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My husband is also descended from Pocahontas and John Rolfe via the
Flemings, I don't have it all committed to memory, but his father (a
Harrison) was very interested in the family tree. Like the joke
warning goes: be careful what you say about somebody in Virginia; if
you go far enough back, they're all related to each other.
And don't we know it...
Nancy
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I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
--Daniel Boone
On Mar 14, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Randy Cabell wrote:
> As far as I know, the single largest compendium of the descendants
> of John Rolfe and Pocohantas is "Pocohantas and Her Descendants" by
> Stuart Brown of Berryville, VA. Stuart passed away ten or so years
> ago, but I believe continually updated the very large volume. It
> was primarily listings -- one liners of names -- but since I have
> donated my copy to The Cabell Foundation, I cannot look up anything
> else about it.
>
> Alexander Brown, in his 1896 classic, "The Cabells and Their Kin"
> goes into some detail about Pocohantas Rebecca Bolling who married
> into the Cabell family (or vice versa depending upon your vantage
> point). She was descended from Pocohontas. I know of one cousin
> who today lives in Utah who can trace his ancestry back along that
> line to Pocohantas.
>
> As Scott Breckinridge Smith pointed out, many Cabells and their Kin
> trace their ancestry back to the Jordan boys. Thomas came to
> Jamestown in 1624 and that much is pretty well documented. I
> believe it was Samuel who came over quite early, and in fact was in
> that shipwreck about which Shakespeare is said to have been
> inspired to write "The Tempest."
>
> And again, we have that lovely legend of Princes Nikittii marring
> 'an English Cavalier' and creating a dynasty of Virginians.
>
> Randy Cabell
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