[HPforGrownups] Off topic - Pocahontas

[Alix Petty]

No: HPFGUIDX 4850


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From: Susan McGee <Schlobin at aol.com>
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Subject: [HPforGrownups] Off topic - Pocahontas


> 1595? - 1617
>
> Pocahontas wasn't even her real name. It was a nickname meaning
> Playful one" bestowed by her father. Her tribal name was Matoaka.

> In 1617, John Rolfe was appointed secretary of the Virginia colony.
> They boarded a ship for Virginia. While the ship was still anchored
> in the Thames, Pocahontas became ill and died.

Yup, at Gravesend, just down the road from me.  She's buried at one of the
churches there, but I don't know which one, and even if I did, it wouldn't
help, as even the church authorities don't know where exactly she is buried.

 > Thomas, Pocahontas' son grew up in England raised by an uncle, and
> returned to the U.S. as an adult. His descendants are said to have
> included the Virginia Jeffersons, Lees, Randolphs and Marshalls.

Actually, I was reading an article the other day about someone who is
related to Pocahontas through her US ancestors, and can't for the devil of
me remember who it was.  Genealogy is fascinating stuff, though.

Alix