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  VIRGINIA DARE

  A Romance of the Sixteenth Century

  BY

  E. A. B. S.,

  AUTHOR OF “CECIL’S STORY OF THE DOVE,” “STORIES OF
  EASTER-TIDE,” ETC.


  NEW YORK:
  THOMAS WHITTAKER
  2 AND 3 BIBLE HOUSE
  1892




  COPYRIGHT, 1892,
  BY THOMAS WHITTAKER.




  GRATEFULLY DEDICATED TO OUR RECTOR
  AND FRIEND,

  Reverend Joseph Carey, D.D.,

  OF

  SARATOGA SPRINGS.




PREFACE.


The author would like to remind the readers of the romance of Virginia
Dare, that if they go back in memory to their schooldays, and the
details of their American history, they will remember that Governor
White sailed for England from Roanoke on the 28th of Augu