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John White fl. 1585-93, artist, cartographer, and Virginia pioneer, b. probably in England. In 1585 he was commissioned to go with the expedition to Roanoke Island to depict life in the New World. His paintings provide some of the earliest and most valuable source materials on the natural history of the North American continent. It is believed, though by no means proved, that he is the same John White whom Sir Walter Raleigh appointed governor of the second Roanoke colony in 1587.

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White, John (fl.1585–93), Virginia colonist, noted for his watercolors of the flora and fauna of America, and of the native Indians, published to illustrate the Briefe and True Report of …Virginia by Thomas Hariot (1590). A John White, considered to be the same man, was Raleigh's governor of the Roanoke colony (1587) and Hakluyt published his account of a voyage to Virginia (1590).

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