Encyclopedia > John White

Article Content

John White

John White was Sir Walter Raleigh's surveyor-general on his first voyage to the New World (so he made a lot of sketches of what they found, including this one of the Indians). Later, he became governor of the new colony of Roanoke, and the first baby born there was his granddaughter, Virginia Dare.

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Cherokee

... is written in a syllabary invented by Sequoyah[?] (a.k.a. George Guess). He had seen English writing, but misunderstood how it worked; thus, each symbol represents a ...