William Gaston

Historical marker location:

New Bern, North Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of Broad Street (Business U.S. 17) and Craven Street, on the right on Broad Street.)

Marker installed: 2009

1778-1844.

The first English child born in the New World, Virginia Dare, was born in what is now Roanoke Island, North Carolina, in 1587.