National Republican., 1884-04-10
poCAHoNrAs IN ENGLAND.
The Indian Girls Burial and Academia
Cremation.

Cremation.
In my last letter promised to say something
of the new light thrown by Mr.. Herbert
Jones's "sandringham" Gn Norfolk, Englandl
upon the visit OF Pocahontas to Enland,
writes a Naples correspondent of the american
Register. Sir Thomas Dale, the governor of
Virginia, took a deep interest in the baptism
and marriage o; Pocahontas. both of which
were celebrated in tho little wooden church
of jamestown. 1t is this governor who,
in a letter contempOraneous with the we'd
ding, wrote Of the Indian wife of John Rolfe
that she dwelt civilly and lovingly with her
husband, and the latter he described
as an honest gentleman and Of good behavior.
We must remember that the word "civilly"
used above meant in the seventeenth century
like n civilized person. Three years after the
marriage of John Rolfe and Pocahontas (that
is, in tho beginning of 16l5) they went to
England and the latter was received with as
warm IA welcome as her husband. Not only
so, but Mrs. Herbert Jones tells us that the
once little Indian maiden of tho Yirginian
forests, clad in the costume prevailing Mt that
time time in England, was received with
much pomp by the bishop Of London, and
was presented Mt court James ! being at that
time the reigning monarch. We are further
moro told that POcahontas relished the
charms Of the court, tho drama, and polite
society; but the climate, and especially tho
smoke and fog of London, affected and
weakened her health. Aud 30 it was de-
termined that they would return to the new
world Mr.. John Rolfe made all the prepara-
ions for the voyage, and the vessel in " hich
Pucahontas was to embark with her husband
and their bright-eycd little half-breed son
Thomas was to sail from Gravesond. Ar
irving at this port her illness increased.
Carefully and tendorly sho was lifted on the
anlr nf In A1 oh Il, ,tpht tb.n
of sailing; but, alas, life soon hed, and the
daughter Of Powhatan died just nine months
after hor arrival in England. Mrs. Herbert
Jones, in Sandringham Past and Present.
thus concludes the account of her death and
| burial: "She lPocahontas), who had hoped
for home in the trackless forests of her own
land, was appropriately consigned to the
chanccl Of mouldy old church in Grayesend,
and even underwent cremation, for that
church was burned to tho ground ono hun
dred years later" After the death of
Pocahontas her husband returned to Vir-
ginia where he was secretary and recorder
general" of tho colony, but his son Thomas
remained in England, whore he was educated
under the supervision of his uncle, Horny
ROlfe of Norwood. When he attained his
majority no went TO America and married
and left an only daughter This daughter
married Col Boiling, and IL Is through her
that como all who are real descendants Of
Pocahontas. The interesting book from which
l have Cleaned the above facts says nothing
about the usual story OF tho Randolph family
in Virginia obtaining their name by chang
ing "Rolfe" into Randolph" Tho usual
sensational story of Capt. Smith being saved
by POcahontas rushing in between the up
lifted club and the intended victim may not
be true in every particular, but this much is
fully established, that from the very first she
was friend to the white men who first went
to Virginia. and that she became the loving
wife of one of tho earlist aud most respect
able settlers of the jamestown colony.