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From: "Maxine Baldwin Westerfield" <>
Subject: [BALDWIN-L] Fw: Powhatan's babygirl Pocahantas
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 20:11:53 -0700


The last paragraph date of when book was written was 1923 and not 1823.
Soory. Now corrected.
Repost as several lost message. Please print and keep and add forthcoming
cont. parts with surnames wanted then. This book is not indexed. So give
all specifics ref. to name so to make it easier to find as time permits.
Maxine

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From: Maxine Baldwin Westerfield <>
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Date: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 9:02 PM
Subject: Powhatan's babygirl

> Hi Listers;
>
>Begining of Pocahantas.
>John White, first govenor of Va, the honor conferred on him, the=rough
>influence of Captain Jokn Smith whom the Virgin Queen of England had given
>charter : as Smith had been wounded in a poder explosion and was compelled
>to return to England to be doctored. Eleanor White , dau of Govenor John
>White had married James Dare in England.
>James Dare and wife, Eleanor were attractedby Sir Walter Raleigh's gloind
>accounts of marvelousnew beginings and resources in America, and with many
>others sailed from Englandin 1589 to what is now known athe state of Va and
>setled on theJames River and formed the second colonyof Jamestown.
>The ship was commanded by John White who became the Gov of Va. He ws the
>father of Eleanor White Dare. One historian says Mrs Dare was the only
>woman and a later one says there were 17 women in the colony.
>In 1596 a little dau. was born to James and Eleanor White Dare and was
>christened Virginia in honor of the Virgin Queen of England. in a short
>time afer the birth of little Virginia, her mother and father were stricken
>and died of the swamp fever which soon depopulated the whole colony.
>As the last white man felt the deadly fever coming on him., he gave
>thelittle Virginia to an Indian squaw, with his dying blessing on them
both.
>The squaw carried the babe to her chief and reverently laid her gift at his
>feet. The mighty Chief adopted her into his own family and named her
>Matox, as he had no dau. of his own. He was proud and raised her in
Indian
>style and she grew and was loved by the whole Indian Tribe , who
>accepted her as Chief Powhatan's dau.
>It was Virginia who saved the life of Capt. John Smith, also the 3rd
>settlement of Jamestown from a total massacre. John Smith said in one of
>his books that Pocahontas was next to God as a savior
>Pocahontas was captured by Capt. Argal when 18 yrs of age and taken to a
>white settlement at Jamestown, where she remained until after her marriage
>to John Rolfe and went with him to England. She has traveled 12 miles at
>night barefoot to warn the Jamestown of Chief Powhattan's plan to of a
>massacure.
>When the Chief Pohattan felt he must die , he conveyed his posessions to
his
>only siste and brothers , except some land in Virginia in 1622 which was
>left to Thomas Rolfe, son of his adopted dau. Pocahantas.
>When Pocahantas was stolen and taken to Jamestown she was baptised in a
>little church and recieved the Chritian name of Rebecca. She mar. John
>Rolfe at Jamestown in 1613. and lived there 3 yrs. They had a son amed
>Thomas Smith Rolfe . In 1616the Rolfe family went to England.
>The Queen and King and all were charmed to haaaaaaaave them there.and
called
>he Lady Rebecca.
>But John Rolfe desired to return to America and soon after they set sail,
>Rebecca develloped small pox and was so sich they went ashore at
>Gravesends, where she died and burried there. He inscription can be read to
>this day, (printed in 1923). London Chronicle claims the St George's
Churchm
>claims Honor of her Burial and in it's Parish registry contains the
>following entry, " Rebecca Wrothe, wyffe of John Wrothe,a Virginian. The
>Lady borne here was buried in ye Channel".
>So Pocahontas was not a Myth.
>The next post will be gin with the only Child, Thomas Rolfe who married
Jane
>Poythress in 1638. Some historians claim 12 children to them but as of
this
>date only 3 have been found. (Book printed in 1823).
>
>The Barnetts come in after this but I have not come across any Baldwin's
as
>yet. There is pages and pages of Gen without many dates etc untill
>later. I thought about making a chart showing these families but it will
be
>very time consuming. One thing adding to this all in Ther4 IS NO INDEX
and
>we all know what a book is like without an Index.
>It has been quite a while since I read this and I didn't read only to the
>Barnett's. As I come to these names I will put them here and you an copy
>and keep. There is abt 50 pages with paragraph after paragraph of This
one
>mar that one and they had children and going on to those named etc.
>
> Maxin in Wa
>
>

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