Western Kansas world., 1886-10-30

Virginia families are directly descended,
and they are proud Of their Indian
blood. Eccentric John Randolph was
q descendant, and vas boastful OF his re-
lationship with the imperial house of
Pcwhatan, whose grave. by the way, is
preserved few miles below Richmond.
and affords pleasant afternoon stroll
for the citizens. Jefferson was also re-
lated to the Indians, but he was careful
not to allude to any triumphant spirit to
the redness Of his blood, being the faith
Or of the Declaration of Independence.
"John Rolf, the princess husband.
was Of Norman decent with William the
Conqueror in England, and graduate
at Oxford; the specimens of his writings
handed down attest both his scholarship
and benevolence. He was the frat
American historian, and as much de-
serves mention, though his history was
short, confined to q brief description of
the petty colony, dedicated to the king;
but his fame rests on larger basis. viz,
that Of being the first tobacco planter;
Of demonstrating it's importance az q
vast source Of wealth to future planters.
In one of his letters he declared that his
main motive in marrying tho princess
was her religious instruction; Whatever
his motive, certainly his marriage was q
success. His wife's descendants are
either 80 numerous or held in such high
honor as to have given rise to the saying
outside Of the borders Of tho state,
Every family in Virginia is decended
from Pocahontas.'"
"A Virginia antiquarian, who was
throughout his life ambitious of getting
up q complete uade n'ecun, Of the genoa
logy of Virginia families announced
shortly after the war his purpose of pub
fishing work on the decendants of Po.
cahontas, in which I will, as far as will
be possible, include all Of whom I can
get any account His premature death
alone prevented the issue of the bulky
mass OF material he had collected. Ac-
oording to his figuring, the genuine de-
oendants are few, the claimants many.
1t was ea-ly made point to call persons
and places in honor Of the princess, and
hence her name, as that of her fathers,
Powhatan, from whom We applied have
Powhatan pipe, are to-day very common
in tho state. 'Pocahontas,' an outskirt
Of Petersburg, was terribly shelled dur
ing the war.
From the first alliance between red
and white races sprang the Blands,
Blairs, Randolphs, Bollings. The an
cestors of the Randolphs came over to En-
gland with the Conqueror, and his name
was included in the roll of Battle Abby.
William Randolph of "Surkey Island"
as he was distinctly spoken Of, emigrat-
ed to the colony in 1875, and from him
all the Randolphs of Virginia decended.
Peyton Randolph, first president of Con-
gress. Edmund Randolph, Washington's g
attorney general, John Randolph OF
Ronoke, were direct descendants, and by
marriage Jefferson and Marshall were re-
lated to him. The blands and Bollings
were prominent as painters, colonial Of
fcers and revolutionists. The head of
the Blairs, Rev, Hugh, as he was habitu-
ally termed, ''the commissary," having
been sent to Virginia as such by the
bishop of London, founded the first col
lege in.the colony, civilian and Mary"
still to-day doing as well as could be ex-
pectei, after the havoc of the war. The
commissary's nephew, John, signed the
constitution along with Madison and
Washington.