Nancy Ward, Cherokee, buried in Polk County TN, had a white husband
Bryant Ward, who was from Virginia, much later in time than the
1600s...but he also had a white family in VA...Nancy and Bryant had a
daughter named Elizabeth Ward, she married Brig Gen Joseph Martin, I
believe it was...

So later in time, it might have become more common....but still into
the early 1800s it was considered outrageous for a Native to marry a
white...

On 2/28/07, Tom Apple <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:35:19 +0000, Emily Rose wrote
>
> > It is not clear that many other Englishmen did want to do the same.
> > Can anyone document a single marriage of an English male to a Native
> > female in Virginia  in the decade following the Pocahontas-Rolfe wedding?
>
> Not during the *next* decade but John Bass (Basse) married a Nansemond Indian
> convert named Elizabeth in 1638. All the existing Nansemond Indian
> descendants are from that union. That marriage is documented in the family
> sermon book which still exists and is in possession of the chief.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom A.
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