I spent the day at U.Va. getting chemo and just got in to over 70  
messages in my inbox, many from the group and many with the heading  
about my 40% figure. No time or energy to read them all right now. I  
came across it while doing research for my book, it was along the  
lines of "it is estimated that as many as 40% if the early Englishmen  
may have married native women". So the qualifiers are 'estimated',  
'as many as', and 'may have married.' I'll go thru my stack of books  
in the next few days and find the attribution. Of course the author  
may have been reading something into the figures, but I'm just saying  
what I read; but Kelso and others have been amazed to find that the  
natives lived in much more intimate proximity to the settlers in the  
James Fort than they had ever guessed, there were many signs of  
Indian life inside the fort, relics, tools, even campfires.

Nancy

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I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

--Daniel Boone

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