The Princess Pocahontas Pocahontas, Alias Matoaka, and Her Descendants
Reproduced from the original photo of 1S87 THE PRINCESS POCAHONTAS POCAHONTAS, ALIAS MATOAKA, AND HER DESCENDANTS THROUGH HER MARRIAGE AT Jamestown, Virginia, in April, 1614, WITH JOHN ROLFE, GENTLEMAN; INCLUDING THE NAMES OP ALFRIEND, ARCHER, BENTLEY, BERNARD, BLAND, BOLLING, BRANCH, CABELL, CATLETT, CARY, DANDRIDGE, DIXON, DOUGLAS, DUVAL, ELDRIDGE, ELLETT, FERGUSON, FIELD, FLEMING, GAY, GORDON, GRIFFIN, GRAYSON, HARRISON, HUBARD, LEWIS, LOGAN, MARKHAM, MEADE, MCRAE, MURRAY, PAGE, POY- THRESS, RANDOLPH, ROBERTSON, SKIPWITH, STANARD, TAZEWELL, WALKE, WEST, WHIT TLE, AND OTHERS. WITH Biographical Sketches BY WYNDHAM ROBERTSON, AND ILLUSTRATIVE HISTORICAL NOTES BY R. A. BROCK J. W. RANDOLPH & ENGLISH, PUBLISHERS AND BOOKSELLERS, 1302 MAIN ST., RICHMOND, VA. 1887. Reprinted by JARMAN'S, iNCOIEI'dltATKD from the 1SS7 Edition for THE GREEN BOOKMAN Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1887, by WYNDHAM ROBERTSON In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. PREFACE. I offer to the narrow circle it may interest, as well as I have been able to restore it, the Tree of Pocahontas and Rolf e, as it has grown from them as its root to its seventh season (inclu sive) of fruitage. I accompany it with illustrative sketches of some of its notable products, within my reach, in order to relieve the blankness of it, by revealing something of its in ward succulence as well as its outward form. I have conden sed them as much as in my view consisted with my object, knowing how insignificant the whole matter is amid the great surges of the world it is thrown upon. The notice of Poca hontas is exceptionally long for reasons apparent on the face of it, involving, as it does, incidentally, the vindication of Captain Smith against the unfriendly strictures of some mod ern critics, and which all lovers of justice will thank me for introducing.
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