. 1999 )
* August 25 – American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell is assassinated in Arlington, Virginia.
* August 9 – American Civil War – Battle of Cedar Mountain: At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.
* August 18 – American Civil War – Battle of Globe Tavern: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, forcing the Confederates to use wagons.
* August 8 – The Wren Building is started in Williamsburg, Virginia ( completed in 1700 ).
* August 28 – Alexandria, Virginia, offers surrender to the British fleet without a fight.
* August 2 – Jamestown: Deputy Governor Sir Thomas Gates returns to Virginia with 280 people, provisions and cattle on 6 ships and assumes control, ruling that the fort must be strengthened.
* August 1 – Virginia closes its Reform Constitutional Convention deciding that all white men have the right to vote.
* August 21 – USA: Nat Turner's slave rebellion breaks out in Southampton County, Virginia.
* August 6 – Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia ( d. 1675 )
* August 19 – Thomas Dale, governor of the Virginia colony
* August – James Rumsey tests his first steam boat in the Potomac river at Shepherdstown Virginia ( now West Virginia ).
* August 26 – William Byrd II, prominent planter from Virginia ( b. 1674 )
Presented in July 1781 with the options of attacking British forces in either New York or Virginia, Admiral de Grasse opted for the latter, arriving at the Chesapeake at the end of August.
Joseph Allen Towles was born in Senora, Virginia on August 17, 1937.
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