In South Carolina. 15 



Having made a vain search for the colonists, and be- 

 ing unwilling to abandon the enterprise, he left (1586) 

 fifteen of his mariners to keep possession until they 

 could be reinforced. This little band had disappeared, 

 murdered it was believed by the Indians, when in the 

 next year (1587) a fresh party of one hundred and 

 seventeen arrived. Here soon afterward were laid, in 

 honor of the proprietor, the foundations of the " City of 

 Raleigh," and here the first English child destined 

 to see the light in America was born. She was the 

 daughter of Ananias Dare, and the granddaughter of 

 John White, governor of the colony, who gave her 

 the name of Virginia. The one hundred and eighteen 

 disappeared like the fifteen mariners of Grenville, and, 

 though sought for at various times, were never heard 

 of more. Raleigh lost heart, as well as means, having 

 expended about two hundred thousand dollars in 

 efforts to plant his colony, and made over his patent 

 to a number of persons (1589), who, with less enter- 

 prise than he, met with still less success ; and Carolina 

 continued but a waste as far as English settlements 

 were concerned, and Virginia but a name. 



In 1630 a patent for the territory between the thirty- 

 first and thirty-sixth parallels of latitude was granted 

 to Robert Heath, and in 1639 permanent settlements 

 were planned and attempted, but without success. 

 Some New Englanders, "in 1661, or thereabouts," 

 entered the Cape Fear River, and, purchasing from 

 the Indians a title to the soil, planted an infant settle- 

 ment on Oldtown Creek, near the south side of the 

 Cape Fear, but returning home after a few years, 

 "spread a reproach on the harbor and the soil." 



In the third year after the restoration of the royal 

 government in England, all previous patents having 



