Wasn't Pocahontas' mother of the Patawomeck tribe?

Nancy

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On Feb 13, 2007, at 2:45 PM, Tom Apple wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:22:13 -0500, Anne Pemberton wrote
>
>> The list of truck goods is very helpful. Can you suggest what the
>> value of, say some hoes and some scissors and maybe some pretty
>> beads would be in baskets of corn?
>
> Making a rough guess, I'd say probably one to two dozen.
>
> From Strachey, here's a description of trade between Samuel Argall  
> and the
> Patawomeck [Potomac] tribe in 1610. Argall is getting 400 bushels  
> plus furs
> for 40 shillings (2 pounds) worth of trade goods. Bear in mind  
> though, he has
> to go all the way up the Potomac River to Aquia Creek to get it at  
> tha rate. I
> would imagine the exchange rate being more favorable to the Indians  
> the closer
> you got  to Jamestown.
>
> "Within this river, Captain Samuell Argoll in a small river which  
> the Indians
> call Quiho, anno 1610, trading in a bark called the Discovery for  
> corn with
> the great king of Patawomeck, from him obtained well near 400  
> bushels of wheat
> [corn], peas, and beans, beside many furs for 9 lbs. of copper, 4  
> bunches of
> beads, 8 dozen hatchets, five dozen knives, 4 bunches of bells, one  
> dozen
> scissors - all not much more than 40 shillings English; as also  
> from the
> king's brother, I-Opassus, king of a place called Pastanzo, [he]  
> recovered an
> English boy called Henry Spilman, who had lived amongest them one  
> whole year..."
>
> Regards,
>
> Tom A.
>
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