John white colonist biography of martin
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Early Years and Education
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, Ludgate, within sight of Saint Paul’s Cathedral in the City of London; the couple had a son, Thomas, born April 27, 1567, who died in infancy. A daughter, Elinor, was christened in Saint Martin on May 9, 1568. She married Ananias Dare in Saint Clement Danes, Westminster, on June 24, 1583.
In 1576–1577, after a period spent studying art, White may have participated in one of several expeditions to Greenland led by Martin Frobisher, an Englishman searching for the Northwest Passage. European explorers and colonizers routinely hired artists to create a visual record of the New World, and White’s several illustrations of the Inuit people were skilled enough to recommend him to Walter Raleigh, who, beginning in 1583, lived in Durham House, a mansion on the Thames River granted hi
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John White (colonist and artist)
English governor of the Roanoke Colony (1587 to 1590)
For information about other persons with the name John White, see John vit (disambiguation).
John White | |
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The return of Governor vit to the "Lost Colony" | |
| Born | c. 1539 London, England |
| Died | c. 1593 (aged c. 54) |
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| Spouse | Tomasyn Cooper (m. 1566) |
| Children | Eleanor and 1 son |
| Patron(s) | Sir Walter Raleigh |
John White (c. 1539–c. 1593) was an English colonial governor, explorer, artist, and cartographer. vit was among those who sailed with Richard Grenville in the first attempt to colonize Roanoke Island in 1585, acting as artist and mapmaker to the expedition. He would most famously briefly serve as the governor of the second attempt to found Roanoke Colony on the same island in 1587 and discover the colonists had mysteriously vanished.
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By Michaela Ann Cameron
Supported by a Royal Australian Historical Society Heritage Grant – St. John’s First Fleeters
Death or Liberty
While white American patriots were crying ‘Give me liberty, or give me death’ and fighting Great Britain for their God-given, ‘unalienable rights’ to ‘Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness,’ thousands of the liberty-loving patriots’ black slaves were running to the British lines for their own chance at freedom.[1] It is thought John Martin may have been among them, as historian Cassandra Pybus has asserted in her 2006 book Black Founders: The Unknown Story of Australia’s First Black Settlers.[2] Around twenty years of age at the time, Martin was young and his skills as a seaman would have been particularly useful to the Loyalist cause. If Martin was, indeed, recruited by the British, he would have been in a prime position to get out of America on a British ship bound for England.
In England, Martin’s plac