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What are the references or documentation for her wedding?  Whether
English or Native American...?

On 2/27/07, Holly Mills <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In a message dated 2/27/07 5:15:01 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
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> > Are you assuming it was an English or Anglican wedding rather than a
> > Native American Wedding?
>
> During her "captivity" Rolfe was instrumental in teaching her about
> Christianity as he knew it from his own tradition, i.e., C of E.
>
> I expect her baptism was a traditional Anglican baptism for that time as
> well.
>
> Flowers?  Certain flowers and herbs were traditionally associated with
> weddings, but as to their availability in seventeenth Virginia tidewater, I will
> gladly defer to a botanical historian.
>
> Holly Mills
> Amherst
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