July Sixteenth
I shall yet live to see it an English nation.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Raleigh’s first colony arrives at Roanoke Island, 1584
July Seventeenth
KIN
A visitor in the Old Chapel Graveyard, in Clarke County, Virginia, asked the aged negro sexton if he knew the whereabouts of a certain grave, adding that the deceased was her relative.
“Ole Mis’ Anne? Why ob cose I knows whar my ole mistis is! She your gran’ma! Jus’ to think now, if you hadn’t spoke we never would have knowed we was related!”