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Thomas Harriot cartographer
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Judith Bailey Gabor <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:28:04 -0800
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I am interested in the first use of the word VIRGINIA to describe the 
colony in the new world.

Capt John White’s daughter gave birth in 1587 - during a Walter Raleigh 
expedition - to Virginia Dare, the first English child born in America. 
In grade school I learned that she was named for Elizabeth, the Virgin 
Queen.

The recent discourse on Thomas Harriot stated that in 1586, he wrote /A 
Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia/ which was 
published in 1588.

Does someone know definitively the earliest known written reference to 
the term VIRGINIA?

Thanks - Judith B. Gabor

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