Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-12-30
GIealings from our Colonial History.
PoCAHoNTAs TIE DUsKY MAIDEN AND
PRINCESS
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PoCAHoNTAs TIE DUsKY MAIDEN AND
PRINCESS
(Concluded.)
The Indian wife Pocahontas soon be-
came general favorite with the colon
1878 at Jamestown and readily fell
lato their civilized ways. She was
christened Rebecca and duly instructed
Ia the Eoglish language and the dec
rnes OF the church. In 1916 she sailed
E m Virginia with her husband for
En land, where, as the daughter tf an
Indian king, sne was received with
great enthusiasm and solicitude, and
everywhere entertained with becoming
marks Of respect. lord and Lady
Delaware presented her at court, and
divers courliers and others who saw
or declared that they had seen many
Euslish ladies worse favored, propor-
toned and behaviored." The grotes que
,,iorumeDts of savage maid were ex-
..naoeed tor the jewels, silks and laces
of court lady, and We are 'old that she
did not only accustome herself to
i: vilitie, but still carried herselfss the
daughter OF king, and wss according
y respected"
By princes she was received as 8
uyiucess, snd by the dignii ares of he
.hurch she wss welcomed as the first
fruits of missionary H,rt in the new
world. The Lord Bishop of Lot
Ion entertained her at his palace
with "festival, s'ate ard lonp."
10 the rich apparel tef ling lady of
ank aud fashion she sat for her por-
nit. Costly presents were bestowed
lpon her, and at the theatres she lis
ened TO flaltering adulstions of which
sue was tue object. All of this time
Master Role seems to have sunk en-
rely into The background and to have
hone only by reflected light. But sll
ne homage aud fattery which Poca-
lontas received could not impair the
implicitly of the "Guardian Angel of
Virginia. nor make her forgetful of old
Ir!euds.
Her meeting with Captain Smith,
after years of separation, upon British
soil and amid her grand surroundings,
was beautiful and touching. Before
vaving for New England the bold al
venturer went TO see her and I'D
lressed with a modest salutaiop,"
ne6tting, as be thought, her rank,
whereupon she turned from him and
covered her face, mot seeming well
eontented." Captain Smith was
amazed and "repented him." Her arm
neart was wounded at his formal greet
4ur. She recalled her girlhood in Yir-
.inia, the circums ances of his preser'
valion in the wilderness aud all other
circumstances of their old time
iriendship, and insisted upon call
ing him "fatber," of which he
avs Though l would have e1-
cussd | burst not allow of that title,
because she was kings daughter"
She would have her way, however, and
to the captains remonstrance made al
swer: "You were not afraid to come
into my fathers country, aud caused
fear to him and all ha people but me,
aad do you fear now that l should call
YOU fathel? l tell you then l will and
YOU shall call me child, and 80 l will be
forever and ever your countrymaD."
When early in the year 1917 Captai1
Argall, the same who had bought our
prip cess with a copper kettle, was
ready to return to Virginia as a deputy
GOVERNOR of the colony Rolfe and Poca-
nontas were to sail with him and al
rappements were made for their accom-
mediation on the admiral's ship, but this
wild flower of America was destined
never 10 see her native woods again.
At the age of twenty-five she fell VIC
tim of the Eaglish climate and was
buried sin ye cbaunceP" at the church
at Grsvesend. Her husband, Master
Rolfe, who had bseD appointed secretary
and recorder general o. the colony, sail.
ed as he had planned for Virginia, and
her little son Thomas, whom she dear
ly loved, was left in England, where
be lived with his uncle, Henry Roife,
until he had completed his education.
He then cast his lot with the colonlsts
in Virginia and became there man OF
wealth aud prominence. He married
Miss PJythress and had one child,
Jane, who married Colonel Robert Boil
ing, of Virginia.
a few of the names of those who
claim descent in direct line from Poca-
hontas through her granddaughter,
Jane Boiling, are as follows: Boiling,
Randolph, Gay: Eldridge, Murray.
Whittle, Cary, Page, Blair, Meade,
Kennon. Bland, Wake, Robertson, Ca
bell, West, Eppes, Wiley, Archer,
Dickens, Smith, Fairfax Fisher. Stan
ard, Morris, Stewart Kipckel, McPhall
Coleman and Williams.
or John Rolfe, William Writ Henry
10 an able address before the Virginia
His orical Society, iu which ne success
fully vndicates the veracity # John
Smith. the virtue of Pocahontss, aud
the honesty of Rolfe. says: HE was
one of the most active persons OF his
time in developing the resources OF the
infant colony. He will be ever remem-
bered in history, however, as the bus
band of Pocabontas, who, born the
daughter of savage king. was endo"-
ed with all the greces OF character
which became christian princess, VINO
was the first of her people to embrace
un1t in marriage