That son would be named Thomas Rolfe, whose biological father may have actually been Sir Thomas Dale.

She grew into a deep depression and had a second son out of wedlock. Edith Bolling Wilson, through many generations, is a direct descendant of the famous American Indian, Pocahontas. While captive in Jamestown, Pocahontas was raped by possibly more than one colonist - an act that was incomprehensible to Native Americans. Forced to leave her husband and small son, Pocahontas boarded an English ship, not knowing that colonists had murdered her husband Kocoum shortly after. This new volume is an indispensable adjunct to contemporary Pocahontas scholarship. Hoping to prevent future attacks by Native Americans, English Captain Samuel Argall made those rumors a reality and took the Chief's beloved daughter away with him after threatening violence against her village.īefore leaving, Argall offered a copper pot to the tribe and later claimed the two parties had made a trade. Pocahontas descendants: a revision, enlargement, and extension of the list as set out by Wyndham Robertson in his book Pocahontas and her descendants (1887) 1994, Genealogical Pub. Fourth and Fifth Corrections and Additions to Pocahontas Descendants consistsof two separate sections of additions and corrections to the existing canon, contains over 80 pages of changes and revisions, with separate indexes referring to more than 2,800 names. With tensions rising between the Powhatan and the English, rumors spread that Pocahontas was a prime target for kidnapping. Pocahontas was not traded to the English she was kidnapped and raped

Additionally, children were forbidden to attend a werowance ceremony, so Pocahontas wouldn't have been present.