The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1869-12-30

ambition and few scruplcs. who thought to
| Judge from the narrative written by John
| Hamor, secretary to the colony, that by his
marriage with Powhatan's daughter lone
| of rude education, manners barbarous, and
cursed generation" he could advance the
| ''good and honor of the plantation and
who, from his subsequent proceedings, en-
tertained an idea that he might through her
put in formidable claim to the lands over
which her father hunfcd-that the best way
to secure Powhatan would be to marry his
daughter to himself
Sir John Dale seems to have thought this
rather a noble act of self-sacrfice, and Pow
hatan who had Just sold Pocahontas's sister
for two bushels Of beads-entirely consent
to the marriage, and sent witnesses to see the
ceremony, which, it appears, greatly scandal
lied the English, whether because Rofe was
already married. or they dsliked such unions,
cannot now be made out Nor can it be as
certainsd whether any legal marriage ever
took place, though Pocahontas was undoubt-
eddy represented in Europe as Rolfe's wife.
At all events it appears to have struck him and
others that the 'sNirginian Princess'' could be
used with effect to advance more money to the
plantation, and she was sent by the governor,
Sir Thomas Dale, to England in the following
| year, where she created no small sensation.
1t was the interest OF the settlers to eXalt her
dignity and they did it so cffectually that, al
| though sometimes described as 1.-THE woman
| Pocahontas," the Privy Council held 4 meet
ing to dicuss whether Rolle ought not to be
tried for high treason in mari wing her, and
Simons de Passe, the artist, wrote under her
portrait: ''A1atoaks ais Rcbecka her ma
| tive and Christian names daughter to the
mighty Prince Powhatan Empcrour Of Alta
noughkornouck ais Virginia." The picture
| oh T,,Ii
high check bones, gloomy face, and lanky
| hair, some thirty years Of age-she was only
eighteen, and who never can have been Il
beauty dressed in a high felt hat, such as is
now worn in North Italy. and a broad white
ruff. She appears to have remained in Eng
land but :. few months, and was returning
| homewa;d when she died at Gravcsend, on
the DIST Of May, 1916 and was buried in the
chancel Of GrayeSend Church rs ''Rebec-
ca Wrothe," wife of Thomas Wrothc, gent, Il
| Virginia lady borne" No trace whatever of
her conversation or her character can be re-
covered, nor is there any evidence that she
was regarded in any other light than q con-
yeried Tasmanian OF Maori would now be-
that is, as a subject Of intellectual curiosity,
but little admiration. John Rolf, returned
to Virginia, and was appointed secretary to
the colony and apparently made a grand
spring at POWhatan's territory, for the Virgin
ia Company in 1918 sharply rebulled him for
reporting that the native were reserving the
country for his own child, (which we do sup
pose to be device ofyour own to some special
advantage for yourself'' They had 4 habit
of speaking plainly in those days, especially
to servants. Pocahontas had one son by
Rolte, who returned to Virginia. and seems
to have been recognized by the Indians as a
connection, and il was thro- this son that the
Indian blood entered the Virginian planting
families. An esteemed and industrious
mechanic" named Randolf, settled on the
James river, and his son Richard married
Miss Jane Boiling, great granddaughter, of
Pocahontas, and became the grandfather of
John Randolph of Ronoakc, the we'll known
Virginian, who it is said, considered this de-
scent the proudest among his endless claims
to the reverence Of his countrymen. The
whole story, we fear, is essentially unroman-
tic and commonplace; but there is little harm
done by telling it.