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First child born in the new world

2006-11-07 10:37:25 · 1 answers · asked by Queen B 1 in Arts & Humanities History

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No one knows, as she and the other settlers of the Roanoke colony disappeared mysteriously shortly thereafter.

Virginia may not have bee the first European child born in America. Competing claims credit Martin de Arguelles, born in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1566, 21 years before Virginia; unlike Virginia (who is known only through her reports to England from her Grandfather, John White), Martin's birth is actually documented in the files of the Library of Congress. There are also claims that the first child was born in Greenland (owned by Denmark but associated with North America), Snorri Þorfinnsson sometime between 1005 and 1013, but this is not documented.

2006-11-07 10:52:16 · answer #1 · answered by nacmanpriscasellers 4 · 0 0

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