6 ENGLISH ATTEMPTS TO or were exterminated by the savages. Notwithstand¬ ing this deplorable circumstance, he determined on planting a third colony, and left 115 people at the S »9 settlement. On the 13th of August this year, Manteo, ? the first Indian who became a Christian in Virginia, was baptized; and on the 18th of the same month, e| Mrs Dare was delivered of a daughter, whom she || called Virginia. This was the first child born of ft English parents in . What this colony suf¬ fered must have been truly distressing; for, when Governor White returned in 1590 with necessary supplies for them, not an individual was to be found. They must either have perished for want of food, or they were more probably put to death, under the most horrible tortures, by the Indians. , Hitherto, every attempt made by any European nation to settle , proved unsuccessful, except „»no the part of Spain; and in 1602, there was not an f,| European in all . Two years after¬ wards, De Monts succeeded in forming a settlement in Nova Scotia , which was the first that became permanent. Companies were formed in and Plymouth, under patent from King James I ., to plant colonies in ; and Mr Percy , brother of the then Duke of Northumberland, went out to Virginia, in 1606, and discovered James's River. In the following year, the Company sent to Virginia three vessels under the command of Captain Christopher Newport , who gave the name of to the most southerly point, and began a set¬ tlement at James's River.