Ananias Dare

Ananias Dare
Baptism of Virginia Dare lithograph with Ananias Dare in the center (1880)
Born
Ananias Dare

c. 1560
DiedAfter 27 August 1587, presumably before 18 August 1590 (aged 27–30)
unknown
Occupationunknown
Known forColonist of the Lost Roanoke Colony
SpouseEleanor White
ChildrenVirginia Dare

Ananias Dare (c. 1560 – 1587, legal death) was a colonist of the Roanoke Colony of 1587. He was the husband of Eleanor White, whom he married at St Bride's Church[1] in London, and the father of Virginia Dare, the first English child born in America. The details of Dare's death are still unknown.


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