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 ------- I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. --Daniel Boone To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html