<P> The birth of the first white child is a widely used concept to mark the establishment of a European colony in the New World, especially in the historiography of the United States . In Texas, the birth of the first white child is recorded in local histories on the county level . </P> <P> Snorri Thorfinnsson (probably born between 1005 and 1013) was the son of Thorfinnur Karlsefni and Gudrídur Þorbjarnardottir . Generally known to his contemporaries as Snorri Gudrídsson, as his mother outlived his father, was born in Vinland, making him the first European documented to be born in North America . </P> <P> Martín de Argüelles, Jr., born in the Spanish colony of St. Augustine, Florida, was the first white child known to be born in what is now the continental United States . Born in 1566, his father was a hidalgo and one of the expeditioners who went to New Spain with Captain General Pedro Menéndez de Avilés in 1565 . St. Augustine, Florida, is also the oldest continuously occupied European - founded city anywhere in the United States excluding Puerto Rico . </P> <P> Virginia Dare, born in 1587 at the Roanoke Colony, was the first child born in North America to English parents, and her memory was celebrated in the British colonies . Peregrine White, born aboard the Mayflower at Provincetown Harbor in 1620, was the first Pilgrim birth . Sarah Rapelje, born on June 6, 1625, was the first white child born in New Netherland in what is now New York state . Born in 1659, Kristian Gaapstörm was the first white child born in New Sweden . </P>

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