I'd still love to know how genuine this English Pocahontas line is. I  
suppose it's entirely possible it's the real thing, and nobody on  
this side of The Pond ever thought to look before. But I also know  
how easy it is to push your "facts", or to simply get confused with  
similar names or dates, esp. when it comes to genealogy.

Nancy

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

--Daniel Boone



On Mar 14, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Brent Tarter wrote:

> Nancy wrote,
>
> "ok... so my sources had it wrong..."
>
> Unfortunately, quite a lot of secondary sources on our bookshelves  
> have
> wrong statements in them. It pays to go to the most authoritative
> secondary sources first and then, if possible, to the actual primary
> sources, not just what somebody once said about them. As we saw the
> other day when the case of Richard Cornish came up, large issues can
> hinge on the interpretation of very fine points in the original  
> records,
> and what people say about the records is not always entirely correct.
>
> Those of us who are working on the volumes of the Dictionary of  
> Virginia
> Biography wish that we were already down to the letter R and could  
> speak
> with confidence on all of the sources relating to his life. We do know
> that he was not a member of the governor's Council or a burgess,  
> either
> one.
>
> The DVB entry on Robert Bolling (1646-1709) cites evidence in  
> Bolling's
> own handwriting (here in the Library of Virginia, as it happens)  
> for his
> marriage to Jane Rolfe, daughter of Thomas Rolfe, son of John and  
> Rebeca
> (a.k.a. Pocahontas) Rolfe.
>
> Brent Tarter
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