List of colonists at Roanoke
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Roanoke Colony
was an enterprise financed and organized by Sir Walter Raleigh in the late 16th century to establish a permanent English settlement
in the Virginia Colony.
Adult male colonists (cont'd):
Adult female colonists:
Children:
Roanoke Colony
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. The enterprise was financed and organized by Sir Walter Raleigh and carried out by...
was an enterprise financed and organized by Sir Walter Raleigh in the late 16th century to establish a permanent English settlement
English colonial empire
The English colonial empire consisted of a variety of overseas territories colonized, conquered, or otherwise acquired by the former Kingdom of England between the late 16th and early 18th centuries....
in the Virginia Colony.
List of colonists
Adult male colonists:- John WhiteJohn White (surveyor)John White was an English artist, and an early pioneer of English efforts to settle the New World. He was among those who sailed with Richard Grenville to North Carolina in 1585, acting as artist and mapmaker to the expedition. During his time at Roanoke Island he made a number of watercolor...
, governor - Roger Bailie, assistant
- Ananias DareAnanias DareAnanias Dare was the husband of Eleanor White, whom he married at St Bride's Church in Fleet Street, City of London. He was father of Virginia Dare, whose birth on August 18, 1587 was the first recorded to English parents on the continent of North America.Dare was a London tiler and bricklayer...
, assistant - Christopher Cooper, assistant
- Thomas Stevens, assistant
- John Sampson, assistant
- Dyonis Harvie, assistant
- Roger Prat, assistant
- George Howe, assistant
- Nicholas Johnson
- Thomas Warner
- Anthony Cage
- John Jones
- John Tydway
- Ambrose Viccars
- Edmond English
- Thomas Topan
- Henry Berrye
- Richard Berrye
- John Spendlove
- John Hemmington
- Thomas Butler
- Edward Powell
- John Burden
- James Hynde
- Thomas Ellis
- William Browne
- Michael Myllet
- Thomas Smith
- Richard Kemme
- Thomas Harris
- Richard Taverner
- John Earnest
- Henry Johnson
- John Starte
- Richard Dange
- William Lucas
- Arnold Archard
- John Wright
- William Dutton
- Morris Allen
- William Waters
- Richard Arthur
- John Chapman
- William Clement
- Robert Little
Adult male colonists (cont'd):
- Hugh Tayler
- Richard Wildye
- Lewes Wotton
- Michael Bishop
- Henry Browne
- Henry Rufoote
- Richard Tomkins
- Henry Dorrell
- Charles Florrie
- Henry Mylton
- Henry Payne
- Thomas Harris
- William Nicholes
- Thomas Phevens
- John Borden
- Thomas Scot
- William Willes
- John Brooke
- Cutbert White
- John Bright
- Clement Tayler
- William Sole
- John Cotsmur
- Humfrey Newton
- Thomas Colman
- Thomas Gramme
- Marke Bennet
- John Gibbes
- John Stilman
- Robert Wilkinson
- Peter Little
- John Wyles
- Brian Wyles
- George Martyn
- Hugh Pattenson
- Martyn Sutton
- John Farre
- John Bridger
- Griffen Jones
- Richard Shaberdge
- James Lasie
- John Cheven
- Thomas Hewet
- William Berde
- Edouard Jourdan
Adult female colonists:
- Eleanor DareEleanor DareEleanor White Dare of Westminster, London, England was a member of the Roanoke Colony and the daughter of John White, the colony's governor. While little is known about her life, more is known about her than most of the sixteen other women who left England in 1587 as part of the Roanoke...
(Elyoner Dare) - Margery Harvie
- Agnes Wood
- Wenefrid Powell
- Joyce Archard
- Jane Jones
- Elizabeth Glane
- Jane Pierce
- Audry Tappan
- Alis Chapman
- Emme Merrimoth
- --- Colman
- Margaret Lawrence
- Joan Warren
- Jane Mannering
- Rose Payne
- Elizabeth Viccars
Children:
- John Sampson
- Robert Ellis
- Ambrose Viccars
- Thomas Archard
- Thomas Humfrey
- Thomas Smart
- George Howe
- John Prat
- William Wythers
- Virginia DareVirginia DareVirginia Dare was the first child born in the Americas to English parents, Eleanor and Ananias Dare. She was born into the short-lived Roanoke Colony in what is now North Carolina, USA. What became of Virginia and the other colonists remains a mystery...
- -- Harvie