Chapter 2: When Worlds Collide ? Outline ? The English and the Algonquians at Roanoke In 1590, Governor John White returned to Roanoke Island, where he had left the first English colonists three years ago, in search of the 115 colonists; mostly single men, but also twenty families, including White?s daughter, son-in-law, and Virginia Dare, the first English baby born in North America. He found the colonists? houses taken down and their possessions scattered, but saw ?CROATOAN? on a trunk, the name of a friendly village, and set sail for the village.?