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Anne Burras is a member of the following lists: People from James City County, Virginia, Year of birth unknown and English emigrants.

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Anne Burras was the first unmarried English woman in the New World known to have survived. She was also the first English woman to marry in the New World and the first to give birth to a known surviving child in the New World. She arrived in Jamestown on September 30, 1608 on the Mary and Margaret, the ship bringing the Second Supply, as a 14-year-old maid to Martha Forrest. Martha's first name was thought to have been lost in history until a grave was found in VA. We now know her first name is Margaret (Martha) Forrest, formerly Margaret Foxe. Anne and Margaret were the first two English women in Jamestown. Martha Forrest was ill from the crossing and did not live long in Virginia. Reportedly she died within the month. Anne was married in November to John Laydon, a carpenter who came on the Susan Constant in May 1607. Their marriage was the occasion of much festivity in spite of the bleak conditions.