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 18 INTRODUCTION. chap, i assistants were assigned him as a council, and a 1587. charter was granted them, incorporating them by the name of the governor and assistants of the city of Raleigh, in Virginia. ^t^niohn Thus prepared for a permanent settlement, white. they arrived in the latter end of July at Roanoke, where they received the melancholy intelligence of the loss of their countrymen who had been left there by sir Richard Grenville. Deter- mined, however, to remain at the same place, they immediately began to repair the houses, and to make the necessary preparations for their accommodation and comfort. Impressed with the dangers to be apprehended from the un- friendly dispositions of their neighbours, they endeavoured to effect a reconciliation with the natives, one of whom, who had accompanied Amidas and Barlow to England, and who had distinguished himself by his unshaken attach- ment to the English, was christened, and styled lord of Dassa Monpeake, an Indian nation in the neighbourhood. p About the same time was added to the colony the first child of English parentage, ever born in America. She was the daughter of Ananias Dare, and in token of the place of her birth, was named Virginia. On viewing the country, and their own actual situation, the colonists found themselves des- P Robertson.. .,Chahner....Slit/i.