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From: Sunshine49 <>
Subject: Re: [VIRGINIA-INDIAN-SURNAMES] Help with Collins PLEASE!
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:43:01 -0500
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Spanish spies reported that about 50% the earliest settlers at
Jamestown had taken Indian wives, and Kelso's excavations there show
this to be probable, there were Indian campfires, food, storage, and
various things, indicating they lived inside the fort far more
extensively than the experts had thought. This would be easily
explained if half the men there had native wives. In 1624 there were
1,292 settlers in Virginia; just 244 were female, and this included
female children. A couple had a 1 in 3 chance of living together 10
years before death claimed one of them. Men usually had a succession
of wives, the death rate for women was so high.

There were also many marriages of native girls into well-known
families. Mary Kittimaquund was the daughter of a chief [or "king"]
of the Piscataway in Maryland. She became a ward of Governor Calvert
of Md. and in 1644 married Giles Brent. The Curtis family in Virginia
claim descent from a Potowomack Indian girl names Ontonah. She was
seized when her tribe was massacred in Stafford County in 1666 by
local citizens and the Rappahannock Militia. Some women and children
were spared and taken into captivity. She was adopted by the Curtis
family [she was a little girl at the time], and Christianized and
given the name Elizabeth. She later married a son of the family, John
Curtis. I think these intermarriages went on a lot more than many
historians admit. And yes, there are the many thousands of people who
descend from John Rolfe and Pocahontas, including my husband!

Nancy

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On Jan 2, 2008, at 8:47 PM, wrote:

> I have promised myself to be nice today.
>
> Allow me to tell you a story. My grandfather, ROBERT LEE GORDON was
> born at
> Gordonsville , Orange County, VA.In my quest to find out why he had
> that name
> and why he named my father Alfred LEE GORDON, I researched the name
> Lee and
> Gordon.In the process I did join the Lee @rootsweb group. The Doctor
> ( Of the
> Lee Society) and I ended in some sort of dispute when I mentioned
> Indian
> Blood. I was told there "is no Indian Blood". Well if one takes
> the search
> further, it is found that Lee and Carter are probably the most
> named Indians on the
> Indian Rolls.
>
> I noticed your name "CARTER".
>
> ( King )Carter settled in an Indian area. All of Virginia was an
> Indian
> area. There was a shortage of white women. There is a picture of
> Mrs Carter on
> line somewhere if your curious. Robert E Lee was part Native
> American and his
> cousin who became his wife was a Carter, a direct descendant of
> Pocahontas.
> They originally owned the Arlington National Cemetery. That was
> Robert E Lee's
> boyhood home.His mother was there in the first grave until he had
> her moved
> to the Lee University with the rest of the family.
>
> Most people who originated, after the invasion,in Virginia have Indian
> Blood.It cost about 4000 pounds of Tabacco to get a marriage
> license from the
> Virginia Courts.The Indians did not have such a system.
>
> Barb
>
>
>
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