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THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1939 « // Virginia Dare Stone 77 at Georgia College Recalls Romantic Story ot The Lost Colony of Roanoke THE BAPTISM OF VIRGINIA DARE (From an old wood cut.) ' ^ By ELMO SCOTT WATSON © Western Newspaper Union. T HE recent announcement that Brenau college at Gaines ville, Ga., has acquired as a permanent possession the enigmatic “Virginia Dare Stone,” which purports to tell the fate of the “lost colony of Roanoke,” has revived interest once more in one of the most history. This stone, which was found last year on the east bank of the Chowan river in eastern North Carolina, bears on one side an inscription which is, in effect, an epitaph for Vir ginia Dare, the first English child born in America, and her father, Ananias Dare, since it says that they “went hence into Heaven in 1591.” Also on this side is a request that the stone be borne to Gov. John White of Virginia so that he might send aid to the colony. The other side of the slab has a message inscribed in Eliza bethan characters and signed with the initials E. W. D. (pre sumably Eleanor White Dare, daughter of Governor White and mother of .Virginia Dare) which tells how the colonists went up Albemarle Sound and into the Chowan river soon after White returned to England for supplies in 1587. In four years, the message says, they were reduced in number to 24 by sickness and death at the hands of hostile Indians. Finally in 1591 the savages killed all but seven of the remaining colonists and they were buried on small hills near the river. The story on the stone is log ical enough, according to histo rians who have examined it. But acceptance of its information as a final solution of the famous mys tery must await corroborative evidence. Authentic or Hoax? Is the “Virginia Dare Stone” an authentic relic of the “Lost Colony” or is it another hoax? Opinion on that point is divided. Some believe that there is quite as much reason for regarding it as genuine as there is for accept ing as authentic the “Sir Francis Drake Plate” which was found out in California a short time be fore the discovery of this stone. Others believe that this stone was “planted,” as was the lead plate, which was found in Wash ington, D. C., in 1924. This plate, about the size of an automobile license tag, bore the inscription: “Virgina Dare Died Here Captif Powhatan 1590” The discovery of this plate and with it several other articles, sup posed to be the personal property of Virginia Dare, aroused a great deal of interest at the time. But it soon died down when an ex amination of the “relics” by ex perts showed that the whole thing was a hoax. The “Virginia Dare Stone” may turn out to be another fake. But, even so, it can not detract from the interest which Americans will always have in her story, com pounded, as it is, of a very small amount of fact and a larger mass of legend. The fact part consti tutes one of the briefest bits of biography in all American history. It is composed of this statement of her grandfather. Gov. John White, in a letter to Sir Walter Raleigh: “The 18th (August, 1587) Elyoner (Eleanor), daughter to the gover nor and wife to Ananias Dare, one of the assistants, was deliv- fascinating mystery stories in ered of a daughter in Roanoke, and the same was christened there the Sunday following and because this child was the first Christian born in Virginia, she was named Virginia.” That is absolutely all that is certainly known of her. The rest is supposition, plus legend. Between 1584 and 1587 Sir Wal- VIRGINIA DARE From an old woodcut in “North Carolina Illustrated” in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 1857. ter Raleigh sent out three expedi tions to colonize Virginia but they failed to become permanent set tlements because they were com posed entirely of men. Raleigh finally realized that something else was needed—women and chil dren. So the expedition which he sent out in 1587, headed by John White, who was to be governor of “The Citie of Raleigh in Vir ginia,” included 17 women and children. Among them were White’s daughter, Elyoner White Dare and her husband, Ananias Dare, destined to be the parents of the first English child born in what is now the United States. Because of trouble with his crew, White was not able to take the colonists to a location on Chesapeake Bay as instructed. Instead he stopped at Roanoke Island in search of 15 men left behind the previous year by Sir Richard Grenville, leader of an other Raleigh expedition. After they landed, White decided to re main on Roanoke Island for a time at least and set about build ing a town. Returns to England. Then followed the birth of his granddaughter and soon after wards White decided to return to England. He started on August 27, leaving 120 settlers at Roan oke. When he arrived in England he found that country busy with preparations to resist the Spanish Armada. His fleet of vessels was seized by the government and when he assembled another it was driven back by pirates near Madeira. So it was not until 1590 that he was able to obtain passage to America. This was on a privateer fleet of three vessels sent out to prey upon Spanish commerce. After a series of adventures with the enemy, they finally reached Roanoke Island at night and wefe cheered by the sight of smoke rising and a fire glowing through the trees. When they reached the shore at the north end of the island they blew trumpets and sang familiar English songs. But instead of the joyous wel come which they expected to re ceive, they were greeted with si lence. They found only the foot prints of the Indians who had fled at their approach but on a tree was carved the letters C R O. Pushing on to the site of the “Citie of Raleigh” they discov ered that the houses had been taken down and the place en closed with a high palisade. On one of the posts at the right side of the entrance was carved the word “Croatan” and inside the fort were “many bars of iron, two pigs of lead, four iron-fow lers, iron locker shot, and such like heavy things, thrown here and there, almost overgrown with grass and weeds.” But there was no other sign of the colony. No Distress Sign. Before leaving. White had in structed the colonists, if they de cided to move, to carve their destination on a tree, adding a cross if they were in distress. The absence of a cross from the tree and the post on which they found the carved words gave White hope that his people were still living. Croatan Island was the site of a village of Indians whose chief, Manteo, had been to England with the first Raleigh expedition and who was friendly to the English. It was situated on Pamlico Soimd, according to a map drawn by White, or it may have been the is land of which Cape Hatteras, N. C., is now a part. But when White urged the cap tain of the privateering fleet to send a party to Croatan his re quest was refused. Their supplies were low and the captain was anxious to resume his operations against the Spanish. Later Sir Walter Raleigh sent no less than five expeditions to search for his “Lost Colony.” But the seas were swarming with Spanish privateers and there is no record that any of the ships reached Croaton. When the first permanent Eng lish settlement was established at Jamestown, Va., in 1607, a party was sent out to try to learn the fate of the colonists. They gath ered conflicting stories from the Indians. One of them was that the colonists had lived peacefully with the Indians for a while. Then they were all suddenly slain by orders of Chief Powhatan. An other story said that all except four men and two boys were killed while still other versions indicated that one girl was •spared. From these versions sprang the legends that have grown up around the name of Virginia Dare. For more than a century the vicinity of the ill-fated colony was unexplored and its fate accepted as an unsolved mystery. Then in 1709 John Dawson, an English explorer, visited the Hatteras In- dians^who had gray or blue eyes and were familiar with the art of reading, in that they knew that the English “could make pa per speak.” These Indians were less than 100 in number and it was believed that they were de scendants of survivors of the Ro anoke Colony who had been as similated into the Indian tribe living on Croatan Island. Was Virginia Dare one of the survivors and did the blood of the first English child born in the United States flow in the veins of this mixed race? No one knows for sure and it is probable that no one will ever know. Among the legends that kr.ve grown around the name of Vir ginia Dare is the one which says that mother and daughter were among the survivors of the Lost Colony, that the Indians gave Mrs. Dare the name of the White Doe and her little girl the name of the White Fawn and that she was beloved by a brave young chief. After the White Fawn’s death her spirit assumed the form of that graceful animal and at times lingered fondly around the place of her birth, often gaz ing wistfully out over the sea. The legend also has her slain in that form by her lover who had been persuaded that the enchant ed arrow he used would restore her to him in the flesh he had known and adored. Did She Escape? That Virginia Dare may have been one of the survivors is in dicated by William Strachey, secretary of the Jamestown col ony, in his “The History of Tra- vaile,” written in 1612, concern ing the events that occurred in Virginia in 1608-10. In the first volume of that work he says: “At Peccarecommek and Ocha- nahoen, by the relation of Ma- champs, the people have houses built with stone walls, and one story above another, so taught them by those English who es caped the slaughter at Roanoke, at which time this, our colony, under the conduct of Captain Newport, landed within the Chesapeake bay; where the peo ple breed up tame turkeys about their houses . . . and where, at Ritanoe, the Weroance Eyanoco preserved seven of the English alive, four men, two boys and one young maid, who escaped the massacre and fled up the River Chanoke (Chowan). This young maid may have been Virginia Dare, who, at the time men tioned, would have been about 21 years of age.” If she did survive it is possible that she may have grown up among the Indians and married one of them, thus giving some basis for the legend cited above. Another legend describes her as a beautiful girl whom the magic of a rejected suitor changed into a white doe and the silver arrow of another warrior restored to human form. That legend of the white doe and the silver arrow, or, as some versions have it, the silver bul let, has survived all the years, and is known from Maine to Flor ida. It was probably the inspira tion for Bryant’s poem, “The Whitefooted Deer,” of the old- time school reader. Still another version of the story forms the basis for Mary THE MAID OF MYSTERY Statue of Virginia Dare by Miss Louisa Lander. Johnston’s novel “Croatan” who accepts the theory that the col onists were adopted into the Hat teras tribe and amalgamated with them. She makes Virginia Dare the heroine of her story. She shows the despondent col onists, apparently deserted by the mother country, beset by hostile Indians, falling in with the pro posal of the friendly Hatteras Indians and abandoning their set tlement to go with the natives to their own villages. Virginia is reared among the Croatans, later is captured by an other band of Indians, who look upon her as a goddess, is rescued by her sweetheart, Miles Darling, and they return together to Croa tan town, which they regard as their real and only home. Statue’s Romantic History. Besides being the inspiration for Bryant’s poem “The White- Footed Deer,” Virginia Dare was also the inspiration for another poem, “The White Doe,” by Mrs. R. R. Cotton. That in turn, was the inspiration for a statue which, itself, has had a romantic his tory. It was carved in Rome in 1860 by Miss Louisa Lander. On its way to America, the ship bearing the statue was wrecked off the Spanish coast. For two years the figure lay in the ocean’s depths. Then the vessel was raised, the statue recovered and taken to New York. While on display there it was nearly destroyed by fire. In her will, Miss Lander bequeathed it to the North Carolina Hall of History in Roanoke where it was finally placed a few years ago. This statue called “The Maid of Mystery,” shows Virginia Dare grown to womanhood and the costume, such as there is, is de cidedly a Grecian or Roman type rather than the Indian type which she probably wore. For if she ever grew to womanhood it was while she was a captive among the Indians, or an adopted daugh ter and the wife of an Indian chief—that is, if we accept the legends! TIPS to (jardeners Proper Watering Ip ACH year, more and more gar* deners are learning that gar-i dens should not be watered by sprinkling. Sprinkling usually moistens the surface soil only and thus the roots naturally come up there for water. When the root system is concentrated near the jurface there is more danger of injury by hoeing; and if sprinkling is not done constantly, plants will be quickly affected by drouth. Considered from the time angle, moreover, sprinkling is imprac tical. It can be safely done only in the evening, as water sprinkled on foliage under a hot sun may lead to damaging scalding. Evap oration is also much more rapid during the day. Even more im portant, there is a great waste of time in holding the hose and di recting the spray. The most efficient method of watering, according to Walter H. Nixon, vegetable expert, is to lay the hose on the ground. Do not have too heavy a flow of water, or there will be a washing of soil and exposure of roots. Let the water run slowly in one place for 20 minutes to half an hour. Keep the subsoil moist. 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