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Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

[sibling(s) unknown]

Descendants

Father of Eleanor (White) Dare

Died about at about age 53 [location unknown]

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Biography

John was born about 1540.

John White ...

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He passed away about 1593.

John White was an English artist who in 1585 accompanied a failed colonizing expedition to Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina and who, in 1587, served as governor of a second failed expedition, which came to be known as the Lost Colony.

As an artist attached to the first group of colonists, White produced watercolor portraits of Virginia Indians and scenes of their lives and activities.
Little is known about White's early years except that he might have come from the English Midlands or Cornwall.

He married Thomasine Cooper in 1566 in Saint Martin, Lud