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POCAHONTAS, ALIAS MATOAKA,
AND HER DESCENDANTS
THROUGH HER MARRIAGE AT
Jamestown, Virginia, in April, 1614,
WITH
JOHN ROLFE, GENTLEMAN;.
INCLUDING THE NAMES OF
ALFRIEND, ARCHER, BENTLEY, BERNARD, BLAND, BOLLING, BRANCH,
CABELL, CATLETT, CARY, DANDRIDGE, DIXON, DOUGLAS, DUVAL,
ELDRIDGE, ELLETT, FERGUSON, FIELD, FLEMING, GAY, GORDON,
GRIFFIN, GRAYSON, HARRISON, HUBARD, LEWIS, LOGAN, MARK-
HAM, MEADE, McRAE, MURRAY, PAGE, POYTHRESS, RAN
DOLPH, ROBERTSON, SKIPWITH, STANARD, TAZEWELL,
WALKE, WEST, WHITTLE, AND OTHERS.
WITH
Biographical Sketches
BY
WYNDHAM ROBERTSON,
AND
ILLUSTRATIVE HISTORICAL NOTES
BY
R. A. BROCK.

J. W. RANDOLPH & ENGLISH,
PUBLISHERS AND BOOKSELLERS,
1302 Main St., Richmond, Va.
1887.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1887, by
WYNDHAM ROBERTSON,
In the office of tbe Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

06(3.? 31

From the Press of
WM. ELLIS JONES,
Richmond, Va.

PREFACE.

I offer to the narrow circle it may interest, as wel! as I have
been able to restore it, the Tree of Pocahontas and Rolfe, as it
has grown from them as its root to its seventh season (inclusive)
of fruitage. I accompany it with illustrative sketches of some
of its notable products, within my reach, in order to relieve the
blankness of it, by revealing something of its inward succulence
as well as its outward form. I have condensed them as much as
in my view consisted with my object, knowing how insignificant
the whole matter is amid the great surges of the world it is
thrown upon. The notice of Pocahont9s is exceptionally long
for reasons apparent on the face of it, involving, as it does, in
cidentally, the vindication of Captain Smith against the unfriendly
strictures of some modern critics, and which all lovers of justice
will thank me- for introducing. In a few other instances, where
undue space may seem to have been accorded, candor, I hope,
will set down my departure from brevity from larger opportuni
ties of knowledge rather than to unworthier motives. To this
consideration of relieving the book from unnecessary encum
brance I have, with few exceptions, omitted frorn the Register
names barren of progeny, as also, of the almost numberless
"pieces justificUtifs " obtained by me in aid of my labors. On
the other hand, I have to lament the want of the completeness I
sought for it as a genealogy, bafHed in part by ignorance of the
sources to apply to, and in large part, also, by the indifference of
many to the object in view. To these causes are owing the many
bare and unsightly limbs it exhibits, that disappoint the eye by
want of their proper foliage. I hope, however, that these very
defects themselves will serve to stimulate many, who will regret
to see them, to yet supply these waste places, in some future re
print, with their proper garniture. I submit it as it is, however.

IV PREFACE.
with all its defects, as yet the best I could make it, hoping that
what I have gathered with much pains may be accepted as an
offset for what I have been unable to reach. If, as I have tried
to do, I have succeeded in laying a safe foundation whereon
others may raise a more complete structure, I shall be content.
I wish to acknowledge, exceptionally, the courtesy of R. A.
Brock, Esq., who has supervised the printing of the book,
making additions to the text, and who kindly placed at my dis
posal the illustrated "Boiling Memoirs," as published and
annotated by the late Thomas H. Wynne, and which consti
tutes the basis of this Register ; as, also, to Mr. Alexander
Brown, to whose active assistance I am much indebted.
The Frontispiece is from a photograph taken recently in Eng
land from the original portrait of Pocahontas (London, 1616),
yielded to my request by its present possessor, Mr. Elwyn, one
of the family of Rolfe, now, and from time immemorial, resi
dents of Norfolk County, England.
The work was executed by one of England's best photogra
phers, and under the personal supervision of Mrs. Herbert
Jones — author of ''Sandringham," a charming memoir of the
many Norfolk families, containing a most graceful , and graphic
description of the original picture — to whose kind and judicious
co-operation in forwarding my views, I wish to express here my
warmest acknowledgements.
The "Pocahontas" found in many " Indian" publications, and
a few in oil, while authentic, are from De Passe's almost contem
poraneous engraving from the original and the only one known.
Except such, all so-called portraits of her are mere fancies ofthe
artists. The Engraving necessarily inexact, and the copies more
so, the only accurate as well as authentic reproduction of that
painting ever published in the United States is that of the Frontis
piece of this book. The Sun's work can never be false, man's
never true. ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE GENEALOGY.
b. — born. d — died. m. — married.
M. H. B. — Member of the House of Burgesses.
M. H. D.— Member House of Delegates.
M. Va. Sen. — Member Virginia Senate.
M. C. — Member of Congress.
M. U. S. S.— Member United States Senate.
J. P. — ^Justice of Peace.

PREFACE.

LETTER FROM REV. PHILIP SLAUGHTER. D. D.,
Historiographer of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Virginia.

I gladly avail myself of the liberty accorded me by the vener
able writer to adorn my little book with the following letter :
Cedar Mountain, November 13, 1886.
Hon. Wyndham Robertson, The Meadows :
My Dear Sir : I am glad that you have undertaken to
delineate the "peerless Pocahontas" according to the truth of
history, .since after your right hand shall have lost its cunning,
no one will be left so competent, from a thorough acquaintance
with the history of Virginia in general, and a special study of
this particular subject, to do the work, and whose blood relation
to her must naturally qualify them to do it con amore. She
deserves commemoration, not only for intrinsic worth and her
public services, but also because from her have sprung so many
of our best people.
I have read your manuscript with much interest, and consider
it a valuable contribution to our historical literature. I congratu
late you upon having procured from England authentic copies
of the only original portrait of her, so that we may see her as
she appeared to the eyes of the artist instead of through the
medium of the engraved caricatures. The personal notices are
of special value and interest. That of the unique John Randolph,
of Roanoke, seems to me rather severe, and might be tempered
with some Hghter shades. I have one of the last (perhaps the
very last) letters written by him. It is dated about ten days
before his death to his god-daughter, Rebecca Matoaca Robinson.
With much that is otherwise, it has gleams of tenderness in it
that, to me, are very touching, like the plaintive bleatings of the
stricken deer. It gives in sharp contrast the two chief elements
of his composite character. The best explanation and apology

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for him is that his mind often lost its balance. One of the most
exquisite reminiscences of my life is having heard his great
speech in the Convention of 1829-30. I was so fascinated that
I was unconscious of the lapse of time— hours dwindling into
moments. I have ohen been reminded of one of his pithy say
ings in favor of free-hold suffrage— viz : "Mr. President, when
we leave the land we shall be at sea."
I would suggest for your consideration if it would not be well
to give a brief history of the portraits of Pocahontas. Your
criticism of the hypocritics of our early history is timely, as it
may tend to elicit the truth.
The New York Post had lately a long article on " Arber's Edi
tion" of Smith's Works, well worth reading for the opinion of
the reviewers as well as that of Arber, the publisher.
One of the most accurate and learned books on Colonial Vir
ginia is "Anderson's History ofthe British Colonial Church."
In commenting on the criticism ofour Virginia Burke, who said:
"Smith's work is a sort of epic history or romance in which the
author recounts, like Ossian, his achievements in like spirit in
which he fought." Anderson says : " The greater part of Smith's
History is made up of the narratives of his companions, ex
pressed sometimes in grandiloquent terms, but Smith's own
language is remarkable for its simplicity."
I wish you could have included Randolph Fairfax in your per
sonal notices, as he was (considering the brevity of his career),
morally and physically, one of the most beautiful branches of
this remarkable family tree. But, as you must draw the line
somewhere, and you have drawn it at the seventh generation, he
is necessarily excluded, and it might seem invidious to some to
make him an exception to your general rule. I don't know
enough of the subject to revise your genealogical details. My
own experience teaches me, however perfect ypur copy may be,
it is impossible for a family to pass through that most formidable
of steam-engines, the printing press, without the loss df some
member or suffering such dislocations that its own father cannot
recognize it. I may venture, however, to say that Colonel
Meade had no issue by his first wife, Elizabeth Randolph, of
Curie's. Bishop Meade's mother's maiden name was Grymes,
and she was the widow of William Randolph. Bishop Meade
had no Randolph blood in him, although the types make me say

PREFACE. Vll
so in "Bristol Parish," in spite of my protestations. Wilson
Miles Cary, the highest authority on the Randolph famil)-, says
that the wife of Anthony Walke was Jane, not Anne, as it is
generally rendered.
This subject has the more interest for me because from her
have sprung leading members of the church in every generation,
and her blood runs in the veins of many of our clergy and laity,
of whom I may signalize the Rev. Henry Page, missionary to
Japan, and the present Bishop of Virginia, the Rt. Rev. Francis
M. Whittle, D. D.
Hoping soon to see your book in print, and with best wishes
for your weal, here and hereafter, Faithfully yours,
P. Slaughter.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Genealogical deduction of descendants of Pocahontas to the
seventh generation inclusive  i
Notice of Pocahontas  i
John Rolfe  23
Thomas Rolfe  19
Descendants of Pocahontas —
In the second degree  31
In the third degree  31
In the fourth degree  32
In the fifth degree  32
In the sixth degree  35
In the seventh degree  40
Appendix —
Notice of John Boiling  57
Jane Boiling  57
Mary Boiling   58
Anne Boiling  59
Thomas Boiling and Elizabeth Gay  60
John Boiling, Jr  61
Robert Boiling of " Chellow "  61
Archibald Boiling  62
Elizabeth Randolph, wife of R. K. Meade  63
Mary Murray, wife of Col. Wm. Davies  64
Elizabeth Boiling, wife of William Robertson  65
William Boiling  67
Thomas Boiling  68
Lenaeus Boiling  68
Powhatan Boiling  68
Blair Boiling  69
Dr. William Tazewell  70
John Randolph, of Roanoke  70
The Whittle Family  74
Rt. Rev. F. M. Whittle, D. D., LL.D  75
Thomas Boiling Robertson  76
John Robertson  78
Wyndham Robertson  81
Charles Joseph Cabell  84
Jenny Eldridge  84

Pocahontas and Her Descendants.

Pocahontas, daughter of the Indian chief, Powhatan, the mighty
Werowance, who ruled over Attanoughkomouck als. Virginia, born
about 1595, died 1616, married John Rolfe {b..  , d. 1622, first Secre
tary and Recorder-General of Virginia and member of the Council)
about the first of April, 1614, and left issue one child only, a son.
Pocahontas, as her name is in history, and as she was known
to the colonists; Matoaks, reported to have been her family
name, or Rebecca, as she was christened, was born about 1595,
married in 1614, and died at Gravesend, in England, in 1617.
History does nbt offer, nor has fiction ever depicted a lovelier
character. She was her father's "dearest daughter," the idol of
her tribe, the admiration of the English, and the very pet, as it
were, of Nature herself.. Her father was Powhatan, the great
Werowance and ruler of all the Indian tribes which, at the advent
of the English, inhabited Virginia from the seaboard to the falls
of its rivers. He is described as a savage of a grave and majes-
tical presence; cruel, yet not pitiless; stern, yet affectionate;
despotic, yet beloved; brave, but wary and subtle, and not desti
tute of magnanimity. From him Pocahontas seems to have de
rived all his higher and better attributes without the harsher and
less ingenuous ones. Thus esteemed by her own people, with
whom she lived to womanhood, as the flower of her tribe, and
entitled by the English "The Nonpareilla of Virginia," she passed
and repassed, on errands of love and bounty, between Jamestown
(as long as Smith remained there) and her woodland home, as
free thoughted and unblamed as Una herself; nor, through her
years of captivity and married life among the colonists, nor yet

2 POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS.
while sojourning among the blandishments and seductions of the
Court of London, was a breath of scandal ever known to touch her
name. We see her, in history, but by glimpses indeed, but these
are all luminous with moral beauty, and verify one another by a
perfect harmony of tint.
We first see her, a child of eleven or twelve years, interposing
herself between Smith and the uplifted club of the executioner,
and saving him from the death to which the politic foresight of
Powhatan had doomed him, braving at once and prevailing over,
her father's anger, and leaving us in doubt whether most to extol
her compassionating tenderness or his generosity.
After her first introduction to us at Werowocomico, we next
see her, a guileless child, naked, according to the custom of her
tribe, attended by her "wild train," playing and romping at times
in the streets of Jamestown with the children of the colonists ; a
spectacle as blameless as amiable, in the light ofa true and broad
humanity, yet not wholly escaping censure (as where-ever was
there purity that did?) from some of the " nice sort," who would
apply to it the conventional rules of artificial society, to which it
is not amenable, and who themselves alone furnish the indelicacy
that scandalizes them.
Next she is seen as a sort of ambassadress sent, from her father
to beg for peace and the restoration of certain captive Indians,
which were both accorded, and mainly, it would seem, in recog
nition of some personal but unexplained claim of the artless in
tercessor. "Jamestown, as freely frequenting as her father's habitation,"
she next appears coming to every few days, seemingly with the
permission of Powhatan, on errands of mercy, "bringing with
her swarthy retinue so much provision to feed us that else we
had directly starved"; and still, "during the time of two or
three years, was the instrument, under God, to preserve this
colonie from death, famine, sind other confusion, which, if, in
those times, it had been once dissolved, Virginia might have line
[lain,] as it was at our first arrival), to this day."
When, after Smith's return to England, the Indians "did spoile
and murther all they encountered," we find that, out of a band
of thirty, all were slain save one that escaped, and one, a boy,
Henry Spelman, ' ' that Pocahontas saved, and who by her
means lived many yeres amongst the Potawomekes," serving

POCAHONTAS ANnD HER DESCENDANTS. 3
often afterwards as an interpreter between the colonists and the
Indians. We next see her coming through the "dark and irksome"
night to warn Smith against a planned surprise, and with watery
eyes, begging him to escape her father's fury; whereby the colony
was, it is probable, a second time saved from destruction. What
but the love and admiration Smith first inspired her with, and the
natural impulse to protect again the life she had already once
saved, can sufficiently account for, as this conjecture does, this
new intervention ?
As if her mission were to be ever in place to watch over the
safety of this young exposed germ of a future empire, she is now
seen hiding from his pursuers, Richard Wyffin, a messenger to
Smith (who was then at Pamaunkee), whereby he was enabled
to timely advertise the latter of a new attempt on his life, pro
jected by Powhatan, which Smith, thus forewarned, took good
means to frustrate.
We now lose any clear sight of her for two years, but she had
evidently fled away from the beginning scenes of violence and
blood immediately ensuing on Srnith's departure from Virginia,
to live with the Potawomekes, where, her retreat at last being
discovered, one wilier savage than those he dealt with, Argall,
prevailed over the cupidity of their simple-minded king to be
tray her, "reljictant" (as he states) " into his hands " [April,
1613].=^ In honored captivity she now lived a year in the charge
of Sir Thomas Dale and the Rev. Alexander Whitaker, than
vvhom two higher or purer men never came to Virginia. Being
by them carefully instructed and fashioned to piety and civility, a
docile pupil, she now confessed the faith of Jesus Christ (" which
thing Sir Thomas Dale had labored a long time to ground in
her"), was baptized, and became the wife of "John Rolfe, (April,
1 614,) an EngHsh gentleman," highly esteemed, — adopting his
refigion, his civihzation, and his language. Her marriage had
the sanction of her father. It was held mutually as a new pledge
of the pacification recently before made between Dale and Pow-
* " Exceeding pensive and discontented, yet extraordinary courteous
usage, by little and little, at length wrought her to patience, and so to
Jamestown she was brought."

4 POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS.
hatan, and which it is apparent, her captivity with the English
and expressed regard for them, alone rendered possible. It at
once allayed distrust, restored intercourse, and revived good-will,
so that, in Hamor's quaint language, " the colony was never
better." Indeed, as more than once before, her intervention had
saved the young settlement from destruction, so now, from her
marriage to her death, she may be said to have hovered over it
as a brooding dove of peace.
Finally, at London, we find her provided for as the guest of
the Virginia Company, the honored recipient of the marked
notice and attention of the Queen and ladies of the Court, and
entertained with special and extraordinary " state, festival, and
pomp" by the Lord Bishop of London (as described by Pur
chas, who was present), closing, untimely, her pure and beautiful
life at Gravesend when about to embark for Virginia, [in a vessel
of the Virginia Company specially furnished for her accommo
dation]. In one of its Registers at this day is still found this brief
record :
" 1616 — March 21. Rebecca Wrolfe, wyffe of Thomas Wrolfe,
gent. A Virginia lady borne, was buried in the chauncel."
These incidents of her life reveal a character of rare beauty
and worth. There is nothing of myth or legend, of the miracu
lous or incredible about them, save to disbelievers in the higher
/virtues of human nature. Except such of them as could be
known to Smith only, they rest on various and unimpugned au
thorities. On the faith of them, the Queen and Court of Eng
land, its highest and best people, and, in an especial manner, the
Bishop of London, bestowed on her marked and distinguished
attentions, inconceivable to have been extended to her, except
as the meed of extraordinary virtues, and that in the presence
and midst of many, who, had the testimonies to them been capa
ble of being disproved, could have readily furnished the means,
as some of them were known not to be wanting in the will, to
disprove them. And on the like faith in them. History, and
Poetry, and Art, have vied with one another in their several ways,
in investing her name, from that day to the present, with a halo
of surpassing brightness.
Now, at the end of two centuries and a half, the best known
and most dazzling, but hardly most honoring of these incidents —

POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS. 5
Smith's rescue before Powhatan — is impeached by some modern
critics^asj^ulous — most notably by Charles Deane^ LL. D'., ,to
whose careful and usually candid labors we owe so much, and, in
a very different spirit, by the Rev. E. D. Neill, D. D. The
latter writer, indeed, seems to have exhausted, in his chapter
entitled "Pocahontas and her Companions," all the arts of the
sugg^estio and the supprcssio, of innuendo and perversion, not
only to throw doubts on much of her hitherto all-accepted his
tory, but even to blur her good name ; nor, seemingly, without
effect, for a gentleman, whose long avowed dedication of his
pen to the sole service of what he esteems to be truth would
give almost irresistible weight to his conclusions, when unwarped
by prejudice or unbetrayed by false guides (Mr. Dawson, of
New York), has allowed himself to accept, and proclaim as true,
all adverse criticism anywhere arrived at, or surrrtised, both in
regard- to -Pocakontas and to Smith. He sumsjt all up in a few
words, yet so concise and comprehensive, that I cite them for
such comment as they seem to call for, and the scope of this
little work restricts me to. A pp&per reply to the more .elabo
rate mis-statements ofI)r,_^Neill, has been ably made by W. Wirt
Henry, Esq.
In some strictures he makes on Mr. Stephens's History of the
United States, Mr. Dawson arraigns that gentleman for " repeat
ing the exploded story of Pocahontas rescuing Captain Smith " ;
and " the old story of her alliance with Rolfe ; her vbyage to
England and death there, repeated in the same old form ; and
in utter defiance of tliejindoubted fact of her early lasciviousness,
of her marriage to an Indian, Her subsequent adultery with John
Rolfe, who was another woman's husband, and her ultimate death
while the wife, so-called, of one Thomas Wrothe; both her so-
called former husbands being yet living." [Hist. Magazine,
N. Y., Sep., 1873.J
This is surely the most amazing mixture of ignorance and
misrepresentation ever seen in print — wholly unaccountable for
except on one of the hypotheses I have before suggested. Let
us consider it. I will suppose that, at least, " the old story in the
old form" of the voyage and death of Pocahontas, are not among
the matters meant to be included in the sweeping " defiance" of
the facts concerning her imputed to Mr. Stephens by this writer.
The other points of the indictment (only remarking that I write

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remote from libraries, and from an imperfect armory of authori
ties, but furnishing all that I believe necessary to elucidate these
questions) I proceed to' notice, in turn, as presented :
" The exploded Story of Pocahontas rescuing Captain Smith."
Necessarily the story of the rescue must have come originally
from Smith. All the first published narratives of it are his, or
fairly referable to him. These publications are, in the order of
dates. His Letter to the Queen, 1616; his General History,
1624; Purchas's Pilgrimage, 1626; and his "New England
Trials, 1624," where it is referred to.
Its absence from the " True Relation," 1618, he may or may
not be responsible for. That was neither published nor super
vised hy him. There are points connected with it never yet, nor
probably ever, now, to be cleared up. Its first copies have as
many as three different fathers, all spurious or anonymous, and
the true publisher still remains unknown. That the body of the
book was Smith's there can be no doubt, but just as little that
no single passage can be asserted positively to be as he wrote it.
' It is apparent that it was published for a purpose, and it is avowed
\that parts of the original MS. were suppressed.
What was never in it, or what being in, this unknown editor
esteemed, as he has it, "fit to be private and suppressed," none
can ever know. Holding it quite unimportant either way, my
conjecture is, that the story was contained in it and suppressed.
By comparing the two accounts of Smith's reception by Powha
tan — " True Relation" and Smith's General History— it is seen,
as it strikes me, that the sudden and awkward transition from
the description of the scene in the former, " their heads painted
in redde, and with such a grave and majestical countenance, etc;
he kindly welcomed me, etc.," needs bridging over, and that this
need between a similar point in the description and Powhatan's
welcoming him as a friend, after two days' of suspense and ter
rorizing in the latter, is naturally supplied, and consisted, proba
bly, of this very story of the rescue. My conclusion, therefore, is,
that this story was in the MS., and of the matters the editor
thought fit to suppress; but, though not printed, was neverthe
less known, so that no surprise seems to have been occasioned
;by its appearance in the letter to the Queen.

POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS. 7
But in the dark as we are as to what was left out of, or may
have been put into, that publication, only with a certainty that it
was not an accurate reproduction of Smith's original, it is alike
illogical and unjust to hold Smith responsible for the presence or
absence, in it or from it, of any specific passage or fact incon
sistent with his own avowed statements.
The intimation, which has been thrown out that Smith gave the
preference over it, for insertion in his General History, to the nar
ratives of others accompanying the Oxford Map, as allowing
easier interpolation of the rescue story, is fully repelled, I think,
by the fact that to this original narrative, thus changed, he signed
his own initials, which were not appended to it before. Is it
credible, if he meant a fraudulent interpolation, he would have
done what would go far to defeat his object? On the contrary,
these initials recognized his responsibility for the story he added.
But there were obvious reasons for preferring the " Appendix"
to the " Relation." It was far better composed — far more com
prehensive — had undergone his own as well as Dr. Symond's
careful supervision, and was the work of other hands than his,
all of them witnesses and actors in the events they narrated,
while the "True Relation" was evidently scribbled off in a
hurry, probably in the very hour of the sailing of the ship. His
"Map, etc.," of 1612 was confined strictly to a description of
the country, and contained none of his personal adventures.
It would thus appear that the incident of his rescue by Poca
hontas in 1607, was first published by him in 1616, and repeatedly
afterwards, and the question arises whether it should be held
true, or, to use the language of Mr. Deane, as an " embellishment
and afterthought" — that is, false and fabulous. It is not likely
now that certainty in regard to it can be attained, and, as little,
that unanimity of opinion will be arrived at. So various are
men's minds, and their ways of viewing things and actions, that
only where there is no room for doubt, can such unanimity be
looked for. A large and kindlier way of viewing nnen's acts and
motives, and larger appreciation of the better elements of our
nature on the one hand, and a narrower and less trustful one on
the other, whether derived from nature or the result of experience
of different individuals, varying infinitely in degree, we see every
where around us ; and these dispositions, in the absence of con
clusive proofs, will color or shape opinions on all questions of

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men's conduct we have occasion to pass upon. Although it be
true that these tendencies may, on the one hand, lead to the yield
ing a too ready credence to marvels that should be relegated to
the domain of mylh, it is not less so, that on the other, they
generate a hypercritical fastidiousness, which as often rejects, as
false, what is only rare ; and I think it is observable that where
this latter tendency exhibits itself in the depreciation of the great
and famous, and disparagement of the good, pandering, as it
does, to the general vanity, and seeraing, by pulling down the
high, to lift up the common and the mean, it has a readier accept
ance among men, and is harder, for the same reason, to correct
and obliterate, even where shown to be unjust, than when the
error is in the opposite direction.
In this case, on the broadest concession that Smith gave no
publicity to the incident in question, anterior to its appearance in
his letter to the Queen, I perceive no sufficient warrant to im
peach its truth. When we remember who Smith was, and his
career, we seek in vain for an adequate motive for so paltry a
fabrication. Did his own fame require it ? Was not his whole
career one of known and proved adventure, exposure and hair
breadth escapes, of deeds of courage and address, and presence
of mind, in well known, real occurrences, done in pursuit of lofty
aims, attested and vouched by less questionable proofs and wit
nesses than history offers, perhaps, in the case of any other hero
of that age whom it holds up to our admiration ? Were not his
certain achievements such as, if unperformed, might have widely
changed even the history of the world ? Did not the vigor and
address with which he ruled alike the colonists and the savages
in their first and trying contact, mark him as one of the born
rulers of men and events? What worth to him was the^c/a/f of figu
ring in so relatively petty an occurrence? And while we may well
believe he desired. to say all he justly could to commend the
forlorn Indian girl, cast amid strangers and strange surroundings,
to the favor of the Queen and his countrymen, was there not
enough, well vouched and known to numbers, of noble and
charitable deeds, done by her to save the colony and other lives
besides his, of such rare value, as to render most improbable the
supposition he would fabricate a story thus alike unneeded for
his own fame or for hers ? And under what circumstances? He
was at the time in high employment by the Plymouth Company,

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and expecting advancement. Present in London, and cognizant
of the falsehood of the story, if false, were Pocahontas and Rolfe,
and Uttapotamoy, an old councillor of Powhatan, and who we
may fairly presume was present at the scene related by Smith.
Could he venture on a palpable falsehood in the presence of so
many who knew the facts, and could so easily blast his name and
hopes by exposing it, and who, if they did not, must share the
shame of it with him ? And even if we could believe the last
hypothesis admissible, supposing there were none present inter
ested to expose him, does it not become simply incredible when
we remember there were numbers of persons then in London,
inimical to Smith, delinquents, who had smarted under his disci
pline in Virginia, and eager for revenge (amongst them doubt
less Wingfield, his old and bitter enemy), who would have found
means to expose the audacious statement if untrue, and who yet,
so far as we can see, left it wholly unchallenged?
Again. — Was not the fact of the absence of the story from all
Smith's previous publications, if it were so, though new to us of
to-day, patent to all of that day on the appearance of Smith's
letter to tht Queen ? and could it have escaped comment and
exposure from the hundreds that must have been familiar with
them had it possessed any significance, or demanded any expla
nations that could not be and were not readily given ? Must not '
it especially have been known and observed by Purchas ? and
can we suppose its adoption by nim into his history, ("Wing
field himself and his writings being by him,") unless fully satis
fied of its truth ? Was he so hard run for material that he must
press refuted fables knowingly into its pages ? and yet what all
the world of that day, as far as we are informed, and with all the
Hghts before them, which we have now, seem to have recognized
for true, and all the world since, on the faith of that recognition,
have accepted as such, shall we now, at the instance, as I think,
of a hasty and somewhat presumptuous, quite possibly preju
diced, criticism, reject and discard as false ?
Was he not described and praised by the worthiest of those
that knew him, and witnessed and shared his labors, as a " God
fearing man," brave, wise and virtuous, and "the freest of all
men from the common vices of the time," and of such a man a
mere gratuitous fabrication is not predicable or credible except on
the clearest proof? However it may be fashionable, in the prig-

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gish censoriousness of the day, to sneer at him as a romancer, I
will risk its sneers in stating it as my belief that no history of
travel or adventure of its length can be found freer from incon
sistencies and inaccuracies, capable of being tested, than that of
Smith. It stands to day a substantial monument of truth and
trustworthiness, so buttressed by witnesses and verified by time,
in all the greater wonders and events it records, as to carry our
confidence in it also to those lesser ones it chronicles, where we
have less conclusive testimony. The petty specks that micro
scopic observers have pointed out in it are all reducible to the
tricks of time, memory, and the types, or, of those "optics keen,
'which see what is not to be seen." Except to such critics, its
mass of truth swallows up and assimilates such seeming imper
fections, which, like shadows in water, are due only to an im
perfect light.
Smith's defenders are not bound to furnish an explanation at
this late day, even of a plain discrepancy far less of a merely
inferred one. But several might be conjectured in this case more
admissible than a solution that concludes to deliberate falseho9d.
Might not an incident, that looms up to us, seated in carpeted
parlors, as so heroic and romantic in the distance, have hardly
cost Smith, in the presence of the great objects he was pursuing —
the highest man can aim at, the conversion of the heathen and
the founding of a State — of the many like perils he had escaped,
and the dangers that then hourly encompassed him, more than a.
passing thought ? or have given it publicity till the time arrived
which would naturally recall it to mind and make the use ofit
seasonable? Again, if it had been noticed in his "True Rela
tion," might not a leaf of it been dropped as it passed from hand
to hand, as is known to have happened to the celebrated " De
Imitatione," under precisely similar circumstances? Or might
not its mysterious editor have esteemed it one of the matters " fit
to be private,'' as possibly more calculated to deter emigration
(which it may have been his cue to advance), by showing how
narrowly Smith escaped death, rather than to further it by show
ing his escape from it ? Or, still more probably than all, might
not Smith, fresh from a three weeks' painful imprisonment, in
flicted on a false accusation of aiming to make himself King of
Virginia, have thought it wise to suppress the incident of this ten
der intercession for his life by Powhatan's daughter, lest it should

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receive this preposterous, yet none the less dangerous charge,
and again draw him into yet greater trouble than false witness,
hate and revenge had already involved him in ? Nor should such
a surmise be too hastily dismissed as absurd, when we know, as
we do, that Rolfe, years after, incurred the marked displeasure of
King James, and was actually " appealed as having committed
high treason ' ' for having married Pocahontas. Further, no
traditions or earlier histories contradict the story. All historians,
Virginian, British and American, except Neill, known to me, have
accepted it. It is in harmony with man's higher nature and with
internal probabilities, as well as with all the uncontested facts
come down to us, both of Powhatan and Pocahontas, and, indeed,
it, or some such occurrence, is so necessary to accoynt for the
extraordinary Jove and confidence suddenly shown by Pocahontas
towards Smith and the Colony, that if this incident were dis
proved, some other such one would have to be supposed in order
to explain them. What is there either wonderful or incredible
in the occurrence? Smith had been a captive with the Indians for
weeks. Of various knowledge, familiar with dangers, and full of
resource, he knew well how to impress with awe the simple
savages he had to deal with for dear life. It is unquestionable
that he did so impress them, and that they looked on him as a
being of some superior, if not supernatural, order.
'^ Sicut Dii," as Strachey quaintly expresses it, was the In
dian's estimate of the white man. Why not this young girl's ?
Yet this very imputed superiority made Smith, their leader, the
more dangerous to them. What more natural policy than for their
chief to declare forfeit the life that imperilled his and their safety?
Or is it at all surprising that a doting father should have yielded
to the entreaties of a darling child?. What terror was there for
her, to render her intercurrehce at all incredible, in the uplifted
clubs and painted savages which, however frightful to the fancies
of the pale-faces, were but playthings to her and the servitors of
her will ? The true heroism of the act was not in confronting
these, but in the tender compassionateness that led her to risk her
father's anger (over which she would seem, however, to have
well known her power,) and in the exemplifying of that angelic
mercy she so often afterwards displayed as to render the rejection
of itin this one instance alike captious and perverse.
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by the lights of the present. The realities of to-day would be
romance to the men of A. D. 1600. Why not the realities of
that day seem romance to this ? What to them would appear
more fantastic and incredible than Thought girdling the earth
in forty' hours, or men tran.';ported(habitualI^ sixty 'miles in as
many minutes, more than realizing the seven league boots,
or the deft feats of Ariel, which were the very creatures of
fancy of that day ? Wherefore, may not the, to us, romantic
stories of Smith or of Pocahontas, be as true as our more
incredible modern achievements would have been to them ?
It is absurd to put the printed and published histories of the
seventeenth century in the same category with the mythic tra
ditions, or MSS., of the Earlier and the Darker ages. And it
seems to me the demand of simple justice to receive such as have
long been uncontradicted and not disproved, and are consistent
with Nature, as substantially true. And especially should this be
so, as in the case of Smith, where the most, if not all the relations
received from him, susceptible of proof, have so stood the test, as
to have excited both the surprise and admiration of subsequent
historians. I hardly trust myself in closing these observations to allude to
the section from which the " new lights" I have commented on
mainly come. I fear I may myself be influenced contrary to my
wishes by the unworthiness I might impute. But the old in
herited quarrels of the Puritan and the Cavalier kept alive, to
some extent, in this country by sectiortal jealousies, have too often
led to mutual unwarranted flings and disparagements to render it
necessarily unjust to suppose they may have had their influence in
sharpening and poisoning the strictures on Smith and Poca
hontas — emanating and actively disseminated, as far as known to
me, only from Northern sources — which I have been engaged in
examining. The extra and special publication of Neill' s chapter
on " Pocahontas and her Companions," separate from his gen
eral history, at least shows that my supposition of a spirit at
the North ready to welcome the calumnies and misrepresenta
tions of which it is full, is not wholly without warrant. Yet all
Northern pens are not thus unjust.
Drake, a specialist in such investigations, at least as diligent as
any, and seemingly entirely conscientious, speaks of " the noble
and generous-minded Smith," stating the ground of his praise,

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cites from him his remark, praying "to be excused" if the ac
count ofthe plague (in his "Description of New England"),
being at "second hand, may not be true in all particulars," and
accords to him unqualified faith. The remarkable similarity
of all the earlier accounts of the Northern Indians, his inquiries
had made him acquainted with, with those of Smith of the
Southern — strongly corroborating the truth of both — no doubt
much, and justly, contributing to his confidence.
On the whole, the merits ascribed to Pocahontas rest at least
on a color of evidence, not contemporaneously contradicted,
while the flouts and sneers of late so freely flung on her fame,
rest on none, and more probably owe the taint on them to the
envy and vulgarity of the sources they flow from, than to the
object it is sought to be fastened on.
I believe, then. Smith's story of his rescue by Pocahontas. It
might be spared, indeed, as I have said, from the coronal of her
fame, and yet leave it one of almost unrivalled lustre. Still, as
being one of the brightest and best known of the jewels which
compose it, and rounding it off (so to speak) in harmonious
completeness, I have thought it should not be yielded up except
on clear disproof of her title to it, and not surrendered to the
mere inferences only, far short of conclusive, on which it has
been demanded, and which seem rather the outgrowth of un
friendly, if not carping, criticism, than demanded by the facts they
are deduced from. In giving my reasons for believing it, I have
been led into a defence of Smith, which were out of place here,
but that though the direct impeachment is of him, the indirect,
and obviously no less designed, depreciation is of Pocahontas also.
I think both unjust. The little world of us here wiH pass upon
the case, each according to his lights or object. To do so justly
and candidly is of more import to us than them. They have
already passed to judgment elsewhere, where our praise or blame
cannot reach. But for us remains judgment as we judge.
" The old Story of her Alliance with Rolfe"
If meant to imply that she was not married to him, must be held
to be a mere unadulterated calumny, aggravated by branding,
alike gratuitously, with falsehood the testimony of Governor
Dale, of Secretary Hamor, and the Rev. Alexander Whitaker,
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all history; and further suppose that not to the honored wife, but
to the tainted mistress of a mere plain EngUsh gentleman, were
paid those extraordinary attentions which, from the highest circles
and most distinguished ornaments of English society, both State
and Church, she undoubtedly received.
" The undoubted fact of her Early Lasciviousness."
Not a scintilla of warrant, so far as I am aware, exists to justify
this shameful charge. Strachey's phrase, " wanton young girls"
imported at that day no tincture of impurity — nor even now would
do so, unless required by the context. I might cite hundreds of
proofs, but Shakespeare's "little wanton boys, swimming on
bladders," and Bacon's '* houseful of children, one. or two of the
eldest respected, and the youngest made wantons!" where the
ascription of an impure meaning would desecrate the text, may
sufifice for instances without further loading the page. Strachey's
further hearsay statement (necessarily, for he did not arrive in
Virginia till 1610, leaving it in 1612, and Pocahontas never once
visited Jamestown after Smith's departure for England in 1609
till she was brought a captive there in 1613), that " Pocahontas,
Powhatan's daughter, sometymes resorting to our Fort of the age
then of 1 1 or 1 2 yeares,' ' and " throwing somersaults with the boys
in the streets," gives as litde countenance to the gross charge, for
he further relates that up to that age it was the custom among
the Indians for their children to go naked; but " after 12 yeares
they wear a kind of lethern apron and are very shame-faced to
be seen." And these are all the grounds known to me to fur
nish the shadow of support to the accusation. Yet it is on
grounds so flimsy and silly, that we find natures gross or mali
cious enough — some perhaps from mere inconsiderateness — to
blow their deflowering breath on a character which, from child
hood to the grave, has been perfumed and embalmed for its rare
and spotless virtues, by the admiring praise of all that knew her.
" Her Marriage to an hidian "
Is a mere blundering reading of Strachey. The passage is :
" They (the Indians) often reported to us that Powhatan had
then lyving 20 sonnes and 10 daughters * * besides young
Pocahonta, a daughter of his, using sometyme to our Fort in

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tymes past, of the age then of ii or 12 yeares, now married to a
private Captain Kocoum some two yeares since." Strachey was
writing his book in England from 1612 to 1618 or 19, as shown
by internal proofs (it would be too tedious to introduce here),
from notes made by him in i6io-'i2, when he was in Virginia.
There are many instances in it of his comments, at the time he
was writing, on transactions which occurred in Virginia. Here,
in referring to the statements of the Indians made to him in Vir
ginia respecting Pocahontas, he states, writing it no doubt in
1616 (omitting, as was common at that day, the proper paren
thetic marks), that she was married two years since to Cap
tain Kocoum, that is, simply, had married Rolfe two years
before, i. e. 1614, as she really had. " Kocoum, "per se, I admit,
is a hard nut to crack, but it is from the same eccentric mint that
turned " English " into " Tassantasses " and " Pocahontas " into
" Amonate" without any known warrant. Mishearing, miswrit-
ing, misprinting or mis-something, undoubtedly, occasioned it,
for I hold it for certain that "Rolfe" was aimed at, however
widely missed. Her charged "Adultery with Rolfe"
Is but the resultant of the careless blunder just exposed, and
may be dismissed with it to the just reprobation so shameful a
charge, unsupported, naturally evokes, with the single remark
that if, of old, the swift pursuers of a similar deHnquency, which
seems to have been undenied, were sharply checked in throwing
stones at the oflTender by Christ Himself, there seems no rebuke
too strong for those whose too fervid imaginations first invent an
uncommitted offence and then clamorously demand for it the
condemnation of the world.
''With John Rolfe."
Alike inexcusable, because alike unsupported, is the similar
charge against Rolfe, a man whose character is vouched, as we
have seen, by Dale, Hamor and Whitaker, men who knew him,
and who held, and were possibly entided to hold in the world's
esteem, as high a place even, as these modern defamers of his,
who did not ; but more convincingly still, avouched as to his
high and conscientious honor, his piety, purity and intelligence,
by his own modest and ingenuous letter to Dale ; and as to his

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most respectable abilities, as well by his letter to the King and
Council, as by their appointment of him to the second office of
importance in the colony.
" Who wa.i another woman's husband, and her ultimate death
while the wife, so-called, of one Thomas Wrothe."
Similar loose and careless blundering characterizes both these
statements. "Wrothe," " Wrolfe," " Rolfe," are aU but different
readings, by different eyes, of an old and probably ill -written
entry in the Gravesend Register. While the charge of Rolfe
being the husband of Pocahontas, when he was at the same time
the husband of another woman, is founded only, so far as I can
see, on his brother's application for maintenance of his "Relict
and children." What more obviously or reasonably removes
the fancied difficulty, than to suppos.e with Bishop Meade — Poca
hontas having died in 1616, and Rolfe in 1622 — that he had
married again, after Pocahontas's death, and left "a relict and
children" to be cared for ?
Some there will always be (whom the light offends), to find a
congenial pleasure in seeking to sully the heroic ideals of the
past, and dim the splendor that encircles every illustrious name ;
and tales of calumny, from whatever motive first fabricated, seem
far apter to live, and blur a good name, than the opposite senti
ments of love and admiration are to unduly adorn a bad one.
Where they are believed unfounded, it is but due to the dead to
confute them, if we can — still more due to the Hving, which can
not afford to allow the higher exemplars of our race to be un
justly pulled down.
This, I think, has been attempted towards Pocahontas. But
I do not allow myself to believe that one who, though a born
barbarian, bore herself according to all known testimony stain
less and beloved in her native woods ; modestly and virtuously
when in the care and society of the best English blood that ever
came to this country ; faultlessly and lovingly as a wife; and who
was received and treated with eminent distinction bv the Court,
and best people of London, and with such " civilitie" so carried
herself in its society, as to both charm and surprise it, up to and
in the very moment of her death — shining like a star out of the
dark back-ground of her original barbarism, and irradiating her
whole career with the ceaseless glow of charitable deeds — such

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a one, the better and purer world will not lighdy cease to regard
as the "nonpareil," she was reported to be, of her own tribe,
but as an honor, also, to her kind.
I append from the Southern Literary Messenger, Richmond,
August, i860, "The marriage of Pocahontas; notes on the date
of Pocahontas's marriage and some other incidents of her life."
Read before the Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society by
Wyndham Robertson, Esq. : '
The date of this event, though of little historic importance,
yet as a point of history, as well as for other reasons, is not
wholly devoid of some curiosity and interest. Although the
most incontestible authorities exist whereby to fix it, it is yet
singular that an error in regard to it has been so often repro
duced as to seem, now, almost imbedded in history. Almost all
authorities concur in referring it to April, 1613. Stith says "it
was inthe beginning of April, 1613" (page 130); Beverley says,
" Pocahontas being thus married inthe year 1613" (page 28) ;
Howison has " 16 13, early in April ; " Sims (page 335), "Spring
ofi6i3;" Hilliard, in Sparks' Biography, " beginning of April,
1613 (Volume II, page 371,) and Campbell, so late as the present
year (i860), says " early in April, 161 3" (page 109).
Yet it is demonstrable that it took place about the 5th April,
1614. These writers doubtless reposed on the authority of Smith.
But I will show hereafter that he was probably under no mistake,
and only seemed to have been by the (probably accidental) mis
placing of a marginal note.
About the time of her capture there can be no room for mis
take. We have the letter of Captain (Sir Samuel) Argall him
self, its date, June, 1613, in 4 Purchas, page 1764, et seq. It is
there stated that he sailed from England "23d July, 1612";
arrived in Virginia "17th September"; visited Smith's Island
" beginning of November"; went to Pembrook river " ist De
cember"; returned to Jamestown "ist January" (necessarily
1613); "arrived at Point Comfort ist February;" returned to
Pembrook river "17th March," thence to Patowameck ; cap
tured " Pokahuntis" by treachery; departed with her " 13th of
April" for Jamestown, and delivered her to Governor Gates.

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Again departed in his shallop for discovery " the ist of May " ;
returned to his ship "May 12th, 1613" (in margin), and was
then, when he wrote, "June, 1613," waiting for a "wind" to
go on his "fishing voyage." There is nothing known to me
anywhere in conflict with any statement of this letter, but it is
entirely in accord with every date and statement come down to
us from that period.
We have, then, the date of Pocahontas' s capttire fixed a little
before, and her delivery at Jamestown a Httle after, the thirteenth
April, 161 3. Of course her marriage to Rolfe could not have
occurred i";^!? "-first," the "fifth," " the beginning" or ''early"
in April, 161 3.
All agree that she was "long" a prisoner before her mar
riage. Let us then foUow the accounts of her, and learn how long.
The original authorities (and there could be none higher) are
Governor Dale and Ralph Hamor, Secretary of the Colony, and
the Rev. Mr. Whitaker. Captain Smith but compiles from
them. Dale succeeded Gates as Governor in February, or
March, 1614, when the latter returned to England (4 Purchas,
page 1773 ; Stith, page 132), and in a letter, under date of " i8th
Ju7ie, 1614," sent to England by Captain Argall, (in 4 Purchas,
pages 1768-9,) says " Sir Tliomas Gates having embarked him
self for England, * * * i put niyself into Captain Argall's
ship * * and went into Pamunkee river, where Powhatan
hath his residence * * with me, I carried his daughter, who
had been long prisoner with us." After sundry delays, " came
one from Powhatan, who told us * * * that his daughter
should be my child, and can dwell with me," &c. He then
proceeds :
"Powhatan's daughter I (had) caused to be carefully in
structed in the Chrisdan religion, who, after she had made some
good progress therein, was, as she desired, baptized, and is
since" [i. e., since her baptism,) "married to an EngHsh Gen
tleman," &c.
The marriage, therefore, was, by this authority, between March
and f une, 161 4.
Accordant is Master Whitaker's letter (the Minister at James
town), dated also " Virginia, i8th July, 1614," ("True Dis
course," page 59; 4 Purchas, page 1768.) " Sir, The Colonie is

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much better. Sir Thomas Dale, our * * Governour, * *
hath brought them " (our enemies) "to seeke for Peace of us,
which is made. * * But that which is best, one Pocahontas,
or Matoa, the daughter of Powhatan, is married to an honest
and discreete English gendeman. Master Rolfe, and that after she
had openly renounced her country idolatry, professed the faith
of Jesus Christ, and was baptized, which thing Sir Thomas Dale
had laboured a long time to ground in her."
Next, and fullest, is the authority of " Ralphe Hamor, the
younger, late Secretarie in that Colonie," under Dale ("True Dis
course," page 3). Hamor sailed for Virginia, with Sir Thomas
Gales, in June, 1609 (4 Purchas, page 1734); suffered shipwreck
with him on the Bermudas, and arrived out May, 1610 (4 Pur
chas, page 1743) ; accompanied Governor Dale in his expedition
to Pamaunkee, March, 1614; was afterwards "employed to
Powhatan," May, 1614, (Dale's letter in 4 Purchas, page 1769,)
and returned to England with Argall, June, 1614. His "True
Discourse" was written directly after his return to England.
(See his address "To the Reader," where he speaks ofthe
Colony as under the command of Governor Gates and Governor
Dale " three years and more." Gates took charge ofthe Colony
in August, 161 1.) His account of the capture of Pocahontas is
almost absolutely the same with Argall's own, except a little fuller
perhaps, and except a trivial variation as to the lapse of time,
after her capture, before Powhatan sent in the seven Englishmen
(and which, his writing, as he says he does (" To the Reader,")
" without notes, but in memorie" sufficiently accounts for ; but
which variation only goes still more certainly to fix the marriage
after April, 1613.) After stating that a message had been sent
to Powhatan to acquaint him with the capture of Pocahontas, he
proceeds thus : " He (Powhatan) could not, without long delibe
ration with his council, * * resolve upon anything, and * *
we heard nothing of him till three months after * * he sent
us seven of our men, * * and word that whensoever we
pleased to deliver his daughter he would give us satisfaction,
* * five hundred bushels of corn, and be forever friends with
us. * * We returned him answer * ^ that his daughter
was very well and kindly intreated, and so should be however he
delt with us, but we could not believe the rest of our arms were
stolen or lost, and till he returned them all, we would not by any

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means deliver his daughter. * * This answer, as it seemed,
pleased him not very weH, for we heard no more from him till in
March last, when, with Captain Argall's ship, * * Sir Thomas
Dale * * went up into his own river * * and carried with
us his daughter," etc.
Now observe this is written in 1614, just after Hamor's return
to England in June of that year. When was that " March last"
but (according entirely with the date of Governor Dale's expe
dition, as fixed above by the Governor's own letter) March, 1614 ?
His account proceeds more circumstantially, and more clearly,
than Governor Dale's, but in entire accord with it, and is that of
an eye-witness, or as he calls himself, "Ocular testis," and as it
is at once original and entertaining, as well as curious and rare,
I give it in full.
He introduces his "True Discourse" (page 3,) on the " firme
Peace that hath been so happily concluded" by "inserting" as
"in no whit impertinent" thereto "the indeavors of Captain"
Argall," viz : his visit to lapazeus at Pataomecke, and capture
there of Pokahuntus — following it with an account of Governor
Dale's expedition to, arrival, and proceedings at Pamaunkee, and
continues as follows :
" Higher up the river we went, and ancored neere unto the
chiefest residence Powhatan had, at a town called Matchcot,
where were assembled (which we saw) about 400 men, well ap
pointed with their bowes and arrowes to welcome us; here they
dared us to come ashoare, a thing which we purposed before, so
ashoare we went, our best landing being up a high steepe hill,
which might have given the enemy much advantage against us,
but it seemed, they as we, were unwilling to begin, and yet would
gladly have been at blowes; being landed, as if they had no show
of feare, they sdrred not from us, but walked up and downe, by
and amongst us, the best of them inquiring for our Weroance or
King, with whome they would gladly consult to know the occa
sion of our coming thither, whereof when they were informed,
they made answer that they were there ready to defend them
selves, if we pleased to assault them, desiring neverthelesse some
smaH time to dispatch two or three men once more to their King,
to know his resolution, which if not answerable to our request
in the morning if nothing else but blood would then satisfy us,

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they would fight with us and thereby determine our quarrell,
which was but a further delay to procure time to carrie away
their provisions, nevertheless we agreed to this their request, as
suring them till the next day by noon, we would not molest, hurt,
nor detain any of them, and then before we fought, our Drums
and Trumpets should give them warnings, upon which promise
of ours, two of Powhatan's sonnes being very desirous to see
their sister, who was there present ashoare with us, came unto us,
at the sight of whom, and her wellfare, whom they suspected to
be worse intreated, though they had often heard the contrary,
they much rejoiced, and promised that they would undoubtedly
persuade their father to redeem her, and to conclude a firme
peace forever with us, and upon this resolution the two brothers
with us, retired aboarde, we having first dispatched two Eng
lishmen, Maister John Rolfe and Maister Sparkes to acquaint
their Father with the business in hand, the next day being kindly
intreated, they returned, not at all admitted Powhatan's presence,
but spake with his brother Apachamo, his successor, one who
hath already the command of all the pepple, who likewise prom
ised us his best indeavors to further our just request, and we
because the time of the yeere being then Aprill, called us to our
business at home to prepare the ground, and set corne for our
winter's provision, upon these terms departed, giving them re
spite till harvest to resolve what was left for them to doe, with this
promise, that if finall agreement were not made betwixt us be
fore that time, we would thither return againe and destroy and
take away all their corne, burne all the houses upon the river,
leave not a fishing weire standing, nor a canoa in any creeke
thereabout, and destroy and kill as many of them as we could.
Long before this time a gentleman of approved behaviour and
honest carriage, Maister John Rolfe had bin in love with Poca-
huntas, and she with him, which thing at the instant that we
were in parlee with them, myself made knowne to Sir Thomas
Dale by a letter from him, whereby he intreated his advise and
furtherance in his love, if sp it seemed fit to him for the good of
the Plantation, and Pocahuntas herselfe, acquainted her brethren
therewith, which resolution Sir Thomas Dale wel approving, was
the only cause; he was so milde amongst them, who otherwise
would not have departed their river without other conditions.
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tan's knowledge, a thing acceptable to him, as appeared by his
sudden consent thereunto, who some ten days after sent an olde
oncle of hers, named Opachisco, to give her as his deputy in the
church, and two of his sonnes to see the marriage solemnized,
which was accordingly done about the fift of April, and ever
since we have had friendly commerce and trade, not only with
Powhatan himself, but also with his subjects round-about us; so
as now I see no reason why the Collonie should not thrive
apace. ' '
These are the only original sources of correct information in
regard to the capture, detention, baptism and marriage of Poca
hontas, known to me, and, I think, conclusively show that she
was kidnapped at Patowomeek in April, 1613, was detained
" long " in captivity, was taken to Pamaunkee in March, 1614,
brought back to Jamestown about ist April, was then baptized,
and was married to Rolfe "about the fifth of April," one thou
sand six hundrea ajid fourteen.
It is, perhaps, of little importance to show how the common
mistake originated, but by the Hght afforded by these excerpta,
from the original authorities, it is not, I think, difficult. The
source of the mistake is probably found in Smith's General His
tory (the edition of 1626 is the one before me), page 113. Smitli
is reciting from, and abridging, Hamor's "True Discourse."
The year of Sir Samuel Argall's arrival out in Virginia, is cor
rectly given, in his margin, 1612, but he goes on, under the same
marginal year, to give an account of Argall's expedition to
Patowomeek, and kidnapping of Pocahontas, which, as we have
seen above, took place, not in 1612, but in the spring of the
following year, 1613. There then follows, in Smith (still re
writing and abridging Hamor's " Discourse,") an account of
both Argall's and Dale's expeditions, but without the dates,
" April 13," of the former, and " March last," ofthe latter, which
fix the years, and opposite the account ofthe marriage in Smith,
is this marginal note.* Now the marginal dates in this compila
tion from Hamor, have reference to the Tieasurership of Sir
Thomas Smith, and they are not found in Hamor's work. But
the text of the original authorities conclusively shows that the
* "The marriage of Pocahontas to Master Joh-n Rolfe, 16 13. Sir
Thoinas Smith, Treasurer."

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date just cited — 1613 — belonged to the commencement ofthe ac
count of Argall's expedition as given on the previous page of
Smith, and was, doubtless, by some accident or inadvertance,
printed where we now find it. Seeing the date, 1613, after the
marginal notice of Pocahontas'' s marriage, and opposite the par
agraph in which is the account of it, with nothing to excite dis
trust of, and, quite possibly, with no means of collating, the
original accounts, and thus correcting the error, our earlier his
torians naturaHy adopted the date thus seemingly given by Smith
as that of- the marriage, and have been followed by later ones,
without examination.
The omission by Smith (General History, page 115) of the
introductory sentence to Hamor's account of the latter's mission
in "May" to Powhatan, has served to seemingly separate, and
widely disconnect, the date of the latter event from that of the
marriage; and, accordingly, all the histories, while they assign
(erroneously as before shown) Pocahontas's marriage to 161 3,
assign, rightly, Hamor's mission to 1614. That sentence is as
follows : " I purposely omitted one thing in the Treatisse of our
Concluded Peace, wherewith I intend to conclude my discourse,
* * * and this it is." He then proceeds with the account
of his visit, as compiled from him in Smith and all the other
Histories, and plainly, and inevitably, connects it with the
"Peace" of which he has been treating (page 11 et seq^, which
Peace (the immediate fruit of Pocahontas's marriage) was con
cluded as above shown recently before the dispatches of Gover
nor Dale and Mr. Whitaker, June i8th, 1614. In a word, Ha
mor's Mission was in the May following the April of Pocahontas's
marriage, and immediately before the June of Hamor's return to
England, 1614. (See " True Discourse," page 37).
John Rolfe.
John Rolfe is now mainly remembered as the husband of Poca
hontas, but was undoubtedly one of the Capital Figures of the
great epoch — the first permanent English settlement in North
America — with which he is so nearly associated. Yet his name
remains almost obscured in history (though all the more imper
ishable) in the dazzHng and never-lessening brightness of that of
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world, to that rare Flower of the Wilderness, which the gardens
of civihzation hardly rival, and that scion of Nature's nobility,
than which the long-descended genealogies of Heraldry offer
nothing nobler. But if she doth thus draw off from him the sym
pathetic regards of all lovers of the good and beautiful, yet do
they still often revert, with admiring respect, to one who was
quick to see, as he was assiduous to cultivate, the rare worth of
the Indian maid, and who, having turned her from Heathendom,
boldly faced the prejudices of race, and with the approval of his
Government — inthe presence of the Governor — of his own coun
trymen, and of her rude kinsmen of the Forest — in the sight of
aU men — in the first Christian church erected in the Dominion of
Virginia by the ministration of one of the first in time, and not
the last in worth, of the pioneers of Christianity in the New
World, the Rev. Mr. Whitaker — made her his wife. There are
many forms of heroism, and this is one of tbem. Not secretly,
not shame-facedly, but openly, and avowing and recording the
high, pure, and loving motives and feelings which actuated him
"to sweepe,'' as he says, "and make cleane the path wherein I
walke, from all suspicions and doubts," sp that neither present
nor after times might justly " taxe or taunt" with "sinister res
pects alluring him thereunto," he united himself with that noble
savage in Christian wedlock.
Quaint, and quite unfashionably made up, Rolfe' s letter to the
Governor, detailing " the grounds and principall agitations which
thus should provoke me to be in love," and asking his approba
tion, carries with it irresistible internal evidence as well of the
scrupulous probity of his principles, as of the singular candor
and disinterestedness of his nature, and the heroism of his char
acter. It maybe found at large by the curious, in the "True
Discourse of the present Estate of Virginia," "written by Raphe
Hamor, the younger, late Secretary in that Colony " (London,
1615), himself an illustrious cotemporary and friend of Rolfe.
An extract or two may suffice here :
" Let therefore this, my well advised protestadon, which here
I make betweene God and my own conscience, be a sufficient wit
ness, at the dreadfull day of judgment (when the secret of all
men's harts shall be opened), to condemne me herein, if my
chiefest intent and purpose be not, to strive with aU my power of
body and minde, in the undertaking of so mighde a matter, no

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way led (so farre forth as man's weakeness may permit) with the
unbridled desire of camali affection : but for the good of this
plantation, for the honour of our countrie, for the glory of God,
for my owne salvation, and for the converting to the true knowl
edge of God and Jesus Christ, an unbeleeving creature, namely,
Pocahontas. To whom my hartie and best thoughts are, and
have a long time bin so entangled and inthralled in so intricate a
laborinth, that I was even awearied to unwinde myselfe there
out." He attests further, ' ' Serena mea conscientia, the cleereness of
my conscience, clean from the filth of impurity, quo est instar
muri ahensi, which is, unto me, as a brasen wall " ; " Nor," adds
he, " am I in so desperate an estate, that I regard not what be-
commeth of mee ; nor am I out of hope but one day to see my
country, nor so void of friends, nor mean in birth, but there to
obtain a mach to my great content."
But if testimony of' his high merit, from a less interested
source than his own letters, however intrinsically convincing, were
yet wanted, it is abundantly furnished. As by that "noble
Knight," Sir Thomas Dale, "a man of great knowledge in Divi
nity, and of a good conscience in all his doings," the wisest and
most pious of the earlier Governors of Virginia — (who raised
her out of almost the depth of despair, to the " most assured
hopes"; placed her peace with the Indians on the firmest basis,
and, in great part, through Rolfe' s marriage to Pocahontas; and
left her in a state of prosperity theretofore unexampled)^-who
describes Rolfe, in a few strong words, as " an English gendeman
of good understanding" — by the reverend and devoted Master
Whitaker (sometimes styled the "Apostle of Virginia,") who
speaks of him as "an honest and discreete English gentleman,"
and by Hamor, who describes him as " a gentleman worthie of
much commendation," with much, besides, to the same effect.
But his title to the highest respectability and consequence in
connection with the settlement of Virginia is further shown, and
put beyond question, by a historic letter of his to the King, writ
ten by him when in London with his wife, Anno 1617, under the
name ofa Report ofthe Condition of the Colony when he left it,
but containing besides numerous suggestions to his Majesty of
such modifications of the Government of Virginia as he deemed
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these were esteemed, may be well inferred from the fact that the
place of "Secretary and Recorder- General of Virginia" was
then first insUtuted for, and filled by him. At a later period, he
was a member of the Governor's Council, which is the latest
notice of him I have met with. Dying in 1622, he left a will, of
record, and which is still extant.
In a memoir designed ecpecially to pay due honor to his name,
the fact that he was the first of the English Colonists to plant
tobacco, would seem such a one as should by no means be over
looked, and the rather that the historical credit of first introduc
ing its culture has been incorrectly asserted for Governor Yeardly
by reason of his having, some years later. Anno 1616, recom
mended the raising of it ; and it deserves remark that Yeardly
w-as then residing at Bermuda Hundred, opposite Henrico, where
Rolfe lived. Looking to the rapid rise and finally vast dimensions
of the trade in it, the man who first applied European skill and
energy to the culture of it, would seem, at least, not less worthy
to be remembered in history than he who first set a conspicuous
example of the use of it. Yet, while all the world knows, from
a hundred sources, that Raleigh enjoys the latter distinction, few
are aware that to Rolfe belongs the former. Yet Hamor, almost
the earliest in point of time, and the second of none in point of
authority, of the annalists of Virginia (having for his theme the
planting of tobacco), signalizes the fact alluded to, and shows his
sense of the importance of it, in the following remarkable words :
"I may not forget the gentleman, worthie of much commenda
tions, which first tooke the pains to make triall thereof, his name
• Mr. John Rolfe, Anno Domini 1612, partly for the love he hath«a
long time borne to it, and partly to raise commoditie to the ad
venturers in whose behalf, I witness and vouchsafe my testimony
in beliefe that during the time of his aboade there, which draweth
near upon six yeares, no man has labored to his power, by good
' example there, and worthy encouragement into England by his
letters than he hath done," It may be truly said, doubtless, that
some one else would have set the example if he had not, and not
less truly that some one else would, doubdess, have discovered
America if Columbus had not. But, I think, we may not, justly,
therefore, derogate from the merit of the men who are, actually,
the first to open new paths to their kind, of wealth and power.
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Australia — that which alone of their products overbalanced by its
rich returns all the disadvantages, dangers and ennui of a new
settlement, and served still to revive anew hope, fortitude and
energy in the breasts of the disappointed and discontented colo
nists — when we recollect that the colony more than once was re
duced to absolute despair, and on the point of being abandoned
— may we not safelv refer to this new subject of industry, a saving
power over its destinies, and justly concede to him who led the
way in apprehending and proving its value, a niche among the
benefactors of their race, and, with Smith and Dale, among the
true founders of Virginia ?
The name Rolfe is Danish, which, softened by the clime, be
came "Rollo" in Normandy. It first occurs in history about
A. D. 600, when Rolf Krake was King of Denmark. [It is
worth the parenthesis to repeat, from a Scandinavian writer, that
" The graces of his person are said to have equalled those of
his mind, and his stature and strength to have been so extraor
dinary that he was surnamed Krake, an old Danish word ex
pressive of those qualities."] It was brought to England in the
person of Rolfe, or Rollo, who accompanied one of the first (I
believe the first, but have mislaid my reference) Vykings who
overran England. Without seeing reason to claim, or to dis
claim, for John Rolfe descent either from the King or the Count,
we think he may very fairly be presumed to have sprung from
some Danish family (not "a mean one" as he states) of that
name, one of the many of that race, who remained permanently
in England after the Danish conquest.
From a time lost in the mists of the Past, the Rolfes have
resided in the County of Norfolk, where still, on their ancestral
possessions, still many reside. From that county and stock John
Rolfe emigrated to Virginia.
When I add that so much of further merit was Rolfe' s, as to
have left a worthy son (noticed below), I have finished the brief
memoir intended, quantum valeat, to aid in rescuing his name
from its too obscure place in history, and said enough, I trust,
to vindicate the justness of the remark with which I set out, that
John Rolfe was not merely the husband of Pocahontas, but, in
truth, one of the capital characters of his time.
Since writing the above, I have met with an interesting arUcle

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on the Rolfe's, contributed to a Northern magazine ("Wide
Awake," November, 1886,) by Mrs. Raymond Brathwayte, an
English lady, which goes to corroborate my own ideal prognosis
of the family, and enables me to add some authentic and in
teresting facts respecting them. They are first mentioned in
Domesday Book (eleventh century). Of this special branch
there is a record of them as owners of Heacham, in Norfolk,
where they still Hve, as far back as 1560, and the first entry on
it is of the marriage of Eustace Rolfe and Joanna (Jener), the
grandparents of John Rolfe. I append the registry as given by
Mrs. Brathwayte : *
1560. Married Eustacius Rolfe and Joanna Jener, 27th May.
'' 1562. Baptized John, flius Eustacius Rolfe, 17th October.
1582. Married Johannes Rolfe and Dorothea Mason, 24th September.
<--- 1585. Baptized Eustacius and John, 7?//^ Johannes Rolfe, 6th May.
i,s85. Buried Eustacius, flius Johannes Rolfe, 2d June.
1591. Baptism Edwardus, ^//aj Johannes Rolfe, 22d February.
1593. Buried Eustacius Rolfe.  June.
1594. Buried Johannes Rolfe, ist December.
1594. .Married Robertus Redmayn and Dorothea Rolfe, 9th March.
1625. Died Robertus Redmayn.
We learn from this that John was a twin, boMi 6th May, 1585,
and son of John Rolfe and Dorothea Mason. Agreeing with
Mrs. Brathwayte, to use her words, that it will be " intjsresUng to
know the character of the father of him who has been himself
described as an honest and well reputed gentleman," I cite
her extracts from " the inscription on brass belonging to his
* Rolfe is the same name, or most probably of the same origin, as
Raife, Ralph, Rolph, and other variations. According to Camden
[Remaines Concerning Britaint, page 85, edition 4to., 1637) it is con
tracted from Radulph, and like Rodulph signified " Helpe Councill."
'Q^'[\s.^ (General Armoury, edition 1847,) gives us the armorial bearings
of Rolfe of Heacham Hall, County Norfolk, as borne by S. C. E.
Neville Rolfe, of Heacham Hall, Esq., who took the name and arms of
Rolfe by royal license, 19th April, 1837, on coming into the possession
of the property of the late Edward -Rolfe, of Heacham Hall, Esq.
Quarterly, first and fourth, gyronny of eight, or and az. on a chief sa.
three amulets, ar. ; second and third, gu. five mascles in fesse ar.
within a bordure ar. Crests— Y\x&i, a lion's head erased ; second, on
a mount a crescent, therefrom issuant a rose slipped. ^A'^ze/ England
Historical Genealogical Register, April, 184^, page 14^. R. A. B.

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tomb." " It is in Laun. Translated, it runs to this effect ; that
he profited his own family much while he remained in life ; he
wished all his neighbors and relations, through himself, to be of
greater worth by helping the poorer with his means. Nothing
could be more amiable than he. The reproaches of many he
bore, gently bore, without offence of mind." His death oc
curred very suddenly, in the November of the year following
that of his father. In the inscription it is likened "to the
extinguishment of a volume of flame by a mass of water, for he
was of healthy strength, and when dying had not completed
many years (32). His death caused grief to many, but it fared
very nobly with him, whom a consciousness of a life well spent,
and a record of many good deeds, does not suffer to perish."
From the same source we learn that he had to do with the mer
chant service: "By trading as a merchant, he increased his
family estate with the export and import of things which Eng
land either abounded with or wanted ; he afforded very great
service, since, in these matters, he devoted his care and energy."
W. R.
Fir.st in Descent.
1. Thomas Rolfe, 5. 1615 ; d. 16—; tn. "Jane Poythress;" left issue
one child only, a daughter.
Thomas Rolfe was taken charge of, soon after the death of his
mother, by his uncle, Henry Rolfe, of London, where, and by
whom, he was brought up to manhood. Shortly after, he de
cided to return to Virginia, where he was born, and did so in
1640. There is Httle doubt but that he settled there on his patri
monial property, "Varina," near Henricopolis, sixteen miles
below Richmond. One, of the two only incidents of his Hfe of
which we have any record, strongly confirms this supposidon.
Both of these incidents are much to his honor, and corroborate
the description of him given by the historian Stith, as having
been a man of " Fortune and Distinction in the colony." One we
give, for its quaintness, in the form in which it is recorded. In
Hening's Statute at Large, Volume I, page 327, we find (Act 2),
after reciting that the " maintaineing of thefforts, &c., are thought
to be of great consequence, in point of honour and security ofthe
colony, and yet of too great burthen of the inhabitants," it is
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quantity of land, be granted to particular undertakers," &c., and
proceeds as follows : " And be it further enacted and granted
that Left. Thomas Rolfe shall have and enjoy for himselfe and
his heires forever ffort James als Chickahominy fort, with foure
hundred acres of land adjoyning to the same, with all houses and
edifices belonging to the said forte, and all boats and ammunition
at present belonging to the said ffort: provided that the said
Leift. Rolfe ,doe keepe and malntaine sixe men upon the place
duringe the terme and time of three yeares, for which tyme he^
the said Leift. Rolfe, for himselfe and the said sixe men, are
exempted from publique taxes." (Henricopolis was but a short
distance from the Chickahominy.) The reposing in him a trust
of such importance at that time by the government, and re
quiring no small resources to execute it sufiiciently, attest that he
was a man possessing substantial means, brave, loyal, and pos
sessing the public confidence. The other incident recorded of
him is the grandng him by the Governor, on his petition, of per
mission to visit his Indian kinsfolk, showing that the manhood,
generosity, humanity and superiority to vulgar, prejudice or cen
sure, which so pre-eminently distinguished his father, were not
dishonored or wanting in his son.
I adopt "Jane Povthress" (not Poyers),* whom he is
stated in the " Boiling Memoirs" to have married in England :
I. Because no such name as " Poyers" is anywhere known, so far
as I arn advised. 2. Because the family of Poythress was already
settled in Virginia, and in the immediate neighborhood of Rolfe's
residence at Henricopolis (but a ie^^ miles below, and on the
opposite side of the river) — Francis Poythress appearing as a
member of the House of Burgesses, A. D. 1644, for Charles City
(then includmg both sides of James river at those points). 3.
Because there is no reference or tradition known of Rolfe having
brought a wife with him from England. And 4. Because in a
work, " Sandringham," concerning the families of Norfolk, Eng
land, and amongst them the Rolfes, the eminent author, Mrs.
Herbert Jones, states that Thomas Rolfe came to Virginia when
about 20 or 25, and m,arrie.d there. W. R.

* Poyers or Pyers, one of the forms of spelling the modern Pierce or
Peirce. The third wife of John Rolfe was Jane, daughter of Lieutenant
William Poyers, Pyers or Peirce, of Jamestown, Virginia. R. A. B.

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Second in Descent.
2. Jane Rolfe, b.  ; d. 1676 ; m. 1675 Col. Robert BoBing ; b. 1646 ;
d. 1709, and left issue one child only, a son.
Robert Boiling, the first of the name in Virginia, was the son
of John and Mary Boiling, of All Hallows, Barkin Parish, Tower
street, London. John was of tbe Boilings of Boiling Hall, near
Bradford, England, who trace back their descent to Robert Boi
ling, Esquire, who, in the reign of Edward IV, owned that 'oeau-
tiful seat, and who, dying in 1485, was buried in the family vault
in Bradford church. His coat of arms is affixed on his tomb,
and being the only one in the church, he was presumably the
builder or chief benefactor of it. The Robert of this notice came
to Virginia in i56o, vvhen not yet fifteen years of age— seems to
have early attained to fortune and prominence — and at twenty-
nine, married Jane Rolfe. She dying, he married Miss Anne,
daughter of Drury Stith. He lived and died at " Kippax," a fine
seat on James river, below Petersburg, now in ruins ; but his
remains were removed thence bya great-grandson (by his second
marriage) in 1858, to a mausoleum, erected by the latter in
Blandford Cemetery. I find no further special notice of Jane
Rolfe. Third in Descent.
3. John Bolling, of "Cobbs" (Colonel), b. i6-j6; d. 1729 (Member of
the House of Burgesses); m. Mary Keunon, daughter of Dr. Ken-
non, of " Conjuror's Neck " (Member of the House of Burgesses),
and left issue, one son and five daughters.
Colonel John Boiling settled, lived and died at " Cobbs,'' on the
Appomattox, below Petersburg. He engaged in commerce, and
while conducting an "extensive and gainful trade" with his
countrymen, and a yet larger one with the Indians (equally his
countrymen), "partook freely at the same time of all the pleasures
of society, for which his gay and lively spirit eminently adapted
him. Being once, in England, at a feast given him by a kinsman,
a Yorkshire lady, hearing him talk, exclaimed in Yorkshire dia
lect, " Oh, mine Got, you no hear dat man, and he talk EngHsh
as well as we." " Yes, faith madam, and I hope much better, or
I would not talk at all," was his hasty, and not overgallant, reply:
" whereat all did laugh merrily."

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Fourth in Descent.
4. John Bolling (Major), M. H. B.,J. P., b. 1700; d. Sept.
6, 1757; »z., Aug. I, 1728, Elizabeth, daughter of Dr.
Archibald Blair, and niece of the Commissary James
Blair. D. D., founder of William and Mary College,
and left issue. [The " Cobbs " family Bible states
that Eliz'h (Blair) Boiling m. 2dly  Bland, and
t/. April 22, 1775. R. A. B.] (See Notice A) 
4. Jane Bolling, b. 1703 ; d. 1766; m. Col. Richard Ran
dolph, of " Cudes " ; b. 1690; d. 1748 (M. H. B. and
Treasurer of Virginia). (See Notice B) 
4. Mary Boiling, A. 1711; d.  ; m. Col. John Flem
ing, of " Mount Pleasant" (M. H. B. and Treasu
rer) ; b. 1697 ; d. Nov. 7, 1766, son of Charles Flem
ing, and grandson of Sir Thos. Fleming, son of
Sir John Fleming, ist Earl of Wigton, Scotland.
(See Notice C) 
4. Elizabeth Bolling, b. 1709; m. Dr. William Gay 
4. Martha Boiling, b. 1713; d. Oct. 23, 1749; m., 1727,
Thomas Eldridge ; d. Dec. 4, 1754 
4. Anne Bolling, b.  ; d.  ; m. James Murray.
(See Notice D) 
Fifth in Descent.
Of John Boiling's (4) Children.
5. Thomas Boiling, b. July 7, 1735; d. Aug. 7, 1804;
J. P., Chesterfield county; m. Elizabeth Gay (5).
(See Notice E) 
5. John Bolling, of "Chestnut Grove," b. June 24, 1737 ;
d. 179- ; m. Martha Jefferson, sister of President
Jefferson. (See Notice F) 
5. Robert Boiling (Col), of "Chellowe," b. Aug. 17,
1738; d. 1769; M. H. B. ; m. ist, Mary Burton, 2d,
Susan Watson. (See Notice G) 
5. Mary Bolling, b. July 16, 1744; d.  ; m. 1761 ;
Richard Bland, of Jordan's, A. 1730-1766 (Meraber
H. of B., Condnental Congress, and ot the Revolu
tionary Convention of 1774 and 1775), son of the
great Richard of Revolutionary fame 
5. Sarah Boiling, b. June 16, 1748 ; m. John Tazewell,
of Williamsburg (Judge of the General Court, and

Chil
dren.

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33

Chil
dren.

Clerk of the Revolutionary Conventions of 1775
and 1776). [Brother of Henry, father of Littleton
Waller Tazewell, Governor of Virginia, U. S.Sena-
tor, etc. R. A. B.] 
5. Archibald Bolling, b. March 20, 1750 ; d.  ; m. ist,
Sarah Cary, 1770, 2d, Feb., 1774, Jane Randolph (6),
3d, Widow Byrd, 1797, 4th, Widow Clark, 1802.
(See Notice H) 
5. Anne Boiling, i. Feb. 7, 1752 ; w. William Dandridge.
Of the Children qf Jane Bolling (4) wife of Richard
Randolph.
5. Richard Randolph, M. H. B., m. Nancy Meade 
5. Brett Randolph, b. 1732; d. 1759; m. Mary Scott in
England, where he lived and died 
3. John Randolph m. Frances Bland, b. 1752 ; d. 1788 ;
daughter of Richard Bland, of " Cawson's" 
5. Mary Randolph, b. 1727 ; d. 1781 ; m. Archibald Cary,
of " Amphthill," b. 1721 ; d. 1787, (Speaker H. of B..
Member Convention of 1766, Speaker State Sen
ate) 
5. Jane Randolph m. Col. Anthony Walke, of "Fair
field," Princess Anne county, M. H. B., son of
Anthony and Anne Lee (Armistead) Walke, second
in descent from Anthony Voelke, or Walke, from
Holland 
3. Elizabeth Randolph m. Richard Kidder Meade, Aide
to General Washington. (See Notice I) 
Cf the Children of Mary Bolling (4) wife of Col.
John Fleming.
5. Thomas Fleming, Captain in Colonel William Ryrd's
Second Virginia regiment in 1758, Colonel Ninth
Virginia regiment in the Revolutionary war; m.
 Randolph. Killed in battle of Princeton, Janu
ary 12, 1777 
5. John Fleming, Major in the Revolutionary army.
Killed at battle of White Plains ; unmarried 
.5. William Fleming, b. July 6, 1736; d. February 15
1824; M. H. B. from Cumberland county; Mem-'
3

Sons

Daugh ters.

34

POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS.

1 Ohil-
,dren.

Sons

Daugh ters.

ber of Virginia Conventions of 1776 and 1788, and
on the Independence Committee of the first;
County Lieutenant of Powhatan county, 1776;
Member of the House of Delegates of the Old
Congress; ofthe General Court of Virginia, No
vember 25, 1780; of the Court of Appeals, Decem
ber 24, 1788; President of the Court, 1 820-1 824 ;
nt. Elizabeth Champe, daughter of Colonel John
Champe, of King George county, Virginia 

5. Charles, Captain, Seventh Virginia Regiment, and
Lieutenant-Colonel in the State Line 

5. Mary Fleming »«. William Bernard.
5. Caroline Fleming m. James Deane. .

Of the Children of Elizabeth Bolling (4) wife of Dr.
William Gay.
5. William Gay m. ist, Frances Trent, 2d, Judith Scott.
5, Elizabeth Gay m. Thomas Boiling (5) 

5. Mary Gay m. Neil Buchanan, of Ettrick Banks M,
Association, 1770 

Of the Children of Martha Bolling (4) wife oJ Thomas
Eldridge.

5. Jenny Eldridge b. circa, 1740 
5. Rolfe Eldridge of " Subpoena," i. December 29, 1744,
Clerk of Buckingham ; m. Susan Everard Walker.
5. Mary Eldridge b. March nth, 174I, m. Thos. Branch .
5. Judith Eldridge b. March 11, 174I ; »«. James Ferguson.
5. Martha Eldridge m. John Harris of England 

Of the Children of Anne Bolling (.1^ wife of James
Murray.
5. William Murray, b. May 6, 1752 ; d. 1815 ; m. Re
becca Boiling (6) 

5. John Murray, b. 1744 ; d.  ; m. Susan Yates 
5. Anne Murray, b. August 30, 1746 ; m. Neil Buchanan .
5. Margaret, or Peggy Murray, b. February 8, 1748 ; m..
Thomas Gordon 

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3

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POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS.

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Chil
dren.

5. Mary Murray, b. 1754 ; d. 1823 ; m. ist, Alexander
Gordon, 2d, Col. William Davies. (See Notice J) . .

5. James Murray, b. 1743 ; d.  ; w. Martha Ward.
Sixth in Descent.
Of Thomas Boiling's (5) Children.
6. Elizabeth Boiling, b. 1760 ; d.  ; m. William Rob
ertson, b. 1750 ; d. 1829 ; Member Council of State.
(See Notice K) 

6. Rebecca Boiling m. William Murray (5) 
6. William Boiling (Col. and M. H. D.) m. Mary Ran
dolph (6). (See Notice L) 

6. Thomas and Mary, deaf mutes, never married. (See
Notice M) 

Of John Boiling's (5) Children.
6. Martha Bolling m. Field Archer 
6. John Boiling m.  Kennon 
6. Edward Boiling, b.  ; d. 1835 ; m. Dolly Payne.. .
6. Archibald Boiling m. Catharine Payne 
6. Mary Bolling m. Edward Archer 

6. Robert Boiling m. Jane Payne 
Of Robert Boiling's (6) Children.
6. Mary Burton Boiling, b. 1764; d. August 3, 1787 ; m.,
November 4, 1781, Robert Bolling, b. March 3,
1759, of Petersburg, of the Stith Boilings 

6. Pocahontas Rebecca Bolling m. Col. Joseph Cabell
1782 

6. Elizabeth Blair Boiling m. Major Thomas West
M. H. D 

6. Linnaeus Bolling, b. 1773 ; d. 1836, M. H. D. ; m. Mary
Markham. (See Notice N.) 

6 Powhatan, b. 1767; d. 1802. (See Notice O.).

Sons

Daugh ters.

36

POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS.

Of Archibald Bolting's (5) Children.
6. Sarah Boiling m. 1792, Joseph Cabell Megginson, b.
1771 ; d. 181 1 

6. Anne Everard Bolling tn. ist, Sheppard Duval, 2d
Col. Jo. Cabell in 1804  ,
6. Elizabeth Meade Boiling, b.
Archibald Robertson (7) 

• ; d. 1823 ; m.. 1801

6. Blair Boiling, b. 1792; d.  ; Captain State Guard
m.. ist, M. A. Webster 1824, 2d, Penelope Storrs
1827. (See Notice P) 

Of Mary Balling's (5) Children, wife of Richard Bland.
6. Richard Bland, 5. 1762; d. 1806; tn. Susanna, daughter
of Ro. Poythress, 4th in descent from Francis Poy
thress, who came to Va. circa 1636 

\/ 6. Ann P. Bland, b. 1765 ; d. -
2d, Peter Woodlief. . .

; m ist, John Morrison,

Of Sarah Boiling's (5) Children, wife of John Tazewell.
6. Elizabeth Tazewell m. Samuel Griffin, M. D., M. of
Congress 1789 to 1795 

6. Littleton Tazewell m. Catharine Nevison nee Boush

6. William Tazewell, M. D., b.  ; d. 1840 ; m. Mary
Page Tanner. (See Notice Q) 

Of Anne Boiling's (5) Children, wife of William
L)andridge.

6. John Dandridgew.  Underwood.
6. William Dandridge m.  . . . .

6. Nathaniel West Dandridge, m. Martha H. Fontaine
(niece of Patrick Henry) 

6. Ann Dandridge m. Frederick James 
6. Jane Butler Dandridge m. Rev. Jos. D. Logan 
Of Richard Randolph' s {^ Children.
6. Richard Randolph, Officer of Cavalry, Revolutionary
War, m. Maria Beverley 

Chil
dren.

Sons

Daugh ters.

POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS.

6. David Meade Randolph, b. 1760; d. 1830; Officer of
Cavalry, Revolutionary War; U. S. Marshal for Vir
ginia ; -m. Molly Randolph (7) 

6. Brett Randolph m. Lucy Beverley 
6. Ryland Randolph m. Elizabeth Frayzer.

6. Susanna Randolph m. Benjamin Harrison, of " Berke
ley," M. Non-Importation Association, 1770 
6. Jane Randolph m., 1774, Archibald Bolling (5) 
6. Ann Randolph tn. Brett Randolph, Jr. (6) 
6. Elizabeth Randolph tn. David Meade 

6. Mary Randolph m. William Bolling (6) Colonel Cav
alry, war of i8i2, M. H. D 

6. Sarah Randolph m. William Mewburn.

Of Brett Randolph's (5) Children.
6. Henry Randolph, w Oct. 7, 1758, Lucy Ward, daughter
of Seth and Mary (Goode) Ward 

6. Susanna Randolph m., 1783, Dr. Charles Douglass
(England) b. 1752 ; d. Heir presumptive of the Earl
of Morton 

6. Brett Randolph, b. 1760; d.
dolph (6) 

• ; tn. Anne Ran-

Of John Randolph's (5) Children.
6. Richard Randolph, i5. 1770; d. 1796; m. Judith, daugh
ter of Thos. Mann Randolph, of "Tuckahoe" 

6. John Randolph (of Roanoke), 5. 1773; d. 1833; Mem
ber of Congress and Minister to Russia. (See
Notice R) 

Of Mary Randolph's (5) Children, wife of Archibald
Cary.
6. Anne Cary »«. Thoraas Mann Randolph, of Tuckahoe.
6. Jane Cary m. Thoraas Isham Randolph, of Dun
geness 

6. Elizabeth Cary m. Robert Kincaid .

Chil
dren.

Sons

Daugh ters.

1010

13 4 5

38

POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS.

6. Mary Cary tn. Carter Page, son of Governor John
Page, Major of Cavalry, Revolutionary War 

Of Jane Randolph's (5) Children, wife of Anthony
Walke.
6. Rev. Anthony Walke, Protestant Episcopal Church,
M. Virginia Convention 1788; m. ist, Ann McClena-
han, 2d, Mrs. Anne Fisher n^e  , 3d,   .
Of Thotnas Fletning's (5) Children.
6. Mary Fleraing m. Warner Lewis, of " Warner Hall."
6. Sukey Fleming m. Addison Lewis 
Of William Fleming's (5) Children.
^ ^r Lucy Fleraing W.John Markhara. They went West,
and left issue 

6. Mary Boiling Fleming tn. Capt. Beverley Chew Stan-
ard, of Spotsylvania county 

Of Marv Flemitig's (5) Children, wife of William
Bernard.

6. Daniel Bernard m.

Branch.

Of Caroline Fleming's (5) Children, wife of Jatnes
Deane.

Of William Gay's (5) Children, who married Frances
Trent and Judith Scott.
6. William Gay (T.) tn. Lucy Harrison Coupland ( grand
daughter of Benjamin Harrison, Signer of the
Declaration of Independence) 

Chil
dren.

6. Elizabeth Gay (T.), b. 1772 ; d. -
ley 

m. Efford Bent-

6. Thomas Boiling Gay (S.) tn. Eliza R. Archer 
6. Niel B. Gay (S.) (M. H. D.) m. Martha Talley 
6. Mary B. Gay (S.), b. 1794; d. 1879; »w. Gideon A.
Strange, M. H. D 

6. Edward Scott Gay, Capt. State Guard, tn. Catharine
N. Tazewell (7) 

Sons

Daugh ters.

POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS.

39

6. Ann H. Gay (S.) m. Charles H. Scott.

6. Charles S. Gay (S.) m. Margaret Erskine, daughter
of  Erskine, M. H. D 

6. Sally Gay (S.) m. James B. Ferguson (6), M. H. D.
Of Elizabeth Gay's (5) Children, wife of Thomas Boil
ing (5)-

^

[See Thomas Boiling's (5) children. J

Of Martha Eldridge' s (5) Chidren, wife of John Hams.
6. Pamela, b. 1749; m. 1765 Rev. Christopher McRae,
Protestant Episcopal Church ; issue. For account
of him see Meade's Old Churches and Families of
Virginia, ii., 35-38 

Of Rolfe Eldridge' s (5) Children, who m. Susanna
Everard Walker.
6. Rolfe Eldridge (Clerk of Buckingham) m. Mary
Moseley 

6. Susan Eldridge tn.

¦ Webber.

6. Thomas Eldridge m. Mary Ayres 
6. Courtney Tucker Eldridge m. John Williams.

Of the Children of Mary Eldridge (5), wife of Thomas
Branch.

6 Boiling Branch m. Rebecca Graves.
6. Matthew Branch m. Martha Cox . . . ,

Of Judith Eldridge' s (5) Children, wife of James
Ferguson.
6. James B. Ferguson m. ist, Jane Bolling (widow of
Robt Bolling (6)), b. Payne, 2d, Sally Gay (6) 
Of James Murray's (5) Children, who tn. Martha Ward.
6. Mary Murray >«. Edmund Harrison, M. Senate Va.. .

Of John Murray's (6) Children, who married Susan
Yates.

6. Elizabeth Murray m. Edward Yates .
6. Anne Murray w. Jesse Brown.. 

Chil
dren.

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Daugh ters.

40

POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS.

Chil
dren.

Sons

Daugh ters.

6. Sukey Murray m. Theodore Bland "Ruffin  j - -
6. James Murray tn.   I 3
6. Peggy Murray m.  Elam 

Of Mary Murray's (5) Children, wife of, 1st, Alex.
Gordon, 2d, Col. W^n. Davies.
6. Peggy Gordon m. ist, William Knox, d. 1809, 2d, Griel
Green, a prominent lawyer of Mecklenburg county .
6. Mary Ann Davies m., 1804, Fortescue Whittle, a fel
low-exile with Emmet. (See Notice S) 

Of Peggy Murray's (5) Children, wife of Thos. Gordon
6. Ann (or Nancy) Gordon m. Henry Embry Coleman,
M. Va. Sen 

Of Anne Murray's (5) Children, wife of Neil Buchanan
6.  Buchanan nt.  Cross 

Of William Murray's (5) Children, who married Re
becca Bolling (6.)
6. Anne Murray tn. Thomas Robinson, an eminent
physician and scholar, a refugee about 1800 from
the Irish troubles which drove Thos. Addis Eraraet
and others into exile. Settled in Petersburg, where
he died 

6. Mary Murray tn. George Skipwith 
6. William Murray d. i866; tn. Rebecca Skelton.
Seventh in Descent.
Of Rev. Anthony Walke's (6) sons.
7. Edwin Walke. . .
7. David Meade Walke J
7. John N. Walke, by second marriage.

by first marriage.

Of Elizabeth Bolting's (6) Children, wife of William
Robertson.
7. Archibald Robertson, b. 1772 ; d. 1861 ; tn. Elizabeth
M. Bolling 

POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS.

41

Chil
dren.

7. Thomas Boiling Robertson, b. 1773; d. 1828, Sec'y
of Territory, ist M.C., Attorney-General, Governor,
U. S. Judge, of Louisiana ; m. Lelia Skipwith. (See
Notice T). 

7. William Robertson, M. H. D., m. Christina Williams.
7. John Robertson, (5. 1787; d. Julys, 1873; Attorney-
General, M. C, ChanceUor, (Virginia) ; m. Anne
Trent. (See Nodce U) 

7. Anne Robertson m. Dr. Henry Skipwith, 1813 
-; d.  ; tn. John H.

7. Jane Gay Robertson, b. —
Bernard (M. Senate of Va) 
7. Wyndham Robertson, b. 1803, M. H. D., M. Council
of State, Governor of Virginia, 1836 ; m. Mary F. T.
Smith. (See Notice V) 

Of Rebecca Boiling's {6) Children, wife of Wm. Murray.
[See William Murray's (5) children.J
Of the Children of William Boiling (6), who married
Mary Randolph (6).

7. Ann Meade Boiling, m. Jos. K. Weisiger 
7. William Albert Boiling, deaf mute, m. Eliza Christian.
7. Thomas Bolling, b. 1807; m. Louisa daughter of
Richard Morris of Hanover, M. Va. Con. 1829-30. .

7. Jane Rolfe Bolling, m. Robert Skipwith (7) 
Of the Children of Martha Bolling (6) wife of Field
Archer.
7. Powhatan Archer m.  Walthall 
7. Martha Archer m. ist, John Boiling, 2d,
7. Ellen Archer m.  Berry 
7. Mary Archer m. Edward Covington 
7. Lucy Archer m.  Archer 

Berry.

Of John Boiling's (6) Children, who married 
Kennon.
7. Evelina Boiling m. Alexander Garrett, Clerk of Albe
marie county 

Sons

Daugh ters.

42

POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS.

7. Susan Bolling OT. John Scott.

Chil
dren.

Of Edward Bolting's (6) Children, who -married Dolly
Payne.

7. Powhatan Boiling tn.  Payne 
Of Archibald Bolting's (6) Children.
7. Archibald Bolling, b.  ; d. i860 ; m. Anne E. Wig
ginton 
7. Edward Bolling, b.  ; d. 1855 ; m. Ann Cralle —
7. Alexander Boiling, b.  ; d. 1878 ; m. Susan Gray
Of Mary Bolting's (6) Children, wife of Edward
Archer.
7. Peter Jefferson Archer tn. ist, M. Michaux, 2d, Lucy
Gilliam, issue 

Of the Children of Mary Burton Bolling (6), ist wife
of Robert Boiling, of Petersburg.
7. Mary Burton Augusta Bolling tn. John Monro Ban
nister, (Battersea) 

Of Pocahontas Rebecca Boiling's (6) Children, wife of
Col. Joseph Cabell.
7. Sophonisba E. Cabell, b. 1784; d 1857; m. 1809,
Robert H. Grayson, son of U. S. Senator William
Gray.son 

7. Sarah BoiUng Cabell, b. 1786 ; d.
Elisha Meredith 

7. Charles J. Cabell, b. 1789; d. 1810; unmarried.
notable man in his day." (See Notice W). . .

; tn., 1805, A

7. Edward Blair Cabell, b. 1791 ; d. 1850; m., 1812, Har
riet Forbes Monroe, a niece of President Monroe. .
7. Benjamin William S. Cabell, Senate of Virginia, b.
1793 ; d 1862 ; m., 1816, Sarah Eppes Doswell 

7. Mary P. Cabell, b. 1798; d. 1821 ; m., 1818, Peyton
Doswell, d. 1820  ,  , 

Sons

Daugh ters.

POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS.

43

Chil
dren.

Of Anne Everard Boiling's (6) Children, who married
ist, Sheppard Duval, zd. Col. Joseph Cabell.

7. Samuel Sheppard Duval.
7. Archibald Bolling Duval.

7. Jane Randolph Cabell, b. 1805 ; d. 1833 ; .m., 1824,
Philip T. Allen 

• ; m: ist, 1830, Mary

7. John B. Cabell, b. 1808; d.
C. Wardlaw; d. 1835 
2d, 1839, Martha, daughter of Captain John Posey.
7. Elizabeth Robertson Cabell, b. 1809 ; d. 1852 ; m. ist,
1826, James B. Paulett 
2d, 1834, Archibald Dixon, U. S Senator 

7. Robert Boiling Cabell, b. 1812 ; d.  ; m.- ist, 1833,
Anne E. Herndon ; d. 1834 
2d, 1835, Eleanor Hart 

7. George W. Cabell, b. 1814 ; d.  ; m., 1837, Mary R
Williams. 

7. Mary Ann Hopkins Cabell, b. 1824; m., 1845", Dr. E.
L. Willard (California) ; issue 

Of Elizabeth Blair Boiling's (6) Children, wife of Th.
West.

7.  tn. James S. Jones. . . .
7.  m. Dr. Joel W. Flood.

' Of Linnesus Boiling's (6) Children, who married Mary
Markham.
7. Mary Boiling m. Dr. James Cobbs, brother of Bishop
N. H. Cobbs, Protestant Episcopal Church 

7. Susan Bolling b.  ; d. 1849; m. Robert T. Hubard
M. H. D. ; lawyer  •' 

7. Philip A. Bolling, M. H. D.- and Judge of Circuh
Court, m. Mary Eppes 

7. Robert Bolling m. ist, Sarah Hobson, 2d, Mary
Watkins, 3d, Martha Brackett 

Sons

Daugh ters.

44

POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS.

Chil
dren

Of Sarah Bolting's (6) Children, who married Joseph
Cabell Megginson.
7. William C. Megginson, b. 1794; d. 1847; in., 1821
Amanda M. Bocock, sister of Thomas S. Bocock
M. C. and Speaker H. of Rep's 

7. Elizabeth C. Megginson, b. 1796 ; d  ; tn. William
Berkeley 

7. Archibald Boiling Megginson, d. 1798; rf. 1851; tn.
1st, 1824, Ann R. White ; 2d, 1833, Elizabeth Roberts.
7, Joseph C. Megginson, M. H. D. Va., Judge in Texas,
b. 1800; d. 1858; m., 1826, Almira Montgomery...
7. Samuel B. Megginson, b. 1802 ; m., 1828, Mary A.
Johnston 

7. Jane Randolph Megginson, b. 1804 ; d.  ; m. Dr
Nathaniel Powell 

Sons Daugh-
1 ters.

7. John R. Megginson, b. 1806; d. 1875; m., 1835, Mary
R. Dunn 

7. Benjamin C. Megginson, b. 1809 ; m., 1837, Fannv
Blain  '

Of Elizabeth Meade Bolting's (6) Children, wife of
Archibald Robertson (7).

7. Elizabeth Jane, b. 1802 ; d. 1822 ; unmarried 
7. Rebecca, b. I803 ; d. 1S23 
7. Pocahontas Anne, b. 1805 ; d. 1838 ; m.  Boiling.
7. Virginia B. Robertson, b. 1807 ; d. 1836 ; m. Colonel
Ralph Graves 

Of Blair Boiling's (6) Children.
7. Archibald Boiling m. February, 1852, Eliza Trueheart
Armistead 

7. John Boiling m. ist, October, 1855, Maria Page
Armistead, 2d, Julia B. Tinsley 

7. Mary Susan Boiling m. August, 1851, ist, Gervas
Storrs Burton, 2d, Dr. J. C. Macon 
7. Paulina Boiling (?) 

POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS.

45

Chil
dren.

Of Richard Bland's (6) Children, who married Susan
Poythress.

7. Richard Bland tn. ist, ¦

 , 2d,  Ledbetter.

7. John Bolling Bland tn. ist,  Eppes, 2d, Rachel
Reed, 3d, E. Cargill 

7. Sarah Bland tti. Thomas Bott 
7. Theodorick Bland m. Mary Harnson.
7. Mary Bland m. Elgin Russell 

Of the Children of Anna P. Bland (6) wife of, ist, I.
Morrison, 2d, P. Woodlief.

7. Hannah Woodlief in. Dr. Harda.way  , . . ¦
7. Anna Woodlief w.  Jeffrey 
%/" 7. Elizabeth Woodlief »«. Dr. Shadrach Alfriend.

Of Littleton Tazewell's (6) Children, who married
Catharine Nevison.
7. Sarah Bolling Tazewell m. William O. Goode, M. C
Of Wm. Tazewell's (6) Children, who m Page Tanner.
7. Willianna Blair Tazewell 

7. Catharine Nevison Tazewell m. ist, E. Ambler, 2d,
Capt. Ed. S. Gay (6), Va.' State Guard 

7. Henrietta Watkins Tazewell tn. C. I. Fox, Agent
Associated Press 

7. Mary Louisa Tazewell m. Dr. J. B. Southall 
7. Sally Boiling Tazewell m. Dr; George Fitzgerald . . .
7. Martha Jefferson Tazewell m., after her sister's death.
Dr. J B. Southall 

7. Jane Rebecca Tazewell 
7. Nancy Rosalie Tazewell m. Andrew L. Ellett.
7. Isabella Tazewell 

Of John Dandridge' s (6) Children, who m.
Underwood.

7. Bolling Dandridge m. 

; Daugh ters.

46

POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS.

Of Nathaniel West Dandridge' s (6) Children.
7. Charles F. Dandridge tn.  McGhee 
7. William F. Dandridge m.  Stith 
7. Anna Dandridge m. W. Hereford 
7. Martha Dandridge m. R. Bolton 
7. Nathaniel West Dandridge m. H. Wylie 
7. Rosalie Dandridge tn W. D. Bradford 
Of William Dandridge' s (6) Children, who m.  Stith.

Chil
dren.

Sons

Daugh ters.

Of Anne Dandridge's (6) Children, who married F.
James.

Utz, Fincastle.

Of the Children of Jane Butler Dandridge (6) and
fiev. Jos. D. Logan.

7. James W. Logan m. S. W. Strother 
Of Richard Randolph' s (6) Children, who married  .
f
7. Robert B. Randolph (Lieut U. S. Navy) m. Maria
Beverly 

7. Wm. Randolph, Mid. U. S. Navy (on board Chesa
peake when taken — lost in the Wasp) 

7. Maria B. Randolph tn. Philip Duval 
Of David Meade Randolph's (6) . Children.
7. Wm. B. Randolph tn. Sarah Lingan 
Of Brett Randolph's (6) Children, who tn. Lucy Beverley.
7. Edward Randolph (Capt. U.S. A.) m. Bland Beverly.
7. Carter Beverley Randolph (Ass't Surgeon U. S. N)>w.
Anne Tayloe Farrar (5. Beverly) 

7. Victor Moreau Randolph (Capt. U. S. N. and C. S. N.)
tn. Augusta Cranberry 

7. Franklin Randolph m. Ann Corbin of "The Reeds "

POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS.

47

Chil
dren.

7. Theodric Randolph tn.  Brand.

Sons

Daugh ters.

Of Ryland Randolph's (6) Children, who married
Elizabeth Frazier.

7-
7-

- tn.
tn. -

Of Susan Randolph's (6) Children, wife of Benfn
Harrison, of " Berkeley"

7. Benjamin Harrison tn. ist,  Mercer, 2d,  Page
Of Jane Randolph's (6) Children, wife of Archibald
Bolling (5).
•[See Archibald Boiling's (5) children.]
Of Ann Randolph's (6) Children, wife of Brett Ran
dolph, Jr. (6).

7. Kidder Randolph m. Betsey Montague 
7. Howard Randolph m.  Meade (Kentucky).
7. Anne Randolph m. Joseph Michaux 
7. Susan Randolph m. Frank Watkins 
7. Brett, and Patrick, twins 

Of Elizabeth Randolph's (6) Children, wife of David
Meade.
7. John E. Meade, b. 179-; d. 1854; m. Rebecca Beverley
7. Charlotte Meade, b. 179- ; tn. Dr. J. Y. Stockdell 
7. Rebecca Meade, b. 180- ; m. Jaraes Lea 

Of Mary Randolph's (6) Children, wife of William
Bolling (6).
[See Wm. Boiling's (6) children.J
Of Henry Randolph's (6) Children, who married Lucy
Ward.
7. Henry Randolph, of "Warwick," b. 1784; d. October
26, 1840; tn. ist, Caroline Matilda, daughter of
Major Smith, of Manchester, Virginia ; d. .Sept
25, 1808, without issue, 2d, Eliza Griffin Norman, of

6
II 6

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POCAHONTAS. AND HER DESCENDANTS.

a Henrico family from Pennsylvania and of the So
ciety of Friends, 3d, Mrs. Perry, a descendant of
Thomas Tinsley, planter, who emigrated to Vir
ginia from Yorkshire, England, near the close of
the seventeenth century 

7. Mary Randolph m. ist, Geo. Thornton, 2d, James
Maury 

7. Brett Randolph.

7. Catharine Cochrane Randolph, b. 1797 ; d. Dec. 12,
1852 ; tn Josiah Bartlett Abbott, of ' High Meadow,"
Henrico county, ^. in Connecticut June 1, 1793; d.
Sept. 23, 1849 

7. Susan Frances Randolph tn. Alex'r Lawson Botts, b.
1800 (M. Council of State) and brother of Hon.
John Minor Botts 

Of Susanna Randolph's (6) Children, wife of Dr.
Douglass.
7. Susan Mary Ann Douglas, b. 1785; m. ist, Wallace,
2d, 1808, Capt. John Tucker, of Island of Bermuda.

twins; b. 1789..

7. Charles Brett Douglass ....
7. Archibald Aberdeen Douglass ,
7. Heartly Douglass, b 1786 
7. Eliza Randolph Douglass, b. 1791 
Of Brett Randolph's (6) Children.
[See Anne Randolph's (6) children.]
Of Richard Randolph's (6) Children.
7. Tudor 
7. St. George, a deaf mute 

Of Anne Gary's (6) Children, wife of Thos. Mann
Randolph, of Tuckahoe.
7. Mary Randolph m. David Meade Randolph (6) 

Chil
dren.

Sons Daugh ters.

POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS.

49

Chil
dren.

7. Elizabeth Randolph m. Robt. Pleasants, of" Four-mile
Run," 4th in descent from John Pleasants from
Norwich, England, in 1665, in his 25th year 

7. Thos. Mann Randolph, of ' Edge Hill," b. 1764 ; d.
1836 (Governor of Virginia, M. H.of R.); w. Martha
(daughter of President) Jefferson 

7 Wm. Randolph m. Lucy (daughter of Gov. Beverley)
Randolph 

7. Judith Randolph m. Richard Randolph, of " Bizarre "
(6.) 

7. Ann Cary Randolph tn. Gouverneur Morris (N. York),
Minister to France 1792-1794 
7. Jane Randolph m. Thos. Esten Randolph 
7. John Randolph, M. D., ot. Judith Lewis 

7. Harriet Randolph ot. Rich'd S. Hackley, Consul at
Cadiz 

7. Virginia Randolph ot. Wilson J. Cary.

Of Jane Gary's (6) Children, wif e of Thos. Isham Ran
dolph.
7. Archibald Cary Randolph ot. Lucy Burwell, of "Carter
Hall" 

7. Thos. Randolph (twin of Isham) ot. ist, Mary Skip
with, 2d, Catharine Lawrence. Killed in the bat
tle of Tippecanoe 

7. Isham Randolph (twih of Thomas) ot. Ann R. Coup
land 

7. Mary Randolph ot. Randolph Harrison, of " Clifton."
Of Elizabeth Gary's (6) Children, wife of Robt. Kincaid.
7. Mary J. Kincaid m. Charles Irving 
Of Mary Gary's (6) Children, wife of Carter Page.
7. John Cary Pagew. Mary A. Trent 
7. Henry Page ot.  Deane 
7. Mann Page, M. D., OT.Jane Walker 

7 Mary Page lost her life in the burning of the Rich
mond Theatre,' Dec. 26, 1811) 
I

Sons

Daugh ters.

3 ! 3 I
43

50

POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS.

.Chil dren

Of Anthony Walke's (6) Children.
7. Anthony Walke tn. ist, Jane Ritson, 2d, Ann Living
ston 

7. Edwin Walke m. Sarah Massenbuig.
7. Susan M. Walke ot. Chas. H. Shield.

7. John N. Walke m. ist,  Land, 2d, Anna M.
Baylor 

7. Jane E. Walke m. Richard Watson.

Of the Children of Mary Fleming (6), 2d wife of
Warner Lewis.
7. Julia Lewis tn. Thoraas Throckmorton, of Williams
burg, Va 

7. John Lewis ot. Eleanor Lewis (his cousin).

Of the Children of Sukey Fleming (6) who married
Addison Lewis.
7. Susan Lewis tn. William Byrd, of "Westover" (?).
Of the Children of John Markham, -who tnarried
Lucy Fleming. Pi
7. Descendants in the West 

Ofthe Children of Beverley C. Stanard, who married
Mary Boiling Fleming.
7. Eliza J. F. Stanard tn. Samuel O. Eggleston 
7. John C. Stanard m. Sarah T. Thurston 
7. Julia A. V. Stanard m. Dr. A. L. Wooldridge 

Sons

Daugh ters.

Of the Children of Daniel Bernard (6), who married
 Branch.
7. Cyrus Bernard (Mid. U. S. Navy) prisoner of war at
Algiers, killed in a duel at Havana, May 15, 1821 . . .
7. Christopher Bernard, Sergeant of Richmond volun
teers (war of 1812), grandfather ofthe late Cyrus A.
Branch, M. Va. S. and prominent lawyer of James
City county ; ot.  ; left issue 

POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS.

51

Of Thomas Boiling Gay's [6) Children.
7. Ellen Gay ot. Jacob Skein 
7. Delia Gay 
7. Williara (jay ot.  Jackson 
7. Eliza S. Gay 
7. Powhatan A. Gay 
7. Virginia F. Gay 
7. Boiling Gay,C. S. A., died at Camp Douglass Ap'l, 1865
Of the Children of Elizabeth Gay (6), wife of Edward
Bentley. .

7. Eliza Gay Bentley ot. Daniel Harris 
7. Wm. Field Bentley ot. Sarah Dupree . . .
7. Fanny Trent Bentley ot. Wm. Houston.

7. EfTord Bolling Bentley m. Lucy W. Chamberlayne,
daughter of Professor Lewis W.Charaberlayne, M. D

7. John Gay Bentley ot. Judith Thompson 
7. Maria Buchanan Bentley ot. Daniel B. Friend.
7. Alex'r Willis Bentley, M. D., ot.  Peters. .
7. Lavinia Bentley ot. William Roper 
Of William Gay's (6) Children.
7. Peterfield Gay, M. D., ot.  Christian 
7. B. Franklin Gay ot.  Baptist 
Of Neil B. Gay's (6) Children.
7. William Gay ot. Sarah Bruce 
7. Neil B. Gay ot. Mary Bunn 
7. Martha Gay m.  Perkins 
7. Pocahontas V 
7. Ann Caroline 

Chil
dren

Sons

Daugh ters.

52

POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS.

Of Sally Gay's (6) Children, wife of James B. Fer
guson (6).

7. Judith Gay Ferguson ot. J. A. Carr 
7. Pocahontas Ferguson tn. J. M. Vaughan.

7. James B. Ferguson tn. Emina C, daughter of Colonel
John Henry, and grand-daughter of Patrick Henry,
the Orator 

Chil
dren

7. Mary Francis Ferguson ,

7. William Gay Ferguson ot. Margaret Brvce, nee
Pickett  .' 

Of Edward S. Gay's (6) Children.
7. Matoaca Gay, a distinguished society writer, under
the nom de plume of " Bric-a-Brac " 

7. Louisa Gay m. Robert C. White.
7. Edwd. S Gay w. Sarah Ewell 

7. Caroline Gay ot. Charles P. Winston ; d. January 1,
1887 

7. Minnie W. Gay.

Of Mary B. Gay's (6) Children, wife of Gideon A.
Strange.

7. William Gay Strange.

Of Charles S Gay's (6) Children.
7. Charles Wyndham Gay, C. S. A., killed in battle.
7. Henry Erskine Gay 
7. Frances B. Gay ot. 1875, R. H. Catlett ; issue 
7. Lizzie E. Gay 
7. William Gay 
7. Agatha Estell Gay 
7. Caroline Scott Gay tn. W. M. Allen 

Sons

Daugh ters.

POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS.

53

Chil- Sons
dren.

Of Rolfe Eldridge's (6) Children, who married Mary
Moseley.

7. Susanna Eldridge tn. Dr. James Austin..
7. Lucy Eldridge tn. Rev. Jaraes Fitzgerald.
7. Elizabeth Eldridge m. B. Austin 

7. Delia Eldridge ot. Robert Kincaid Irving, M. Sen
Va., Clerk of Buckingham county ; issue 

7. William Eldridge ot.  Nixon 
7. Mildred Kidder Eldridge ot. Wm. M. Cabell 
7. Benjamin Eldridge tn. Eliz. Perkins 
7. John Eldridge m. Sarah Moseley 
7. Frances Eldridge ot. Samuel A. Glover ; issue.

Of the Children of Susan Eldridge (6), who married
 Webber.

7. Thomas ot. Mary Ayres
7. CoiJi

tney T. Eldridge ot. Jno. Williams.

Of Bolling Branch's (6) Children, who married Rebecca
Graves.
7. Mary Susan Branch ot John F. Wiley, M. Council of
State and Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia. ......

7. William Branch ot.  
7. Sally Branch ot. Captain Edw'd Gregg.

Of Matthew Branch' s (fl) Children, who married Martha
Cox.

7. Polly Branch ot. Thomas May 
Of James B. Ferguson's (6) Childreti, who married ist,
Jane Boiling, born Payne, 2d, Salty Gay (6).
7. Jane Elvira Ferguson ot. Peachy R. Grattan, Reporter
of the Court of Appeals 

[For his other children see Sally Gay's (6) children.]

Daugh ters.

54

POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS.

Of Elizabeth Murray's (6) Children, wife of Edward
Yates.

7. Mary Yates m. William Hamlin
7. Elizabeth Yates 

dren,

Sons

Daugh ters.

Of Margaret, or Nancy Murray's (6) Children, wife of.
Thomas Gordon.
7. Nancy m. Henry Embry Coleman, Virginia Senate ;
issue 

Of Peggy Gordon's (6) Children, wife of ist, William
Knox, 2d, Grief Green.
7. Mary Ann Knox ot. Dr. Thomas Goode 
7. Sophia Knox ot. John Buford 
7. John F. O. Knox, M. H.of D. ofVa 
7. Henry Green 

Of Mary Ann Davies' Children (6), wife of Fortescue
Whittle.
7. Wm. Conway Whittle, Commander U. S. N., after
wards Commodore C. S. N., in. Elizabeth Sinclair
daughter of Com. W. Sinclair, U. S N 

7. Fortescue Whitde.

7. James M. Whitde, M. Va. Convendon 1850; Sen. Va. ;
OT. ist, Mary Coles, 2d, Cornelia L. Skipwith (7). . .
7. Conway D. Whitde ot. Gilberta Sinclair, daughter of
Com. \V. Sinclair, U S. N  ....

7. John S. Whitde, Surgeon U. S. N. ; ot. ist, Jane Pat
terson, 2d, Anne Southgate 

7. Lewis Neale Whitde ot. Sarah M. Powers, 
7. Stephen Decatur Whittle, Secretary in Virginia State
Convention i849-'5o,ot. Nannie daughter of George
Taylor, and grand-daughter of the far-famed John
Taylor of " Hazlewood," Caroline county, Vir
ginia; United States Senator; author of various
able works on Agriculture, Polidcal Economy, etc.,
under the nom de plume of " Arator"  '

POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS.

55

Chil
dren.

7. Francis McNeece Whittle, Bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, m. Emily Fairfax.
(See Nodce S) 

7. Powhatan Boiling Whittle, Colonel C. S. Army 
Of  Buchanan' s (6) Children, wife of  Cross
7  Cross OT. Robert Yuillee ; left issue 

Of Anne Murray's (6) Children, wife of Dr. Thomas
Robinson.
7. William Murray Robinson, a rarely accomplished
amateur in Art and Literature, b. 1807 ; d. 1878 ; ot.
Sarah A. Mills ; issue 

7. Robert Enlmett Robinson, M D., b.  ; d 1865;
m. 1st. Adeline Dewees, of Philadelphia, 2d, In
diana Henley, 3d, Virginia E. Stainback 

7. Powhatan Robinson ot. Anne Eason.

Of Mary Murray's (6) Children, wife of George Skip
with.
7. Robert Skipwith ot. ist, Jane Rolfe Boiling (7), 2d,
Eliz. Bolling 

7. Williara M. Skipwith 
7. George N. Skipwith, M. D., ot. Maria L. Brooks 
7 Cornelia Lotte Skipwith in. Jaraes M. Whitde (7) 
7. Thomas Boiling Skipwith, b.  ; d. 1873 ; ot.
Emma Darrieux 

Of William Murray's (6) Children.
7. Rebecca B. Murray 
7. Matoaca Murray m. C. L. Gifford, Newark, N. J.
7. Nannie S. Murray ot. Dr. J. B. Wiley (8) 
7. Louisa S. Murray 
7. Mary Murray 
7. Cornelia S. Murray 
7. Gay Bernard Murray ot. Lewis E. Rawlins 

Sons Daugh ters.

56

POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS.

, Chil
dren.

Sons

Daugh ters.

Of Ann Gordon's (6) Children, wife of Henry E. Cole
man.
7. Elizabeth Ann Coleman ot. Charles Baskerville 

7. Mary Margaret Coleman ot. Richard Logan (Member
Senate Virginia) 

7. John Coleman tn. ist, Elizabeth Clark, 2d, Mary
Love 

7. Thomas Gordon Coleman (Meraber House Dele
gates) OT. Anne Clarke 

7. Henrietta Maria Coleraan ot. Rev. John Clarke 
7. Henry E Coleman (Member House Delegates) ot.
Mary Turner 

7. Ethelbert Algernon Coleman, M. D., ot. ist, Elizabeth
Sims, 2d, Fanny Ragsdale 

7. Sarah Coleman ot. David Chalmers (Member House
Delegates) 

7. Charles Coleman tn. ist, Sarah Eaton, 2d, Alice
Sydnor 

7. Jane C. Coleman m Charles E. Hamilton.

APPENDIX.

NOTICE A.

Major John Bolling * inherited his father's love of pleasure
and his business qualifications, but without his appetence for
trade- His energy and sagacity showed themselves in long, and
in those days perilous, journeys through a wilderness country, and
the judicious choice of valuable, unappropriated lands, with which
he afterwards richly endowed his large family. He was " fond of
fine Horses, Hounds, Hunting, Fishing, Fowling, Feasting and
Dancing, yet doted on his wife and children," was of an even
temperance in all things as well as of an admirable vein of humor
— public-spirited, hospitable and popular. He was " County-
Lieutenant " of Chesterfield, an office of much dignity and im
portance in those days, and as such commanc^ed the militia, and
presided over its Courts He, also, for thirty j'ears, represented
his county in the House of Burgesses, Hving (as Wynne has it)
" in a style of elegance and profusion not inferior to the Barons
of England, and dispensing a hospitality which more than half
a century of sub-division, exhaustion and decay has not entirely
effaced from the memory" or divorced from the practice, of
many of his nuraerous descendants. NOTICE B.
Jane Bolling* was the mother of John Randolph, the
father of the celebrated John, of Roanoke, and her husband of
that stock, which Wynne says " may be pronounced the most
distinguished in the History of the Colony and the Common
wealth of Virginia;" a judgment which none will dissent from on

58 POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS.
learning that Thomas Jefferson and John iVIarshall were of it.
They are too conspicuous in all the histories of Virginia to de
mand here any but the most cursory notice. The patriarch of
the family was William Randolph, who came from Yorkshire, in
England, to Virginia in 1660. He was soon enabled to buy the
magnificent property of "Turkey Island," thirty miles above
Jamestown, where he permanendy setded. He married Mary
Isham, daughter of Henry and Katharine Isham, of the family of
Ishams of Northamptonshire, England, who bore him many chil
dren, but his woridly fortunes kept full pace with his progeny,
all of whom he setded around him on fine estates, and left
rich. They, too, were distinguished for energy, talents and
success, and achieved, with still expanding families, still enlarg
ing possessions. The Randolphs have filled, for a long course
of years, some or others of the very highest polidcal trusts —
Colonial, State and Federal. Numbers, and free living, at
length supervened on wealth, so that at the end of a century
"none ofthe name," says Bishop Meade, "owns a rood of those
immense tracts of land on which their fathers once lived."
But the prestige of the name long survived its fortunes, so that
when an ambitious mother was once twitted for marrying her
daughter to a poor Randolph, she sharply answered, that " an
ounce of Randolph was worth a pound, of gold." And many
still live who maintain the credit and distinction of the name.
NOTICE C.
Mary Bolling* we know of only as introducing into her
family that of the Flemings. I learn from one of them that
they were of Flemish descent, one of whom, a man of high rank,
is said to have setded in Scotland in the reign of David I. But
the. propositus to whom it can be clearly traced was Sir Malcolm
Fleming, Sheriff of Dumbarton under Alexander III. From him
Sir Thomas, the progenitor of the Virginia family, second son
of the first Earl of Wigton, traces his descent through a line of
singularly disdnguished ancestors, successively occupying the
most prominent positions. They were friends of the Bruce, and
favorites of successive kings, as well as it seems of the people of
Scodand also, forming the most iUustrious connections, and at
taining finally to the rank and title of Earls of Wigton. Of the

POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS. 59
founder of the Virginia branch (Sir Thomas, who emigrated in
1616), Colonel John Fleming, who married Mary Bolling, was a
grandson. Many of the name in Virginia have done honor to
their lineage. A Miss Fleming of this family (citing from their
genealogy kindly communicated by one of the descendants)
married Thomas Randolph, of Tuckahoe. A Tarleton Fleming
married Mary, daughter of Edmund and Judith (Randolph)
Berkeley, of "Barn Elms." Anne,'^ grand-daughter of Sir
Thomas," married John Payne, an English gentleman of wealth
and education, who settled in the county of Goochland.
They had issue: I. John,'" who married Mary, daughter of
WiUiam and Lucy (Winston) Coles, and had issue, i. Walter";
2. William Temple ; 3. Isaac, who all died unmarried ; 4. Dorothea,
wtio married ist, John Todd, a lawyer of Philadelphia, and 2d,
James Madison, President of the United States ; 5. Lucy " mar
ried ist, George Steptoe Washington, nephew of General Wash
ington, 2d, Thomas Todd, Justice Supreme Court of the United
States; 6. Anne, married Richard Cults, Member of Congress.
from Maine. Her grand -daughter, Adele,'' married ist. United
States Senator Stephen A. Douglas, 2d, General Robert Wil
liams, United States Army ; 7. Mary " married J. G. Jackson,
Member of Congress from Virginia, a cousin of General T. J.
(Stonewall) Jackson, Confederate States Army ; 8. John, married
Clarissa Willard and went to Kentucky.
NOTICE D.
Anne Bolling* lived to a great age and was of the large
stature, high courage, and awe-inspiring bearing of her great
Indian progenitor, Powhatan, as the following tradition of her well
attests. 'Sojourning with a kinswoman, whose house was being
rifled by Tarleton 's soldiers, she said, " Betsy, can you sit still and
allow yourself to be plundered this way"? then going up to the
commander of the party with arms akimbo, she thus accosted
him: "Take off your drunken gang, sir, this minute, or I will fetch
a squad from Tarleton will teach you how to behave in a gentle
man's house." "Come, boys," said the officer, "let's be off,
this woman's tongue is sharper than Tarleton' s sword ;" and off
they went at once faster than they came. Her husband, James
Murray, was of the ancient family and Clan of that name, of

60 POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS.
which the Dukes of Athol were the chiefs. Chief-Justice Mans
field was among its disdnguished members. They had fallen
into decay about his dme. as Lord Campbell's Life of him shows.
The habits of the family in Virginia were not such as to build up
their fortunes anew. Eminendy free from all vices, they sym -
pathized with all who suffered, were unbounded in their liberality
and lavishly hospitable. The son of James — William — was, from
a distinguished stateliness, yet engaging simplicity of carriage,
lovingly called the "old Duke." In his family I was as ata
second home, and surely if there ever was one over which the
Spirits of Benevolence, Hospitality, Loving-kindness and Unsel
fishness poured unstinted their sweet influences, it was this.
NOTICE E.
Thomas Bolling ' and Elizabeth Gay.* — These, my grand
parents, were first cousins, and reputed the one over-frugal, the
other over-proud, and though both somewhat unsociable, yet
pleasant and cordial to visitors, very hospitable and much res
pected. He rode abroad in a single-seated, single-horse chair,
with a hatless, shoeless blackamoor on the bars behind, with
bare legs and feet dangling below, while she traveled in state, in
her English-built chariot and four, with coachman and postilion
and footman in bright yellow liveries. My grandfather I never
saw, but when yet an urchin I recall my grandmother, then
very old, in a Queen Elizabeth's ruff, sitting upright and stately
as a queen in her ample, high-backed arm-chair, (behind which
stood always her waiting maid), an object of awe and wonder to
my unaccustomed eyes. They mingled little wilh the world, but
led domestic lives; he, trimming his cedars into fanciful shapes,
and overlooking his farms, and she, holding her little state amid
her house-maidens, and superintending their work. He studied
law under the distinguished Robert Carter Nicholas but made no
use of his acquisition except as a magistrate of his county.
Having mentioned Mr. Nicholas, I may not omit to recall, to
his honor, the words used by him, when, from incompatibility
with a seat in the House of Burgesses, he resigned to that body
the treasurership he had held for ten years: " I leave the office of
Treasurer," he said, "with clean hands, certainly with empty
ones," — which his known simple habits, and large bounty made
at once famous.

POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS. 61
I add from " Bristol Parish " (an interesting mine of old Church
and Family records by the Rev. Philip Slaughter), " Thomas Bol
ling had several children who were deaf and dumb. He sent
his eldest, John, to Edinburg in 1771, and put him under the care
of Thomas Braidwood, the famous and most successful teacher
of speech to deaf mutes then, or perhaps ever, known. The
others, Thomas and Mary, followed in 1775, and they all re
mained at Braidwood's Institute during the American Revolution,
returning to 'Cobbs' in 1783, John died soon after his re
turn." NOTICE F.
John Bolling ' was a man of great stature, of many good
qualities, but long of very dissipated habits. Devoting his time
to hunting, racing, and all manner of idle amusements and indul
gences, but, above all, to hard drink, he came to be called, con
temptuously, " the old Indian '' ; for the Indians, drugged by the
Circe cup of the insidious white man — as where have they not
been? — were falling before its delirating effects faster than even
before their arms, and now, transformed from their original nature,
debauched and degraded, their very name had become in the
mouths of their undoers a by-word and reproach. But for the
white man there seems, happily, to be a possible stopping point
in his downward career, denied to the immodifiable Indian, and
this gentleman furnished an instance of it. Marrying, in middle
age, a lady of great refinement and beauty (the sister of Presi
dent Jefferson), her gentle ministerings and sweet influence are
said to have won him away from his unworthier attachments,
and now reformed, his later years, prolonged to the patriarchial
term of three score and ten, appear to have been gilded once
more with the respect and consideration of all around him.
NOTICE G.
Robert Bolling,* of" Chellow," was "a lover of wisdom, and
esteemed it more precious than rubies." He was educated at
Wakefield, in England, by the celebrated Dr. Clarke. He was
learned in many languages, and wrote the " Memoirs of the Bol
ling Family " in the French tongue, a translation of which, by
John Robertson, was edited and printed by T. H. Wynne, Rich
mond, 1869. He was fond of Music and Poetry, and of the juice

62 POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS.
of the grape, but not to excess, and planted, and wrote verses
about, vineyards, and named a son Lenaeus, after the heathen
God of Wine. He was of a domestic turn and affectionate dis-
posidon, and losing early his first wife, "his soul mourned its
lost companion in tones sad as the voice of the turde bereaved
of its mate." I extract from his Lament, as a specimen of his
poetic faculty and loving nature, as well as because characteristic
of the prevalent taste of the day, a few lines : " Alas 1 these lofty
groves, feathered warblers, limpid rivulets, their scaly people and
painted margins delight not me. With my beloved, departed are
their charms; her finger showeth not their beaudes; her lips of
roses move no longer in their praise." He was patriotic, but
unambitious, and such estimation was he held in, that the popu
larity which he would not seek, followed him, and though refus
ing to be a candidate, or engage in the canvass, or even leave
his home on election day, he yet received every vote given in
his county for the House of Burgesses, which, going in good
health to attend on in Williamsburg, he sickened a few days
after, and died, untimely, in the thirty-second year of his age.
NOTICE H.
Archibald Bolling.* — I cite from "Opuscula," a litde
work of Judge John Robertson :
" He was of ordinary stature, but great round the body, and
loved the ease of a private life, and esteemed book learning of
Httle value.
" And he read no book but the Scriptures, for in them he said
was eternal life, the one thing needful, and all books that taught
the same were useless, and other knowledge was foolishness, and
led men into error and sin.
" And he read his Bible, and had prayer for his household
morning and night, and had a set of Httle Blackamoor singers
to sing hymns with him as in the days of David, and after
prayers he played on the viol.
" And when rebuked by Pharisees he reproved them in turn,
telling tliem that King David, the man after God's own heart,
and all Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instru
ments, and danced before Him with all their might.
" He was married four times, and told his last wife if she should

POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS. 63
die before him he would marry again, for it was God's own
proverb, that it was not good man should be alone, and it was a
point of conscience with him to fulfil the Scriptures.
" Like unto the old patriarch, Jacob, he was a plain man, and
when first married he lived in a log cabin at Buffalo Lick, now
'Mount Athos,' in Campbell county, and afterwards in an hum
ble dwelling in Buckingham.
" He was frugal, but hospitable and kind to all, especially to
the poor, and he took no thought of filthy lucre, and despised all
trade and traffic, for in his spirit was no covetousness nor guile.
" And he suffered his mighty forests to stand untouched by the
axe, and his fruitful fields to grow up in briers and thorns.
" He was kindly affectioned to all men, especially to his own
kin, and these he visited yearly at their distant abodes.
" AU his labors were labors of love and charity, in striving to
follow, the example of Him who went about doing good, his only
care being to lay up treasures in Heaven, and he died as he had
lived, with a conscience void of offence toward God and toward
man. " And all the days of Archibald BoUing were about seventy and
nine years.'' NOTICE I.
Elizabeth Randolph,* who married Richard Kidder
Meade. — Bishop Meade reports R. Kidder Meade as in the
habit of saying that " General Hamilton did General Washing
ton's head work, and he his field work." I dare say they did,
but it was Washington's work they both did still. He was with
Washington in all the great batdes of the Revolution. To him
was committed the superintendence of the execudon of Major
Andre, of which he always spoke with much feeling, saying he
"could not forbear shedding tears at the execution of so vir
tuous and admirable a person, though he approved the order for
it." By his first wife he had several children, but neither she
nor they Hved long. He married a second time Mrs. Mary, the
widow of WUliam Randolph of "Chatsworth," the mother of the
distinguished Bishop Meade, whose "Old Churches, etc., of
Virginia" displays the fervor alike of his piety and his patriotism,
and as a mine of rare and valuable biographical and theological
research, must have, for Virginians at least, an ever-increasing
interest.

64 POCAHONTAS AND HER DESCENDANTS.

NOTICE J.
Mary Murray, * wife of Colonel William Davies. — I am
indebted to J. M. Whittle, Esq., for the following interesting con
tribution : " My mother, Mary Ann Davies, was a daughter of
Colonel WiUiam Davies, a son of the Rev. Samuel Davies, a
minister in the Presbyterian church, who resided in Hanover
county, Virginia, and was a distinguished pulpit orator. Rev.
Mr. Davies was a native of Delaware, and was called to Hanover
when very young, where he passed all his time till called to the
presidency of Princeton College, New Jersey, in 1759. He was
a very active patriot in the French and Indian war in 1756, and his
eloquent efforts to raise troops for the war, and encourage the fading
hopes of the people, will appear from his sermons, republished in
1844, and his life by Wm, Henry Foote, D D. His sermon, 20th
July, 1755, on the defeat of Braddock, and one in August of the
same year in aid of recruits in Captain Overton's company in
Hanover, are the most striking. He succeeded Rev. Jonathan
Edwards, the renowned religious metaphysician, in the presidency
of the college, who had recently succeeded the Dr. Burr, father
of Aaron Burr, .so notorious. Dr. Davies died in 1761. His
son, WiUiam Davies, my mother's father, was graduated at
Princeton, and for some time afterwards taught in the coUege.
Richard Stockton (signer of the Declaration of Independ
ence), a distinguished lawyer of Princeton, became his guar
dian, and with him he studied the law. About the breaking
out of the Revoludonary war he returned to Virginia, and set
ded in Blandford to pracdce it. His mother was a Virginia
woman, a Miss Holt, and raised, I believe, near or in Williams
burg. He went north with General Washington, and was
engaged in some of his leading batdes, and was made a Colonel.
He condnued inthe army allthe war. The particulars of his
service I do not know, but he was much trusted and esteemed
by General Washington, who appointed him Collector at Norfolk,
in which ofiice he remained undi the election of Mr. Jefiferson.
In a compiladon of loose and interesting historic scraps by Dr.
William P. Palmer, of Richmond, lately made, wiU be seen a
good deal of him. He is the Colonel William Davies therein
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from our most distinguished men in Virginia and elsewhere, were
among his papers in my father's house, which were often men
tioned within my recollection, but were destroyed in a dfsastrous
fire in March, 1821. After the Revolution he was appointed to
settle the account between Virginia and the other States, which
kept him for several years at New York and Philadelphia, the
first capitals after the formation of the Federal Constitudon.
From the hbrary he left, and the traces through my mother's
musical and other school-books of his hand-writing, as well as my
knowledge of his estimation by Governor Tazewell, Judge Mar
shall, Major Gibbon, Colonel Gamble, Colonel Carrington, George
Keith Taylor, etc., etc., his highly cultivated mind and taste are
learned. He. married Mary, then the young widow of Alex
ander Gordon, a Scotch merchant of Petersburg, Virginia, who
had been Mary Murray, a daughter of James Murray and his
wife Ann, who was daughter of John Boiling and Mary V. Ken
non, his wife." NOTICE K.
Elizabeth Bolling, ° wife of William Robertson. — I
quote from the " Opuscula," of Judge John Robertson :
"William Robertson, who married Elizabeth Bolling, was
tall, well-shaped and well-favored, of a cheerful nature but
serious countenance, and much given to meditation on the wis
dom and works of God.
" He had a generous, humane, and affectionate heart, and
when fallen from the height of abundance into poverty, was yet
ready to share with those more needy, the pittance that was left.
"The heaviest affiictions he bore with resignadon and firm
ness, never doubting the final justice and mercy of Heaven.
" He believed the whole duty of man was that summed up
by the prophet Micah — ' Do justly, love mercy, and walk hum
bly before thy God.'
" On a seal of pebble, brought by him from the loved land of
bis fathers, transparent as gla.ss, was engraved his family device,
viz? a dove and a serpent, the symbols of innocence and wisdom,
with the motto — ' Virtutis Gloria Merces.'
" And this motto and the precept of the prophet were lamps
unto his feet and lights unto his path.
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pleasures of Hfe, and weary of his long joui ney, he gladly received
the proffered arm of man's best friend, unterrified at the thought
of entering into the dark valley and the shadow that separates
Time from Eternity, nay, hopefully assured of enjoying beyond
it the glorious reward he had ever endeavored to deserve by
exemplary virtues.
" He lived seventy-nine years, and was buried, as was his wife,
afterwards, at about the same age, in the family burying-ground
at ' Cobbs.'
" Alas ! alas ! that ancient family mansion, ' Cobbs ' ; that old
seat of hospitality and mirth ; for it hath become' a ruin and a
desolation." My father was first a merchant in Petersburg, but though
frugal and industrious, seems to have had no aptitude for trade,
and his ventures in merchandizing and afterwards mining, all
failing, he found himself, now past middle life, reduced to poverty.
He then studied law and had just commenced to practice, when
an offer from Richmond of an humble place in the Virginia
Bank, but assuring him a Hving, led him to that city. He was
soon advanced to be Clerk ofthe Council of State, and afterwards,
and long, was a Member of that body. His gentle, yet firm and
upright carriage in life won and kept him many good friends,
among whom I may name Mr. Monroe and Governor Page.
My mother was the fitting partner of such a man, living but
for him, her children, and the social circle, of which she was a
cherished member.
As my father grafted a new, and not mean, stock on the
Boilings, I may be pardoned for straying a little aside to make
a brief allusion to it. It was that ofthe Robertsons of Strowan.*
His relationship to them, how near or remote I do not know,
he was made acquainted with by an Uncle, Arthur, then
(1766) Chamberlain of the city of Glasgow, to whom he was
sent from Virginia at sixteen, to attend the schools there, and
with whom he spent two years. Afterwards, also, he visited

* These Robertsons are, now, from comparatively recent discovery of
old documents, believed to be lineally descended from Duncan, King
of Scotland. Those who are curious to know on what grounds, I
refer to Brown's "History of the Highlands" and a work not long
since published by direcdon of Queen Victoria, called (I think) the
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him on becoming of age. The heroic devotion to the Stuarts of
the celebrated Alexander Robertson, with the splendid and
varied qualities which accompanied and adorned it, "honor, he
roism, humanity, poetry, learning, and wit," preserved in the
" Baron of Bradwardine" of Scott's immortal romance, though
they led to the forfeiture of all the territorial possessions of his
family, yet secured forever the glory of his name. The great
Historian and Divine, William Robertson, Lord Brougham,
Patrick Henry, and Mr. Gladstone, all of the stock of Struan,
also illustrate its record, and have added, by broader services to
their kind and on a higher theatre, new claims on the public
gratitude and estimation, to those established by their illustrious
progenitor. NOTICE L.
William Bolling.^ — This gentleman inherited and setded at
"Cobbs," but afterwards removed to his fine estate, on James
river in Goochland county, "Boiling Hall." He was of a retir
ing disposition but much respected. He established, while at
" Cobbs," the first institution for the education of the Deaf and
Dumb seated in America, which, the prospectus states " has been
established at Cobbs, near Petersburg, Virginia and is conducted
by Mr. J. Braidwood, a descendant of the late Thomas and John
Braidwood, of Edinburg and London." It came to an unlucky
end, unfortunately, after an experiment of several years, but
through no want of proficiency in the Professor. Mr. Braid
wood fell into bad habits, contracted large debts with the
merchants of Petersburg, and suddenly fled to the* North.
In 1818 he returned to Richmond, friendless, penniless, and
almost naked, and applied to Colonel William BoUing for aid.
Mr. BoUing associated Braidwood with the Rev. Mr. Kilpatrick,
then living in Manchester, and put his son, William A. Bolling,
under his care. There were six or seven pupils. Braidwood
demeaned himself well for some months, but then again became
so dissipated that Mr. KUpatrick was forced to dissolve all con
nection with him. Braidwood finaUy fell to be bar-keeper in a
tavern, where he died, a victim to the botde, in 1819 or 1820.
Colonel BoUing was public-spirited and patriotic, often repre
senting his -County in the Legislature, and winning his commis
sion in the war of 1812.

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NOTICE M.
Thomas Bolling.' — I cite from " Bristol Parish " — " Thomas
was a miracle of accomplishments. His articulation became so
good that his family and friends understood him in conversation
and in reading aloud. He died in the sixty-seventh year of his
age at 'Gayment' (the residence of his niece, Mrs. J. H. Bernard),
in Caroline county. The late Judge Robertson (his nephew), in
an obituary printed in the Richmond Enquirer, February i8,
1836, said of him: ' He composed and wrote in a peculiar, clear,
and graphic style, and attained an artificial faculty of speech
almost equal to natural. His grace of manner, vivacity and
power of jmitadon, made him the wonder and admiration of
strangers and the delight of friends and relatives.' "
NOTICE N.
Len^us Bolling' imbibed all the spirit of WiUiam and
Mary, was brave, generous, public-spirited, studious of learning'
temperate, upright, cheerful, saving, but not sordid, and a lover
of truth. Health was denied him for much public usefulness.
A single session of the Legislature would prostrate him — to
return at each decade again to be disabled. His leading maxim
was Burke's, "manly, moral and regulated liberty," to which
deeming restricted suffrage to be essendal, he vehemendy op
posed the successfully projected removal of the freehold qualifi-
cadon of voters, which had been handed down to us in Virginia
by our fathers from 1699. He was tall, erect, swarthy, with the
straight black hair and eyes of the Indian, and with strong
sympathies for that decaying race.
NOTICE O.
Powhatan Bolling ' was also educated at WilHam and Mary
College, but was a man rather of acdon than speculadon, of fine
physique, and of strong passions, fearless and honorable, and
somewhat eccentric, both in dress and conduct. His dress was
uniformly for years " a scariet coat, white waistcoat, blue pan
taloons, and a three-cornered cocked hat." It was not safe to
remark on this fanciful get-up. One of the erratic feats tra-

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dition tells of his half-tamed and insubordinate nature, is of his
pursuing a wagoner who had trespassed on a forbidden road,
and on his refusing to halt to shoot dead the horse under him-
His gun now empty, and the wagoner clambering quickly back
into his wagon for the weU-understood rifle, Mr. Bolling retreated,
but not quick enough, and the splendid thorough-bred he was
riding received the deadly load intended for its rider. He was
at some distance from his house, and the time lost in returning to
it and obtaining a remount, had enabled his adversary to baffle
pursuit. His hasty temper involved him in several duels. He
was a skiUed and ardent musician, and his violin, made in Ger
many in 1646, was recently and is probably still extant. He
was an opponent of John Randolph for a seat in Congress,
waging no mean or unequal contest even with that redoubtable
champion, having been beaten by but five votes.
NOTICE P.
Blair Bolling ^ would have been a hero with the oppor
tunity. He had all the daring, devotion and fearlessness to make
one. Once, about 1823 or 1824, returning with him on a coast
ing vessel from a visit we had made together to New York, he
gave signal evidence of his courage. It had been reported at
New York that a piratical vessel had been observed hovering
about our coasts. As we were nearing Cape Henry a suspicious
looking craft, and very erratic in her motions, was seen some
miles off our starboard bow. After some quite uninteUigible
gyrations she bore right down on us. Our captain turned pale
with fear, and the whole of the little crew was totally demoral
ized. This was no doubt the reported pirate. The captain, as
she neared us, distinctly saw through his glass, he said, a cannon
on her deck, and men crouching beside her bulwarks. One
solitary rusty old musket was our whole armament. All but
Bolling counseUed and prepared to surrender. He loaded the
musket, and despite the Captain's decision declared his pur
pose, if he stood alone, to kill the first man that touched our
deck. The pirate luffed up quite close to us, and when we wei;e
expecting every moment a shot from her, hailed and begged us
to give him his reckoning, as he had quite lost it, and did not
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purpose, sitting ready with his old musket at the taflfrail. His
after career as Captain of the ' ' State Guard ' ' (in his day a
turbulent and refractory band) furnished many practical proofs
of the dauntless spirit he then exhibited. He was a stern disciplin
arian, exacting from those he commanded that strict performance
of duty he imposed on himself, but just and forgiving. He was
of tall stature, of fine presence, and high character.
NOTICE Q.
Dr. William Tazewell. — I am indebted to one of his chil
dren for a brief notice of his father. " He was prosecuting his
studies at the University of Edinburgh, when he was so heavily
threatened with consumption that the Faculty ordered him to tfie
south of France. When he arrived at Paris, my father having
sold his patrimony to give himself an education, had spent his
last sou for a cup of beer and a roll. He at once applied to
Chief-Justice MarshaU, then our Envoy there. Mr. Marshall
asked him if he could speak French. He replied, ' like a
native.' 'Then you will answer exacdy for Secretary ofthe
American Minister (Mr.  ), for he understands so litde
French that he has to say ' Donney moi a fork,' or ' Donney moi
some beef So my father became the Secretary ofthe American
Minister, and his interpreter. It was during the Directory that
my father was there. He attended the Botanical Lectures of the
celebrated Cuvier, which he used to deliver at the Botanical
Garden, a mile from Paris.
"My grandfather. Judge John TazeweU, was of Norman des
cent. His ancestors were Knights in the reign of William the
Conqueror. Some of his brothers were Prebends of Canterbury.
He died about thirty-three years of age of consumption."
NOTICE R.
John Randolph."— He was a Lustes Natures— one of those
eccentric meteors, she, at dmes, casts athwart the skies, to at
once dazzle and perplex the beholder. He stood alone of his
race and kind ; alone in the blinding brightness of his intellect,
and in his seeming almost total destitudon of heart. It seems
doubtful if he ever loved a human being with natural affection-
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to border on the supernatural. Even she whom he sought for
his Bride, at almost the supreme moment when he was to bind
her to his side forever, fled terrified from his embrace. On the
instant, he angrily mounted his horse and never saw her again.
The cause of their faUing out, though dimly surmised in men's
thoughts and whisperings, yet never disclosed, lies buried with
them. His delight, more particularly, perhaps, from that notable hour,
appears to have been to annoy and disconcert even his satel
lites and friends by his arrogance and contumely, and crush his
enemies under his bitter scorn— indeed all whom he touched in
his orbit : friend or foe, good or bad, weak or strong, alike —
and to witness their writhings or discomfiture. Let one iUus
tration suffice. His truest friend, and one of the highest of men
(Judge William Leigh), sat with him at his fireside conversing,
when Mr. Randolph allowed himself to ofifensively contradict
him. Though late in the night. Judge Leigh-,-Mr. Randolph
making no apology — requested him to order his horse, as he
would not sleep under the roof of a man who had insulted
him. Mr. Randolph rose and went out apparently to fulfil
his request. Instead, " the horse had escaped from the stable"
(haying been turned out by his order). Judge Leigh had
no alternative but stay. Mr. Randolph the next morning
lavished every attention on him, but ofifered no other atone
ment Thus he dealt with his best and most prized friqnd.
He was the impersonation of opposition and aggressiveness,
though when he chose, which was rarely, nothing could ex
ceed the elegance, refinement and charm of his manners.
He stood by what is, hating innovation, because what is
stands always in opposition to change and progress. He spared
none, except such as he must needs have, at times, to help his
ends, or minister to his ease, and these felt well paid for their
complaisance by the regal smile which saved them from his
spleen. With rare exceptions he sought to pull everybody down
who stood in his way or opposed his views. Avarice alone
(never more painfully displayed than in connection with the
Russian Mission), divided with hate and scorn for his kind, the
sombre empire of his bosom. He lay usually in his lonely lair,
avoiding and avoided by men, and was hardly less alone in
crowds than in his hermitage at Roanoke ; but he let Ambition

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and the love of power and money prevail over his misanthropy
so far as needful to secure the gratification of these engrossing
aims. The victims of his eccentriciues were innumerable, but
none of them so wretched as himself, or so deserving to be pitied.
Doubtless some secret grief, or eating worm, seamed the smooth
face of his boyhood, untimely, wilh wrinkles and destroyed its
purple bloom, preyed on the gentler traits of his original nature
and left his worser powers unbalanced (at times there is good
reason to believe indeed, wholly unhinged) to enjoy their carnival;
the very withering or want of those moral elements, imparting an
unnatural splendor and power to his intellect, and adding Titanic
force to his thence unchecked sinister impulses. I am reminded,
while I write, of a deer I once had. Of rare beauty, at once,
and strength, he ruled imperiously over his subjects. He grew
ill, became morose and dangerous, and more and more an object
of terror and awe to all he approached. The herd quickly fell
off to right and. left as he took his way through them, and every
one kept clear of him. At length, the hand that reared him was
the only one whose caresses he would permit. A hidden disease
was telling on him, and one of his antlers fell from his head.
I missed him for a day or two, then went to seek him. At the
bottom of a basin-like depression of the park, I found him, ter
ribly emaciated, with head reverted, licking his flank. He had
licked the hair off clean from a space the size of a man's hand,
and still seemed trying to reach the source of his agony — and so
died. I think I see in this case the explanadon and atoning plea
for the strange and almost unnatural fierceness that came over Mr.
Randolph's spirit. Let blame fall lightly, then, on one whom
nature or fate thus dealt with in so hard a measure. His proper
wretchedness might soften even his worst foe or his sorest victim,
as far exceeding any that he inflicted. Let the bolt which human
censure, ignorant of cause, and hence unfit to wield, might be
tempted to hurl at him, be caught, timely, by that pity we all
need, and leave him to be judged, where alone causes and con
sequences can be seen together, and unerring justice meted out.
His Oratory was unique, and weU nigh irresistible.
I was present in 1829, when he delivered almost the last words,
I believe, he ever spoke in a public capacity. He rose slowly
and stood, tall, graceful and composed, before his peers— a
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Madison and Marshall, surrounded by many lesser but shining
lights, yet shed their setdng glories. The question was on a
clause providing for future amendments to the Constitution.
He spoke more as an Augur, declaring the evils to come out
of the provision he was examining, than as a Statesman discuss
ing them. He used little action, as though stirred rather than
contorted, by the "present Deity." His voice was clear, far-
reaching through the hall — not sweet, but with something that
took captive every ear, Hke a trumpet heard afar off at night.
His eyes glittered with their wonted brightness, nor did his fafe-
ful fore- finger forget that day its office. He denounced the clause
he was assailing as carrying a condemnation with it of the instru
ment that contained it as a death-warrant on its brow, and cov
ered it, and withered it, with his burning scorn. The Assembly
yielded, as under the spell of a magician, a compliance that cost
much trouble to the people when twenty years afterwards they
wished to amend the instrument, and which a wiser firmness
would have saved them from.
Mr. Randolph filled a large space in his country's eye from
the dawn of his manhood to his most sorrowful death; but though
always felt in her councils, he never swayed them. His life was
one of wasted opportunities, and resultless energies.
No monument remains of good effected by him for his kind.
Where, in a conspicuous instance — the emancipation of his
slaves — he may be believed to have sought to raise one, he out
aggravated the suffering he intended to relieve. He dazzled, but
did not warm, and no fruits ripened in his rays. He passed-^-
drawing our gaze of wonder as he went, but leaving only a
troubled memory when he vanished RESUME.
In surveying the above two parent, and largely determining,
as well as more easily estimated. Groups — the Fifth and Sixth
from the savage form of life — we may fitly pause a moment to
denote generally their leading characteristics as derived through
tradirion, and all that is known of them. In disposition, they
seeln to have been mild, but firm ; brave, but not aggressive;
unambitious, but public spirited ; affectionate with one another,
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excess, and more commonly inclined to social and literary pur
suits than hard work and enterprise, and hence constantly decay
ing in fortune. In talents, usuaUy respectable, and sometimes
superior, rarely deficient. In character, upright and unre-
proached. They formed in general that intelligent and virtuous
Middle Class which everywhere forms the main pillar and stay of
cociety and government. The Murrays, the Boilings, the Gays,
the Eldridges, and their descendants, may more abundantly sup
port this statement, though hardly more strikingly than other
branches of the stock.
Burk, the Historian of Virginia (cited by Bishop Meade),
wridng, in 1804, of what he calls " this remnant of the imperial
family of Virginia, which long ran in a single person, now in
creased and branched out into a numerous progeny," says :
" The virtues of mildness and humanity, so eminently dis
tinguished in Pocahontas, remain in the nature of an inheritance
to her posterity. There is scarcely a scion from this stock which
has not been in the highest degree amiable and respectable, "
and adds that he is " acquainted with several meiiibers of this
family who are intelligent, and even eloquent, and if fortune
keep pace with their merits, should not despair of attaining a
conspicuous and even exalted station in the Commonwealth."
In the after career of several of those he alluded to, most con
spicuously in John Randolph, this prediction was fully verified.
NOTICE S.
The Whittles. — The American head of this family, For
tescue, came to Virginia about 1799 or 1800, a young man,
who had been engaged in the Irish troubles in which Robert
Emmett was beheaded, and which banished Thomas Addis Em
mett and other eminent men to this country. Mr. Whittle was a
Protestant. He setded in Norfolk and went into business with
an elder brother there, Conway, who had emigrated to Virginia
soon after the Peace of 1783. His son, William Conway, entered
the United States Navy and remained in it tiU the Secession war,
when he resigned and was made a Commodore in the Confede
rate service. He was engaged in the naval part of the Mexican
war (in which he was wounded), and in the Confederate service
rendered rauch desultory service on York river, along the Missis-

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sippi and its tributaries and commanded the naval forces at New
Orleans when it feU.
Other members of this family have won and still live to enjoy
merited distinction. The author of the foregoing note stands
second to no one at the Virginia bar. Stephen Decatur was
Secretary of the State Convention of 1850, and William Conway,
Jr., Confederate States Navy, while yet a youth, shared all the
dangers and all the honors of the cruise of the Shenandoah.
RT. REV. F. M. WHITTLE, D. D., LL D.
• Of the immediate subject of this notice I am indebted to the
Rev. John J. Lloyd, St. Thomas' Church, Abingdon, for the
foUowing sketch :
Rt. Rev. Francis McNeece Whittle, D. D., LL.D., fifth Bishop
of the Diocese of Virginia, was born in Mecklenburg county,
Virginia, July 7th, 1823.
His father, Fortescue Whittle, Esq., of County Antrim, Ire
land, settled in Norfolk, Va., early in present century.
His mother was Mary Davies, grand-daughter of Rev. Samuel
Davies, President of Princeton CoUege, and daughter of Colonel
William Davies of the Revolutionary army, aid to General Wash
ington, and appointed by him collector of Norfolk, Va,
Mrs. Whittle's mother was Mary Murray, of Chesterfield
county. Bishop Whitde graduated at the Theological Seminary of
Virginia in the summer of 1847 ; was ordered Deacon in St.
Paul's Church, Alexandria, Va., July 16, the same year, and
was ordained Priest in St. John's, Charleston, Va. (now West
Virginia), October 8th, 1848, by Bishop William Meade. He
was successively Rector of Kanawha Parish, Kanawha county,
Virginia (1847-49); St. James' -Northam Parish, Goochland
county, Virginia (1849-52); Grace, Berryville, Va. (1852-57) ;
St. Paul's, Louisville, Kentucky (1857-68).
At the Council of the Diocese of Virginia, held 1867, he was
elected Assistant Bishop of Virginia, and was consecrated in St.
Paul's, Alexandria, April 30, 1868, by Bishops Johns of Virginia,
Lee of Delaware, and Bedell of Ohio.
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nary of Ohio, 1867, and that of LL.D. from the College of
William and Mary.
He became Bishop AprU 5, 1876. In 1877 the Diocese was
divided, the Slate, known as West Virginia, being erected into a
separate Diocese.
He married. May 15, 1848, Emily Cary, daughter of Wilson
Miles Cary Fairfax, and Lucy A. Griffith, his wife, and who was
great-grand-daughter of Rev. Bryan, Lord Fairfax, Rector of
Falls Church Parish, Virginia, and of Rev. David Griffith,
D. D., Chaplain and Surgeon in the Army of the Revolution,
and the first Bishop elect of Virginia.
NOTICE T.
Thomas Bolling Robertson ' was educated at William and
Mary, and commenced the pracdce of law at Petersburg. -There
he was intimate with John Thomson, who, as " Curtius," dispudng,
passibus eqnis, with John Marshall, already renowned, achieved,
at twenty-four, a celebrity that no one before or since in Virginia
so early attained. For his death, immediately ensuing, he
expressed his grief in very touching verses. Ther^, too, he
became acquainted with Burk, the Historian, who was much
attached to him, and who, dying soon after, bequeathed his
only son, Junius, afterwards a Judge in Louisiana ('twas all
he left besides his book) to his care.
In 1807, he received from Mr. Jefferson the appointment of
Secretary to the new Territory of Louisiana from which time he
resided in that State. He was the first Representative of the
State in the Congress of the United States, and served with dis
tinction and acceptability to his constituents in that body for
several sessions, then retiring from impaired health and increas
ing distaste for Congressional life He was an efficient supporter
of the administration of fvlr. Madison, who divided with Mr.
Lowndes (his ideal Statesman) his highest admiration and con
fidence. Late in life, he said that of all the public men he had
known, these two he considered the purest and most disinter
ested. Mr. Clay he ranked for his ambition only a step below
them. While in Congress, Mr. Randolph (John) made some
offensive reflecdon on a vote he had given in favor of a diity on
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apologize, my brother challenged him. The challenge was
declined on the grpund, as assigned by himself, that he did not
hold himself bound to meet such demands whensoever any
gentleman chose to feel himself aggrieved.
My brother soon afterwards paid a short visit to Paris. As a
member of the American Congress, at that period but rare visi
tants to Europe, he was treated with much consideration. He
was present in the Hall of the Deputies at the sitting at which
Bonaparte, calm, and apparently confident in the invincibility of
his Eagles, took leave of the Deputies on his fateful departure for
Waterloo. He remained in Paris during the Hundred Days, saw
rolled into the city the captured cannon, announcing a great vic
tory for the French, followed instantly after by Bonaparte in per
son, flying from his mighty disaster; and again saw him, now
when he came before the same Body in his despair to abdicate
Empire, and, as it proved, even personal Hberty forever, as calm
and as self coUected as, when going, he left them in the flush of
his hopes. A graphic account of the "Events in Paris" was
given by Mr. Robertson in letters to his family, written while they
were transpiring, which were published first in the Richmond
Enquirer, and afterwards by Carey, of Philadelphia, in book
form and went through several editions. His Congressional career
ended, he was soon after elected Governor of Louisiana. Serv
ing his constitutional term, he resumed the practice of law in
New Orleans, and was soon made Attorney-General, and shortly
after appointed United States District Judge for Louisiana. His
health now greatly broken {dulcis reminiscitur Argos), he came
to Virginia in the hope of restoring it amid the scenes and
friends of his youth, and in the society of his aged parents
(from all which neither time nor distance had ever for a moment
estranged his affections), but died as he had lived, honorably
poor, at the White Sulphur Springs, where the tomb erected over
him by his widow stiU marks his last resting place. He was a
man of extensive information and enlarged views, of clear mind,
of elevated aims, of simple tastes, a lover of flowers and plants
and versed in their lore, of spodess integrity, of warm affecdons,
and of immovable firmness ; but a gende nature was so blended
in him, with decision of character mirrored in a face of rare
beauty, that he was as generaUy beloved, as he was universaUy
respected. Among those who honored him with their warm

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friendship, and possessed his, were Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Clay,
General Zachary Taylor and Lieutenant-General Scott — a friend
ship which, could they speak, none would be so ready as them
selves to acknowledge, was as honoring to them as to him.
When years after his death the writer was casually introduced to
General, then President Taylor, the latter observing some like
ness, and inquiring the relationship, embraced him as a brother,
and opened himself to him on the delicate topics that then
engaged him as he might have done lo a tried friend. Such
friendships, more than office, eulogies, or monuments, best attest
worth. NOTICE U.
John Robertson.' — The subject of this notice was for many
years of his life in the service of the State, either as a member
of the House of Representatives of the United States, or as
Circuit Judge or as Attorney-General of the State. In all these
pubHc capacides his many good qualities, his boldness, his frank
ness, his generosity, and his high sense of honor, together with his
ingenuity and ability of intellect, earned him the respect and affec-
don of aU who knew him weU. His mind was marked both by
ingenuity and ability, and foUowing its operations fully and fear
lessly, as he was wont to do, he was somedmes led to conclu
sions which were regarded as extreme, as he was apt to express
them without fear upon any singularity of opinion, or from any
deviadon of common sentiment. Of this last he was less in awe
than any public man of my acquaintance. He thought freely,
spoke boldly, and suffered neither fear, favor nor affecdon tp
seduce him from what he believed to be truth. Had truth in
deed been lying at the bottom of a deep well, he is one of the
few I have known who I believe to be capable of jumping after
it to preserve and display it. In doing this, he cared for no pre
judices which he might provoke, and shrunk from no denunci-
adons he might stir up, but fearlessly foUowed the germs he was
pursuing, without regard for the difficulties into which it might
lead him.
The friend who has written these few lines did not concur with
Judge Robertson in all his opinions, but he never failed to admire
the spirit in which they were conceived and expressed. If any
man in his course through life has earned for himself the epi-

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graph of " honest and true" on his memorial slab, surely that
man was Judge John Robertson.
R. M. T. Hunter.
To the foregoing tribute of its eminent author, who knew the
subject of it almost alone by pohtical association, I add a few
other traits and incidents of Judge Robertson's character and
career. He was born at " Belfield," his father's residence, below Peters
burg, and came with the family to Richmond about 1803. There
he spent his life, except his college years at Williamsburg, and
his closing ones at his country home. " Mount Athos," near Lynch
burg. Adopting the profession of Law he soon won distinction,
and was made Attorney-General of the State in 188—. He was
learned, laborious, and conscientious in the discharge of every
duty. No wealth, position, or influence, could qualify his zeal or
daunt his efforts, or baffle them when exerted in the cause of
right. When engaged in such a cause, whether as Advocate or
Judge, none felt solicitude about the result, for aU knew there
was no art nor ability could deceive his vigilance, or corrupt
his fidelity, or bias or betray his judgment, or elude his pursuit.
In politics he was a doctrinal Democrat of the Jefferson
school, but never a thraU to party. He was a ready, stinging,
and aggressive debater. In his canvass for Congress, his arraign
ment of Jackson was so sharp that the latter's admirers sought
to silence him by persistent shouts of " Hurrah for Jackson !"
"I beg pardon, my friends," said he, inthe first lull ofthe clamor,
"for having said there was no argument in defence of Jackson's
conduct I could not answer. There is one— it is ' Hurrah for Jack
son !' " He was litde troubled afterwards by interruptions, and car
ried his election. In Congress his abUides were highly estimated.
By his friends he was called a sdckler for the Consdtution, so
strict was his loyalty to it; and an illustrative story was invented
on him by his witty and waggish friend, Waddy Thompson, of
South Carolina, that once being in Washington, and supposed
about to die, he begged him as his last request not to allow him
to be buried at pubHc expense, for he thought it would be clearly
unconstitutional. In our late civil embroilment, though not one more sternly
than he demanded immunity for his State from interference with

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her domestic system, yet was he known to so earnestly deprecate
violent measures, as long as honorably avoidable, that he was
sent by Virginia to her sister States of the South to urge forbear
ance, while ex-President Tyler was dispatched on a similar mis
sion to President Buchanan. Failing of success, they both dedi
cated their closing years to the defence, in the high posts assigned
them, of the invaded rights and territory of their State and the
South. Among other evidences of his devotion may be mentioned
his giving his town residence to the Cause as a soldier's hospital.
His mind was always aglow with activity, seeking recreation
from severer labors only in roaming over, and lovingly cultivating,
the fields of Literature. While those labors denied him its heaviest
harvests, yet his tragedy of " Riego, the Spanish Martyr," his
principal oblation at the shrine of letters; his " Opuscula " teem
ing with the finest specimens of satire as of praise, and of felici
tous portraiture; his Scholarly address at the opening of the
Athenaeum at Richmond, etc., evidence by their breadth of
thought, richness of imagery and beauty of diction, that, in spite
ofthe drawbacks alluded to, he attained a very high order of lite
rary achievement. I cite a few lines of his " Riego," which, though
I know that such mere shreds can do no justice to the work, may
yet serve to show that my praise of it is not wholly undeserved.
Riego speaks to Diaz, a youth, of General Washington :
" Why name that name
Unknown to Heraldry, though brighter ne'er
Was blazoned on the Rolls of Fame— which echoes
In terror from the Palace dome, but carries
Joy to the Cotter's roof! His brow severe.
Of native dignity, no jeweled crown
E'er tarnished, but, instead, the civic oak,
Mingled with laurel boughs, his temples bound.
As by one soul inspired, the undaunted Gaul
And spotless Chief breasted the storm, nor ceased
Their toils till they had won a nation's Liberty;
The worid's esteem, the approving smile of Heaven.
Freedom's unsceptred son, his Country's Saviour,
Now dwells in bliss ; his glory freshening in
The stream of Time, and still while that stream flows.
Shall his loved memory be hymned in praise.''
His own private traits were such as to attach, by their sympa-
thedc tenderness, those he loved and valued to him with hooks

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of steel, but he looked severely on the bad, the hypocritical and
the proud, and was not beloved by such. Nothing so awoke
him to effort as oppression and fraud, and while knave and
spoiler shrank from the swoop of his talons, the widow and the
orphan nestled in safety under his protecting wing. Shortly be
fore his death, when past four score, he wrote of himself this
" Pre-Obituary."
"When my long pilgrimage is over, I desire no invited com
pany nor services beyond those of laying me in my last bed.
Let those who may happen to be present — my household friends,
kind neighbors and faithful servants — perform for me that service ;
nor let them sorrow over me, who has had his share of the bless
ings as well as the sufferings no mortal can escape, and who,
though repenting the many aberrations of a frail nature, has
never felt the pangs of a guilty conscience, and is not left as one
without hope." NOTICE V.
Wyndham Robertson.' Save as the compiler of this little
work, rendering it perhaps a duty to his readers, this Notice
would have been spared. I wiU limit it mainly to points that
more or less tend to inspire confidence in the trustworthiness,
or, at least, good faith of my compilation. I finished an imper
fect education (but the best always which the res angusta of my
parents, pinching even their own frugal housekeeping for the
purpose, would admit of) by two interrupted sessions at WiUiam
and Mary under the briUiant presidency of Dr. John Augustine
Smith. That gentleman's flashing and suggestive lectures waked
to new Hfe the dormant faculdes of liis pupils, and taught to them,
too, the independent and fearless use of them, which he practiced
himself. It was a lesson which, aglow with the. fresh excitement,
his classes were swift to apply, in clamorous disputation, as soon
as they issued from the lecture room.
I was admitted to the bar in 1824. In 1827 I made a short
visit to London and Paris. In 1830 I was made a CounciUor of
State. On the occasion of the French Revolution, in the same
year, I was called on to give utterance to the enthusiasm of the
city of Richmond by a public address at the capitol. Processions
and parades, flags, banners, bands of music and cannon, further
tesdfied to the warm sympathy of the out-poured crowds of its

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cidzens. Sharing the fervor ofthe hour, I was fortunate in inter-
predng the general feeling and in winning that favor and confi
dence of the City, which, often experienced, was never withdrawn
during my long residence in it — always a source to me of, I hope
a legitimate, pride, and which I trust I shall be pardoned for
alluding to.
In 1833 I was again elected to the Council of State, now re
duced from eight to three members.
In 1834, at the first meeting of the James Jliver and Kanawha
Company, I proposed, in lieu of the projected canal, a measure
that looked to a railroad connection in lieu of by canal between
Richmond and the Great West. Although, from the fear of
hazarding a crude and unproven system against a sure and
tried one, it was decisively defeated, it had the distinguished
sanction of such men as Dr. Brockenborough, Judge Nicholas,
Moncure Robinson and Judge Robertson. The supreme com
mercial advantages to Richmond and Virginia that would have
been secured to them by opening her Western Railroad connec
tions in advance of all others, and which other States hastened
to appropriate, need not be dwelt on.
On the 3iEt of March, 1836, becoming Lieutenant-Governor,
Governor Tazewell resigned his office on the same day into my
hands for the remaining year of his term. It was unmarked ex
cept by the rapid spread of abolitionism, to which I called the
attention of the Legislature, and recommended that Commis
sioners should be sent to the Northern States, appealing to them
to unite in measures to arrest, and, if possible, compose, the
threatened troubles. But the recommendation was not acted on.
The Legislature elect being- largely Democratic, the Whigs
declined contesdng the Executive Offices in 1837-8. Imme
diately after I was elected to the Legislature from the city
of Richmond, and was condnued in it, until I removed to
the country in 1841. Returning to Richmond in 1858, in
the midst of the troubles that soon resulted in our late war,
my old constituents again demanded my services, and con
tinued to require them to the close of the contest. A friend to
peace and the Union, I actively opposed the overtures of South
Carolina in 1859 for a Southern Convention, as, in ray opinion,
calculated only to stiU more imperil them. After that State and
others had seceded, I stiU urged a refusal on the part of Virginia
to foUow them, and reported (as the organ of a committee), the

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day it met, 7th January, 1861, the resolution known as the And-
Coercion Resoludon, in effect rejecting secession, but declaring
if coercion were eraployed by the Federal Governraent against
the seceded States, Virginia would fight with the South. The
resolution was adopted with rauch unanimity, and the State now
addressed itself to measures of reconcilement, all of which I
advocated, and some proposed. All failed, and soon Mr. Lin
coln's Proclamation of war, presenting the contingency she had
provided lor, Virginia stood upon her defence. In this, and all
after measures in aid of the war, I fully concurred. And now,
after twenty years' experience of yet unripened results, I have
no regrets, nor repent a single act of my State, or myself, in
these unhappy affairs — welcoming the end of slavery, but still
believing it would have been reached without the horrors of war.
In 1863 a Bill "to fix prices of food," &c., was proposed,
which, believing to be fraught with the direst mischief, I earnestly
Opposed and contributed to defeait. .
In 1864 some hundreds of my constituents assembled and
passed a resolution demanding of their representatives to support
a simUar bill or resign. I had no difficulty in refusing to a com
mittee their peremptory demand of a compliance with their
resolutions, but finding afterwards that all my colleagues had
yielded to it, and left apparently in the position of misrepresenting
my constituents, and stripped of influence, I resigned in a note
to the House, and at once left my seat. Immediately after, that
body did me the honor unanimously to request the withdrawal of
my resignation till the wishes of my constituents could be better
ascertained, and sent a committee to me to convey their wishes.
I, of course, acceded to the request. A formal poll was held in
the city by order of the Council, and my views sustained by
my constituents, as afterwards by the House.
Since the close of the war, bowing to the arbitrament of the
sword as final between States, and deprecating the restoration
of slavery, now abolished, as earnesdy as I had opposed the
abolition of it, I have been wholly withdrawn from acdve
politics, except indeed in heardly cooperating in every proposed
measure for healing and reconcilement between the States, and
for the redintegration of Virginia, and have found gratifying
occupation in part in preparing this compiladon, and also a
" VindicaUon of the course of Virginia throughout the Slave
Controversy," probably soon tt) be pubhshed.

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NOTICE W.
Charles Joseph Cabell, born 1789. He graduated at Wil
liara and Mary. Read law under Governor WiUiam H. Cabell
and William Wirt. Mr. Wirt pronounced him the greatest man
of his age in Virginia. He eraigrated to New Orleans, and in a
few months took rank with Philip R. Grymes,  Holmes, and
Edward Livingston — so said Governor Thomas Bolling Robert
son. He was three times called to the field (so called) of honor :
First, with General Ben. Jones, then of Amelia, afterwards of
Alabama; second, with Dr. Upshaw, at New Orleans, but who
went from King and Queen, Va. ; third, with a Mr. Nicholson,
of New Orleans, a nephew of Lawyer Abner L. Duncan, who
instigated the deed. He died of veDow fever on the 23d of No
vember, 1 8 10, in the city of New Orleans, aged only twenty one
years. — From Notes of the late General Ben. W. S. Cabell.
RESUMfi.
The Pocahontas Stock. — In view of all I have heard, read
or known of them, I think it may be fairly said that they were
more prudent than enterprising, more wasteful than Hberal, more
amiable than censorious, more respected than distinguished,
more honest than able, more patriotic than indifferent, more
conservative than radical, more pious than bigoted, and while a
few fell to the depths of worthlessness, but none to crime, a few
also rose to the height of genius and virtue.

ADDENDUM.

Of Jenny Eldridge, * known to my boyhood by everybody
as " Old Cousin Jenny," and to whose active inquisidons owes
much, I am enabled by a recent communication to say that she
was a family celebrity, distinguished for her alertness of body
and mind — a bright wit, a fine memory, and especially for devo
tion to her Indian blood, and all its lore and tradition. It was
said of her that she could call the name and kinship of every
descendant of Pocahontas. She was the chief store-house, there
fore, and authority of her day of everything known concerning
her family in the minutest pardculars before and during her
time. To her is due the preserved knowledge of the head
spring of many of its branches, which else had been irrecover
ably lost.

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