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Virginia Dare is Born, and White Goes Back to England
02/01/2009 14:50
It was August 18 when White got his first grandchild. Her name was Virginia Dare and she was the first English child born in America. She was getting baptised by John White. Her ceremony had to be ended suddenly as very bad news came to the colonists. ...
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Manteo
02/01/2009 14:10
White was losing faith and was in anguish knowing that soon other attacks might come. White went with a small group to the island of Croatan. This is where Manteo was born. He brought along Manteo who had gone to England with Lane. He went...
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The Two Groups are Together Again
02/01/2009 13:47
The day was the 25th of August. Spicer's ship--the ship with the other half of the colonists on it-- was abandoned. It wasn't just left in an ocean. It was left in Spanish waters. The captain had never seen, nor been to Roanoke Island. It was a...
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The Final Piece of Hope is Killed
02/01/2009 13:40
While still on the island, John White came upon the skeleton of one of Ralph Lane's troops. He was kept by the fort to help guard it along with fourteen others which had vanished. There was no clue on where they could have gone. Now White knew that there...
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Marooned
02/01/2009 12:25
It was all very simple. Fernandez stopped at Roanoke and ordered his men to take White and his colonists ashore. He told them to just well, leave them there. White desperately begged him not to and to at least bring them to Chesapeake Bay which...
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Planned?
02/01/2009 10:55
White knew that somebody must of planned this out. Why would Fernandez do this to them on his own? He had somebody--somebody that had maybe...ordered him? Or was he working along with him on his own free will? Was he getting paid? Was he put up...
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Set Into Action
17/12/2008 19:25
John White, his daughter Eleanor (six months pregnant), and her husband, Ananias, were leaving Plymouth Harbor for the last time. Only 117 people were going and their party was divided up into two groups--two ships. Many of the people seemed to have been wealthy...
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White's Plan
17/12/2008 18:48
Instead of an interst in a fort on Roanoke Island, John White wanted to create a colony far away from the turmoil of London. It would be very peaceful and especially distanced from Ralph Lane and his rampage. Raleigh funded this project as he approved. He...
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London
17/12/2008 17:12
London's style was always on the move.
Women wore fancy dresses, some were quite strange. Men wore French breechers.
There were even laws passed defining the appropriate clothing styles for each social class.
Competition occured in kinds of food served, writing poetry, playing musical...
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John White
17/12/2008 15:51
John White was an artist. He was not anywhere near Ralph Lane and his terrible doings. He was a pro at watercolors and he painted and sketched many people and places in the Secota land. He had been on both of Raleigh's expeditions. He went with...
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