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White, John, active 1585-1593

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Personal name headingWhite, John, active 1585-1593
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Variant(s)White, John, fl. 1585-1593
With, Joannes, active 1585-1593
Beginning date1585
Ending date1593
Found inTarbox, I. Sir Walter Raleigh & his colony in America, 1884: index (White, Governor John)
Hulton, P.H. The Amer. drawings of John White, 1964: v. 1, p. 12-13 (one of many persons of same name in the artist's time, and identification is uncertain; from what we know of his later life we can place his birth in the decade 1540-50 and his marriage between 1565 and 1570; evidence exists for activity in 1570s; there is no firm information on him until 1585) p. 21 (we know nothing further of his life after 2-4-1593)
White, J. America, 1585 : the complete drawings of John White / by Paul Hulton, c1984: p. 7 (there is no certain mention of the artist before 7-11-1585; identical with gov. of the 1587 Roanoke colony) p. 15 (last evidence of him is a letter of 2-4-1593)
WWW encyclopediavirginia.org, viewed Mar. 27, 2017 (John White; artist; possibly serves as an artist attached to Martin Frobisher's expedition to Greenland in search of the Northwest Passage to Cathay, or China; died either in England or on one of Sir Walter Raleigh's estates in Ireland in 1593)