Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-04-22

was safely conducted to lcmes toune,
where / found about eight and thir.ie mi
SCRABBLE psore and sickle creatures, to keep
possession of all those large territories OF
Virginia, such was the weaknesse of this
poore commonwealth, as had the saluages
not fed us, we directly had starued.
"And this reliefe, most gracious Queene,
was commonly brought VS. by this lady
Pocuhontas, notwithstanding all these pas
sages, when inconstant fortune turned our
peace to ware, this tender virgin would
still not spare to dare to visit VS., and by
her our iarres haue beene oft appeased,
and our wants still supplied were it the
policie OF her father, thus to implsy her,
or the ordinance of God thus to make her
his instrument, or her extraordinarie at
lection to our nation, know not; but OF
this am sure when her father with the
Utmost policie and power, sought to sur
prize NEE. hauing but eighteene with NEE,
the darke night could not alright her from
comming through the irksome woods. and
with watered eies gaue me intelligence,
with her best aduice to escape his fu'
RE which had hee known, hee had surely
slaine her. lanes towne with her wilde
traine she as freely frequented, as her Ia
theirs babitation5 and during the time OF
two or three yeeres, she next vnder God
was still the instrument to preserue this
colonie from death, famine and vtter con-
fusion, which if in those times had been
DISSOLVED, Virginia might haue line as it
was at our first arrival to this day. Since
then this business hauing beene turned and
varied by many accidents from that left
it at it is most certaine, after long and
troublesome ware after my departure,
betwixt her father and our colonie, all
which time she was not heard Of about
two yeeres after she her selfe was taken
prisoner, being SO detained neere two
yeeres longer; the colonie by that means
was relieued, peace concluded, and at last
rejecting her barbarous condition, was
married to an English gentleman, with
whom at this present she is ir England (;
the first christian of that nation, the
first Virgin;an euer spake in English, or
had chllde in marriage by an English
| man, a matter surely, if my meaning bee
truly considered and well understood, wor-
thy a princess understanding.
"Thus most gracious Lady, haue rela-
| ted to your Majestic, what a: your best
leasure our approved histories will accouli,
you at large, and done in the time of your
Maiesties life, & howeur this might be pre-
sented you from more worthy pen. it can
not from more honest heart: as yet | neur
begged any thing of the state, or any, and
, il is my want of abilitie and her exceeding
! desert, your birth, means and authorize,
hir birth vertue, want of simplicitie, doth
| make NEE thus bold, to beseech your Mai
este to take this knowledge of her, though
! it be from one so unworthy to be the repor-
ter, as my selfe, her husbands estate moi
being able to make her fit to attend your
Majestic: the most and least can Go, is to
f! tell you this, because none so oft hath tried
| it as myse!te, and the rather being OF SO
great spirit, how euer her stature: il she
should not be well receiued, seeing this
kingdome may rightly haue kingdone by
her meanes: her present loue to vs. and
Christianitie, might turn to such scorne and
furie, as to diuerte all this good to the wors,
of euill, where finding SO great Queene
| should doe her some honor more than she
can imagine, for being SO kind to your ser.
uants and subjects would so rauish her with
content, as endeare her dearest bloud tc
effect that your Majestic and all the kings
honest subjects most earnestly desire. Ano
SO humbly kisse your gracious hands,"
"Being about this time preparing to SCI
sale tor, New- England, could not stay tc
4 doe her that service desired, and sbee well
deserved: but hearing shee was at Bron-
ford with diuers of my friends, went tc
see her: After modest salutation, without
any word, she turned about obscured bel
1 face, as not seeming well contented; and
and in that bpmour her husband, with diueF!
others, we all left her two or three houres
| repenting my selfe to have writ she coulc
speake English. But not long after, SHE
| began 10 talk; and remembered NEE wei
what courtesies she had done /: saying, 70,
| Al x,.orn;co pn-nhnfnn what yzas suour