Virginia Dare on This Day in History

 

This Day In History: Virginia Dare was born on this day in 1587. She was the first English child born in the New World. She was also part of the first American unsolved mystery...the Lost Colony of Roanoke, where she and the rest of the inhabitants mysteriously disappeared. 

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 has been featured as a main character in books, poems, songs, comic books, television programs, and films. Her name has been used to sell different types of goods, from vanilla products to soft drinks, as well as wine and spirits. Many places in North Carolina and elsewhere in the Southern United States have been named in her honor.

Snorri Thorfinnsson was the first white child born in Vinland (Greenland/Newfoundland) over 1000 years ago, Hélène Desportes was the first French child born in New France (Canada) in about 1620, and Jonathan Guy was the first child born to English parents in Canada in 1613.

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The Province of Carolina on This Day in History

 

This Day in History: On this day in 1663, Charles II issued a new charter to a group of eight English noblemen, granting them the land of Carolina, as a reward for their faithful support of his efforts to regain the throne of England. 

Before there was a North and South Carolina, Carolina was a province of England (1663–1707) and Great Britain (1707–1712) that existed in North America and the Caribbean from 1663 until partitioned into North and South on January 24, 1712. It was part of present-day Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and The Bahamas.

The name "Carolina" is taken from the Latin word for "Charles" (Carolus), honoring King Charles II.

Although the Lost Colony on Roanoke Island was the first English attempt at settlement in the Carolina territory, the first permanent English settlement was not established until 1653, when emigrants from the Virginia Colony, with others from New England and Bermuda, settled at the mouths of the Chowan and Roanoke Rivers, on the shores of Albemarle Sound, in the northeastern corner of present-day North Carolina. The Albemarle Settlements, preceding the royal charter by ten years, came to be known in Virginia as "Rogues' Harbor". By 1664, the region was organized as Albemarle County (named after the Duke of Albemarle).

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