Morning journal and courier., 1884-04-09
P0cahontas in England.

The Indian Girls Burial and Accidental
Cremation.
In my last letter I promised to say some
thing of the new light thrown by Mr.. Her
bert Jones' ''Ssndripgham" Gin Norfolk,
England) upon the visit of Pocahontas to
England, writes Naples correspondent of
the American Register. Sir Thomas Dale,
the Governor of Virginia, took deep inter
est in the baptism and marriage of Pocahon-
tas, both of which were celebrated in the
little wooden church OF jamestown. It is
this Governor who, in letter contempora-
neous with the Wedding, wrote of sha Indian
wife of John Rolfe that she dWelt civilly and
lovingly with her husband, and the Iatter he
described as an honest gentleman and of
good behavior. We must remember that the
word 'tcivilly," used above, meant, in the
seventeenth century, like q civilized person
Three years after the marriage of Jehn Rolfe
and Pocahontas Chat is in the beginning of
1615) they went to England. and the latter
was received with as warm welcome as her
husband. Not only SO, but Mrs. Herbert
Jones tells that the once little Indian
maiden of the Vireinian forests, clad in the
costume prevailing at that time in England,
was received with much pomp by the bishop
of London, and was presented at court
James I. being at that time the reiRnina
monarch. We are furthermore told that Po-
cahontas relished the charms of the court.
the drama and polite society but the eli
mate, and especially the smoke and fog of
London, affected and weakened her health
And SO it was determined that they would re-
turn to the new world. Mr.. John Rolfs
made all the preparations for the voyage
and the vessel in which Pocahontas was to
embark With her husband and their bright
eyed little half breed son Thomas was to sail
from Gravesend. Arriving at this port her
illness increased. Carefully and tenderly she
was lifted on the deck OF the good ship
which was on thu eve of sailing, but alas,
life soon fed, and the daughter of PoWhatan
died juss nine months after her arrival In
England. Mrs. Herbert Jones, in "Sand-
ringham Past and Present" thus concludes
the account of her death and burial: 'tShe
(Pocahontss), who had hoped for q tomb in
the trackless forests of her own land, was
inappropriasely consigned to the chanoel of d
mouldy old church in Gravesond, and even
underwent cremation, for that church was
burned to the ground one hundred years
later" After the death of Pocahontas her
husband returned to Virginia, where he was
secretary and recorder-general" of the colo.
nv, but his son Thomas remained in Eng
land, where he was educated under the super
vision of his uncle. Henry Rolfe of Norwood
When he attained his majority he went to
America and married, and left an only daugh-
ter This daughter married Colonel Boiling,
and it is through her that come all who are
real descendants of Pocahontss. The inter-
esting book from which I have cleaned the
above facts says nothing about the usual
story of the Randolph family in Virginia
obtaining their name by changing 'sRoifs'
into Randolph" The usual sensational
story of Captain Smith being saved by Po-
cahontas rushing in between the uplifted
club and the intended victim may not be true
in every particular, but this much il fully es~
tablished, that from the very first she Waa q
friend to the white men who first vent to
Virginia, aud that she became the loving wife
of one of the earliest and most respectable
settlers of the jamestown colony.