The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-05-15

VICE I'm The NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. w
THE TowE OF HENRIco-JoHN RoLFE--
PocAHoNTAs--A YOUNGER DAUGHTER
oB PoWHhTAN DESIRED as a WIFE BY
81 pAlE-voY1GE TO ENGLAND OF DALE,
RoLFE. PocaHoNgAs, AND OF INDIAN
CHEZ AND MAIDENs-RARE BEN. JOHN
soNs MENTION pr VIRGINIA.
Thomas Dale had been soldier from his
youth. As early as 1883 he was with the
Earl OF Essex, Queen Eiizabeth's favorite,
in the wars OF fhe Continent. 1t is sup
posed that he accompanied the Dutch AM
bassador to the Court Of James the Sixth OF
Scotland, afterwards James the First Of
England. land then became interested In
Henry, the infant Prince OF Wales, whom
in later days he calls :. My glorious Mas
tel"
Upon the recommendation Of the King
OF France, in 1903 he was. elevated from
the position Of private soldier and COM
missioned as q captain In the army OF the
United Netherlands.
King James, by Secretary Cecil, in March,
1904, informed the English Ambassador
to the Netherlands that he wished him to
sstake notice OF Captain Dale, both for hav-
ing been avaliant and long servitor, and
having for the most part rendered them at
his charges"
In recognition OF bis valor be was knight
ed by the English King in June, 1905, as
Sir Thomas Dale Of Surry, and in the same
year. with Sir Thomas Gates, was in Sarri-
son in quiet town on the river lsell, about
eighteen miles from Rotterdam.
In zoos Gates left the Netherlands, early
the next year sailed for Virginia, in July
was wrecked at Bermudas, and not until
May, 1910, did he reach Jamestown. BY
order OF Lord Delaware in September OF
that year he arrived in London to procure
supplies and colonists.
Caron, the Dutch Ambassador, had pro-
posed that England and the States should
unite in colonizinS North America, and on
December Is, 1910, London correspond
emit OF Sir Ralph Winwood writes: $50
soon as the Hector, now ready to hoist sail,
shall be set forth OF this harbor towards
Virginia, Sir Thomas Gates will hasten to
the Hague, where he will confer with the
States about the overture OF Sir Noel Caron
hath here made for joining Us in that col
ony."
One OF the results Of Gates's visit was
that the States General Of United Neither
lands the next month, January, 1911, upon
the recommendation OF Henry, the young
be absent from their service for space OF
three years without any allowance, and In
the spring OF the same year he sailed with
colonists for Virginia.
Upon the 18th of May he arrived at
Jamestown, and found Lord Delaware abb
sent on account Of i'll health, and George
Percy Deputy Governor. Dale was de-
spondent when he saw the condition OF the
Colony. and felt that the London Company
had not given q fair description Of the coun-
try, and in an alteration with Captain New
port, pulled his beard, and threatened to
hang him. In the absence OF Gates he act
ed as Governor. he incorporated with the
already strict code part Of the law OF the
army in which he had served, and sent the
enlarged code to London by the hands OF
William Strachey, Secretary Of the. Colony,
for examination. The London Company
approved and had it printed and returned.
In August, 1911, about the time Strachey
left Virginia, he requested the authorities
in England to send out for three years ser
vice call conyicts condemned to die" al
leging that they were "not always the
the worst kind of men, either for birth,
spirit, or body"
Upon the return Of Gates be left James.
town, and about Michaelmas, with three
hundred persons, commenced the settle
ment Of Eenrico. His course was very Sc
we're, and it was charged that he broke some
on the wheel, hung others, and chained one
to tree until he starved to death. The
town was never built, and the few build
ings erected within pale OF four acres in
five years fell to pieces.
In 1913 Argall, under commission from
the Governor OF Virginia, proceeded to the
north Atlantic coast and attacked the French
upon the ground Of encroachment, and re-
turned TO Jamestown with two prizcs-a
vessel Of one hundred and pinnace OF
twelve tons, and some prisoners, among
others Roman Catholic priest. Dale, upon
their arrival, clustered and threatened to
put the prisoners to death. Argall quoted
him and then went back to Port Royal and
demolished the Notifications. From the
second voyage he returned TO Virginia on
the 9th Of November, 1913. IS
Near the time that Gates left Virginia,
"about the 5th Of April" 1914, the mar
had come into the Colony in 1910 with bis
white wife, is alleged to. have taken place.
Not many weeks after Pocahontas was
recognized as the wife Of Roife, Ralph Fla
NOR visited Powhatan with greetings from
Dale and u request that the Chief would
allow his youngest daughterto go with him
to Jamestown to become Dale's nearest
companion. wife, and bed-fellow." Pow
hatan replied that lie had just sold his
daughter to an Indian for his wife for some
Indian beads. Hamor suggested that he
might restore the beads and obtain his
daughter for Dale, but the Chief declined
the dishonorabley proposal.
This year Dale sent 100 pounds sterling
to Sir William Thrackmortop, whose sister
was, or soon became. Lady Dale, to be in
vested in the East India Company. An
error has crept into the History Of the
Virginia Company OF London" Thatwork
states that Dale was twice married, but a
more careful Investigation discovers but
one wife.
His wife, Elizabeth, was the daughter OF
Sir Thomas Throckmorton, knight OF Tot
worth. County Gloucester, and sister Of Sir
William The Baronet. At the time her fa-
TIERS will was signed-Decembef II, 1907
she was unmarried. The time Of her mar
riage to Sir Thomas Dale has not been as
certained.
In the summer Of 1914 Captain ArgaIl
brought letters from Virginia to London,
and in August the English Ambassador at
the Netherlands had Dale's leave of absence
extended Tor two or three years.
In the spring OF 1916 Dale, with John
Roife, Pocahontas, Tamocomo, her uncle,
and several Indian girls, embarked for Eng
land in the ship Treasurer, and early in June
were anchored in the port OF Plymouth.
g Rare Ben. Jonson y prepared q
g Masque, which was PLAYED before King,
James on Twelfth Night January s, 1916
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