The North Carolina Booklet. GREAT EVENTS IN NORTH CAROLINA HISTORY. The Booklets will be in the following order : 1. Virginia Dare, Maj. Graham Daves. 2. Colonial New Bern, Mrs. Sara Beaumont Kennedy. 3. Liberty, Property and no Stamp Duty. Col. A. M. Waddell. One Booklet a month will be issued by the North Carolina Society of the Daughters of the Revolution, beginning May 10th, 1901. Price $1.00 a year. EDITORS. MISS MARTHA HELEN HAYWOOD, RALEIGH, N. C. MRS. HUBERT HAYWOOD, "Carolina! Carolina! Heaven's blessings attend her! While we live we will cherish, protect and defend her." VIRGINIA DARE. On the eastern shore of North Carolina, in the shallow sounds enclosed by long sand banks, which bound the coast, lies a little island twelve miles long and three miles broad. This is Roanoke-the scene of the first English settlement in this country, and the birth-place of Virginia Dare, the first English child born in America. How much of romance, and yet more of history, -" a romance of the real "-clusters around the sad story of this young girl! Out of the unfortunate expeditions, of which she, in some sense, may be said to have been the first fruits, grew the schemes of colonization at Jamestown and at Plymouth a score of years later. The seed were sown at Roanoke, were fertilized by the sacrifice of the settlers there, but took enduring root first at Jamestown. Associated with the humble, and almost unknown colonists of Roanoke are the names: Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen; Raleigh, the preux chevalier, soldier, statesman, poet, historian; Sir Richard Grenville, sailor, soldier and martyr; Sir Francis Drake, Admiral and circumnavigator of the Globe. Truly our little Virginia Dare was in goodly company. Of chroniclers, too, she, her companions and their acts, had no lack. There were Arthur Barlowe, who commanded a ship in the first expedition; Lane, the governor of the first colo |