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| | Virginia Dare |
 | | Virginia Dare (18 August 1587 - ?) is a colonial figure born on Roanoke Island, now in North Carolina. |
 | | Her parents, Eleanor (Ellinor, Elyonor) and Ananias Dare, had been among the approximately 120 settlers who left England on May 8, 1587, on an expedition sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh. |
 | | Raleigh had intended that the settlement should be established in the Chesapeake Bay area, but the captain of their ship, the Lion, had his passengers land instead on Roanoke Island, the site of an unsuccessful earlier colonization venture. |
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