Matoaka "Pocahontas" Rebecca, of the Powhatan Tribe^{[1, 2, 3]}

1595 - 1617  (21 years)

• Name	Matoaka "Pocahontas" Rebecca   [4, 5, 6]
  Suffix	of the Powhatan Tribe
  Nickname	Pocahontas
  Born	17 Sep 1595	Werowocomoco Village, On Pamunkey River York River, Virginia, US   [4, 6]
  Gender	Female
  Buried	1617	Gravesend, Gravesham Borough, Kent, England   [6, 7, 8]
  Died	21 Mar 1617	Gravesend, Kent, England   [4]
  Person ID	I21478	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	10 Jul 2022

  
  

  Father	Mamanatowick Wahunsenacawh POWHATAN,   b. 17 Jun 1545, Iroquois Nation, Pre Colonial America, Virginia, United States ,   d. Bef Apr 1618, Matchut, Tsenacommacah, Virginia, British Colonial America  (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Matatishe Winanuske Eagle Plume Nonoma,   b. 3 Jun 1570, Confluence Dam Staunton Rivers, Pre, Virginia, United States ,   d. Apr 1618, Werowocomoco, Orapax It, Virginia, USA  (Age 47 years)
  Married	1604	Virginia, United States
  Family ID	F3528	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	John ROLFE,   b. Abt 1585, Heacham Hall, Norfolk, England ,   d. Mar 1622, Jamestown, James, Virginia, United States  (Age ~ 37 years)
  Married	5 Apr 1614	Jamestown, Virginia, American Colonies   [1, 6]
  Children	1. Thomas ROLFE,   b. 30 Jan 1615, Smiths Plantation, Virginia ,   d. 1675, VA  (Age 59 years)
  Last Modified	8 Jul 2022
  Family ID	F4364	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Kecoum Captaye Loppassus Japasaw POWTAHAN,   b. 1590, Werowocomoco, Orapax, King William, Virginia, American Colonies ,   d. 13 Apr 1613, Werowocomoco, Orapax, King William, Virginia, American Colonies  (Age 23 years)
  Married	Powhatan Tribal Lands on the Pamunkey River in Virginia Colony, America
  Children	1. POWTAHAN,   b. Bef 1612,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Ka-Okee "Jane" PATAWOMECK *,   b. 1612, Potomac River, Allegany, Maryland, United States ,   d. 1670 or 1704, James City County, Virginia, United States of America  (Age 92 years)
  Last Modified	8 Jul 2022
  Family ID	F3531	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  The Powhatten oral history gives us a much different understanding of Matoaka "Pocahontas" 's sad life. Here is a summary of it at https://www.americanindianmagazine.org/story/pocahontas-first-marriage-powhatan-side-story"Virginia institutions are preparing to celebrate the 400th anniversary (2014) of the Pocahontas Her story from her tribes point of view, is very different than the Disney version of her life. Both accounts agree that she did help save the fledgling Jamestown in their first year of survival. She was repaid by being kidnaped by the British, only to be converted to Christianity, taken to England to drum up monetary support for the Jamestown Colony, married to John Rolfe, died and buried in England at the mere age of 21. The English ignored the fact that she had a marriage to an Indian husband by whom she had 2 small children at the time of her entrapment by them. Her daughter, Ka-Ochee, was our direct ancestor. This information in part, is by a teenaged European boy who was traded by the English so that he could learn the Powhattan language. He ran away from the village after six months to Pocahantas' sister and her husband where he was put in charge of "babysitting" little Ka-Ochee after her mother, Pocahontas' imprisonment on the English ship. Matoaka, as was her birth name, also had a son Thomas Rolfe, whom many trace through. It is not known if Thomas Rolfe was the son of John Rolfe or another gentry on the ship whom molested her. I am very proud to be her descendant and so feel for her.

  
  

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