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had been taken ashore. The entry In
the parish register reads:

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had been taken ashore. The entry In
the parish register reads:
Rebecca Wrolfe, wyff of Thos. Wrolfe,
gent a Virginia lady borne, here is
buried in We chanceile
The last words, not being applicable
for use in connection with the new
statue, will be omitted, but the rest
will be presented in its unique old time
spelling.
To further the success of the project
the Virginia Association For the Pres
ervation of Antiquities has determined
to cooperate with the Pocahontas Me-
mortal association and has granted the
latter organization permission to select
its own site for the statue on James
town island. Ths location will be
chosen when the members make their
trip there next October.
Mr. Partridge, who has given his pre-
liminary work gratuitously as his con-
tribution to the project, will accompa-
ny the tourists and advise them re-
garding the artistic requirements to be
considered in selecting the site. These
courtesies from the sculptor and the
donation of the site by the patriotic
society have encouraged the Memorial
association to Believe that the entire
cost of the statue can be met from
its available funds. which now approxi-
mate $4,000. Additional contributions
are anticipated when the scope of the
work becomes more generally known,
SO that before the plans are finally and
definitely concluded it will be possible
to determine how enduring and appro-
pirate surroundings for the statue can
be provided.
While the work of the Memorial as
ISOLATION would undoubtedly have re-
suited in the erection of some COM
memorative work of art, there can be
no doubt it has been stimulated by the
congressman's insinuations that Poca
hontas was Il myth or that, if such
person did live, she left no descend
ants. This offhand comment has done
more to induce turning over of old
genealogical records at home and the
historical books in the Libraries than
would have been accomplished by any
advice to that effect by the most ar
dent admirer of the Indian princess.
Since then members of the association
have been printing themselves to de-
fend the record of history and to ex-
plain at length the part Pocahontas
really played in saving the life of Cap
tain John Smith. They are also learn
ing about her furnishing supplies to
the early celonists in that critical two
years of their experience in the new
world when they We're without de-
pendable crops; when their troubles
kept multiplying in most discouraging
fashion and no help came from over
sea from those of their own race on
whom they had placed dependence.
But for the service rendered by POca-
hontas in this instance alone the Eng
lish would probably have failed ig-
ANONYMOUSLY in their colonial expert
ment.
AS to the saving of Captain Smiths
life. an incident which has been dis
puted by some of the latter day crit
les, it is recorded by scholars and his
torians as a fully established fact that
the women of the Algonquin tribes not
only had voice in the tribal councils,
like the modern Pueblos, but that they
were permitted to exercise the right of
saving life by adoption. Ample author
tiles are quoted by the promoters of
the Memorial association In their in
dorsement of these generally accepted |
facts Of history and are pointed to in |
support of their contention that moth |
ing can be more fitting to mark the |
third century since the English landed |
at jamestown than to erect there the |
most enduring of memorials to Poca-
hontas.