The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-28
PocAHoNrAs AND GEN. HARRISON
Some of the First Families of Virginia.

Some of the First Families of Virginia.
From the Ne1c York Sun.
A remarkable addition to the rapidly
growing pedigree Of the next President has
been furnished by a Virginia genealogist
who writes for the Baltimore American.
This authority asserts that Gen. Harrison is
the eighth great-grandson Of Pocahontas.
and he gives part of the line OF descent,
which we reduce here TO its simplest terms:
The Princess Pocahontas.
Thomas Rolph of jamestown was her son.
Rolph left a daughter, who married Col.
Robert Boiling
Mrs. Bolling's only son was Maj John Boiling.
One of John Bolling's daughters married
Col. Dick Randolph of Curtis.
Col Dick Randolph's daughter married
another Boiling.
Their daughter married Harrison %
Then came Gov. Benjamin Harrison, who
signed the declaration of independence;
Gen. William Henry Harrison, ninth Presi-
dent of the United States.
John Scott Harrison. the next Presidents
father
The next President.
Ii there is a link anywhere in this chain
that seems at all weak. 1t is that which con-
meets Gen. Benjamin Harrison, the I'M
doubted great-grandfather of the present
Benjamin Harrison, with the Rindolphs
We have, therefore, Professionally marked
that line in the pedigree with an interroga-
ton point, to stand only until there is more
specific information. Perhaps Brother
Blaine can supply it,
Very early in the present century, a Vir-
GINA historian named John Burk styled the
direct desc endants of Pocahontas the I'M
perial family of Virginia" "rhe virtues of
mildness aud humanity" said Burk, $50
emnently distinguished in Pocahontas, re-
main in the nature of an inheritance to her
posterity. There is scarcely scion from
this stock which has not been, in the highest
degree, amiable and respectable" Burk
also prophesied that the descendants of Pc
cahontas would long be prominent in pub
lie life.
The genealogist who writes for the Balti-
more american, having established to his
own satisfaction the line of descent from
Pocahontas to Gen. Ben Harrison, proceeds
with amazing industry and wonderful
knowledge to trace tue consequences of that
interesting relationship. Gen. Harrison is
cousin of Bishop Randolph of Virginia,
of all of Chief Justce Marshall's innumer-
able kindred, of the many families of Vir-
ginia SCOTS, of Senator John S. Barbour.
of Mrs. Annette Rives Chanler, the author
of the "Quick or the DeadP and "Asmo-
deus" and of the Careys of Warwick coun-
ty, q family which produced the young
woman with whom George Washington
was once in love, and to whom he addressed
the only poem he ever wrote, very bad
poem, beginning and ending with the lines
''O woe is me, that should love and conceal.
And dare not reveal"
But not only that. The descent from
Pocahontas puts Gen. Harrison into the re-
lation of cousinship with all of that numer-
Gus and imposing aggregation of collateral
branches which constitutes the imperial
family of Virginia Blood is thicker than
water, and the name of the next Presidents
cousins living between the upper Potomac
and the Dismal swamp is legion. Among
them we only mention, in tabulated form,
for convenience of reference: