Anne and Bernie,
    I would like to make a correction on one item of Bernie's otherwise
admirable history.  Jane Rolfe's husband was named Robert instead of John.
Col. Robert Bolling was the first of his family in Virginia and a close
neighbor of Nathaniel Bacon.  Jane died in childbirth in 1676, the same year
as Bacon's Rebellion.  Robert and Jane's plantation was located very close
the area that would become City Point,(now Hopewell), VA.  Hope this helps.

Andrew Means


>From: Anne Pemberton <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
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>Subject: Re: Pocahontas
>Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 17:25:02 -0400
>
>Bernie,
>
>         Thanks you for the information. Most sources I've read put the
>birth of Pocahontas as 1595, so that she was twelve when she met John
>Smith. Your dates would make her 10-11 instead. Thanks for the definitive
>date of April 5th for her marriage. By your birth date, she married John
>Rolfe when she was 14 instead of the 17 most sources indicate. Many sources
>suggest an earlier marriage to Kocoum of the Potomac tribe prior to her
>being taken captive at Jamestown.
>
>         The tribal name Matoko is also spelled variously as Matoaka,
>Matoaca, and Matoax. One site said that her tribal name means "Little Snow
>Feather". I prefer the definition of the name Pocahontas as "playful one"
>over some others given such as "wanton one".  A book I read to my class
>today suggested that Pocahontas' name suggested she was allowed to play
>with the boys rather than work with the other girls in the tribe. Most
>sources suggest that Pocahontas was pretty, attractive, comely, or "of
>pleasant countenance", but a Cherokee-raised child in Alabama informs that
>she was ugly and had a buzz haircut.
>
>         Of great curiosity is the illness which took her life. I've read
>it was smallpox, tuberculosis, or other unnamed diseases. All agree it was
>a disease of European origin to which she had no resistance. But the
>specific disease seems a matter of opinion.
>
>         The attempt to make this project authentic, and to please everyone
>(most everyone?) seems to be getting further away rather than closer. What
>a fascinating subject this is becoming!
>
>                                 Anne
>
>
>
>
>At 04:43 PM 10/8/02 -0400, you wrote:
>>HOwdy:
>>
>>Pocahontas whose real name was Matoko, but was called Pocahontas which
>>means
>>the "Playful One" was born about 1596/97 at Werawocomoco. This is now
>>Wicomico, Glouchester Co., Virginia. She was a younger and  favorite
>>daughter
>>of Chief Powhatan of the Federation of Algonquian Tribes. Pocahontas
>>married
>>John Rolfe on April 5, 1614 at the Jamestown Anglican Church.  Pocahontas
>>gave birth to a son Thomas Rolfe  who was born in 1615. He was the only
>>child
>>  and was raised in London, England  by his uncle  Henry Rolfe.  Thomas
>>returned to Virginia to live on his parents estate given  to them by Chief
>>Powhatan. Thomas married  Jane Poythress and they had only one dauthter
>>named
>>Jane Rolfe. Jane married  Col John Bolling and  died in childbirth giving
>>birth to their only son named John Bolling.
>>
>>Hope this is of intetest to some of the Virginia Researchers.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Bernie in Springfield, VA.
>>
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