Here a little granddaughter was born (August 18, 1587), and named Virginia.

She was the child of Eleanor Dare, and was the first child born of English parents in America.
[Illustration: Roanoke Island and vicinity] Governor White soon found it necessary to go back to England for supplies, and, in consequence of the Spanish war, three years slipped by before he was able to return to the colony.

He was then too late.

Every soul had perished, and to this day nobody knows how or where.

Ralegh could do no more, and in 1589 made over all his rights to a joint-stock company of merchants.