• General Notes

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  [Br²derbund WFT Vol. 5, Ed. 1, Tree #0725, Date of Import: Apr 16, 2002]
  
  An American Indian princess, Pocahontas, b. c.1595, d. March 21, 1617,
  suposedly saved the life of Capt. John Smith and befriended the English
  colony at Jamestown, Va. A daughter of Powhatan, chief of the Powhatan
  confederacy of Virginia, she was said to have been beautiful and
  intelligent. Her personal clan name was Matoaka.
  In 1608, Smith, who had helped establish the English settlement at
  Jamestown, was captured by the Indians and brought to Pocahonta's
  village, about 24km (15 mi) from Jamestown. According to Smith's account
  in his Generall Historie of Virginia (1624), he was set before an altar
  stone to be killed but was spared when Pocahontas threw herself over his
  body. Many historians have been skeptical about Smith's story, however,
  Pocahontas then became the intermediary between the Englishman and her
  father and reportedly persuaded Powhatan to bring food to the starving
  colonists.
  In 1613, Pocahontas was seized by Capt. Samuel Argall and taken to
  Jamestown and then to the new community of Henrico. From the Reverend
  Alexander Whitaker she learned the elements of Chrisianity and became a
  convert. Pocahontas alsto learned the ways of the English, and in 1614,
  with her father's approval, she married John Rolfe, a successful tobacco
  planter. The marriage initiated an eight-year period of peaceful
  relations between Indians and settlers. A boy christend Thomas, was born
  to the couple in 1615. The following year Pocahontas (now Lady Rebecca
  Rolfe), here family, and an Indian retinue voyaged to England. Pocahontas
  charmed London society and was entertained at the royal palace at
  Whitehall. While preparing to return to the New World, she was overcome
  by illness and died.

Details of Pocahontas' family with John Rolfe