Mighty Chief Powhaten

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Surname may be Wans.

Powhatan, Indian name Wa-Hun-Sen-A-Cawh or Wahunsonacook (1550?-1618), father
of the Indian princess Pocahontas. He was the chief of the Powhatan confederacy
of Algonquian Indian tribes in what is now Virginia, at the time the English
first settled there.

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Algonquian, most populous and widely distributed of the North American Indian
linguistic stocks, originally comprising several hundred tribes that spoke
nearly 50 related languages. The Algonquian people occupied most of the
Canadian region south of Hudson Bay between the Rocky Mountains and the
Atlantic Ocean and, excluding certain territory held by Siouan and Iroquoian
tribes, that section of what is now the United States extending northward from
North Carolina and Tennessee. Algonquian tribes inhabited various isolated
areas to the south and west, including parts of what are now South Carolina,
Iowa, Wyoming, and Montana. The best-known Algonquian tribes include the
Algonquin, from which the stock takes its name, Amalecite, Blackfoot, Cheyenne,
Conoy, Cree, Delaware, Fox, Gros Ventre, Kickapoo, Massachuset, Miami, Micmac,
Mohegan, Mohican, Montagnais, Musi, Narragansett, Naskapi, Nipmuc, Ojibwa,
Ottawa, Pequot, Potawatomi, Sauk, Shawnee, Tete de Boule, and Wampanoag. Some
of the principal Algonquian confederacies were the Abnaki, Pennacook, and
Illinois. See American Indian Languages. For additional information, see
separate articles on many of the tribes mentioned.

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Mighty — Winanuske. Winanuske was born Abt 1570. [Group Sheet]

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Also known as Matoaka and Rebecca.

Pocahontas, Indian name Matoaka (1595?-1617), American Indian princess,
daughter of Powhatan, ruling chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of
Algonquian Indian tribes; born in Virginia. According to a legend, in 1608 she
saved the life of Captain John Smith by holding his head in her arms as he was
about to be clubbed to death by her father's warriors. Many historians doubt
the story, which is not found in Smith's detailed personal narrative written at
the time. The story first appeared in Smith's Generall Historie of Virginia
(1624). In 1612 Pocahontas was captured by the English, taken to Jamestown, and
baptized Rebecca. In 1614 she married John Rolfe, one of the colonists, with
the blessings of both the governor and her father. Eight years of peace between
the Indians and the English followed the marriage. In 1616 Pocahontas went to
England, where she met the king and queen and was received with royal honor.
She died on the eve of her return to Virginia and was buried in the chapel of
the parish church in Gravesend, England. She and her husband had one son
Thomas, from whom many prominent Virginians claim descent.

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Pocahontas, the daughter of Native American Chief Powhatan, converted to
Christianity in 1612, was baptized, fell in love with Jamestown colonist John
Rolfe, and one year later married Rolfe. When she sailed to London with her
husband, the English thought of her as an Indian princess. While waiting to
sail back to America, she became ill with smallpox and died.

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married John Rolfe 5 Apr 1614, Jamestown, James City, Virginia. John (son of John Rolfe and Dorothy Mason) was born 6 May 1585, Heacham, Norfolk, England; was christened 6 May 1585, Heacham, Norfolk, England; died 1621/1622, Jamestown, James City, Virginia; was buried Jamestown, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

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Born in Indian City.

Thomas married Jane Poythress 1640, , Virginia. Jane (daughter of Francis Poythress and Mary) was born 1630/1634, Jamestown, James City, Virginia; died Jan 1680, , Charles City, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

Thomas married Elizabeth Washington Abt 1632, , Virginia. [Group Sheet]

Thomas married Dorothy Abt 1648, , North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

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Jane married Col. Robert Bolling 1675, Petersberg, Virginia. Robert (son of John Bolling and Mary Carie) was born 26 Dec 1646, London, London, England; died 17 Jul 1709, Kippox, Charles City, Virginia; was buried Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg City County, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

Jane married Agnes 1675. [Group Sheet]