<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> <P> Hélène Desportes is often cited as the first white child born in New France, in what would later be Canada . She was born probably 1620, to Pierre Desportes and Françoise Langlois, although there is some disagreement about whether she was born in Quebec or before her family arrived on the continent in 1614 . Hélène's maternal aunt was the mother of Eustache Martin, born in October 1621 in Quebec to Abraham Martin and Marguerite Langlois . </P> <P> Jonathan Guy, the son of Newfoundland settler Nicholas Guy, was the first child born to Anglophone parents in Canada, and one of the first born in any part of North America within a permanent settlement . He was born on 27 March 1613 in Cuper's Cove, a settlement that has been continuously occupied since 1610 and where his family remained long after his birth </P> <P> At Port Royal, Acadia in 1636, Pierre Martin and Catherine Vigneau, who had arrived on the passenger ship Saint Jehan along with 78 other migrants, were the first European parents to have a child in Acadia . The first - born child was Mathieu Martin . In part because of this distinction, Mathieu Martin later became the Seigneur of Cobequid (1699). </P>

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