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Subject:	Re: Pocahontas's Wedding questions
From:	Tom Apple <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:46:50 -0330
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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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