A Nansemond Indian woman married John Bass in 1638. Their descendants lived 
among the English in Norfolk County. Nansemond culture did not work in those 
surroundings, so her descendants, and probably she as well, adopted English 
ways. Why would that Nansemond Indian woman's culture have had a stronger 
effect on her descendants than the more recent marriage in 1729 to a free 
African American woman?

If the family had maintained a strong Indian culture, why did they not marry 
other Indians instead of light-skinned African Americans and whites?
Paul