[email protected] wrote: > > 1. I don't know how accurate it is, but there is a > substantial narrative about the Jamestown > colony at > > http://www.history.org/other/journal/smith.htm > > which is mainly about Captain John Smith, but which makes mention, > several times, of Captain John (Sicklemore) Ratcliffe. > > 2. Has anyone seen the movie, "Pocohontas"? > Is John (Sicklemore) Ratcliffe made out to be the villain of the piece? > I heard this somewhere, but I do not go to movies, so I don't know. > > Pip > > ==== RATLIFF Mailing List ==== > Neither HTML nor RTF is acceptable for mailing lists. It causes > problems for Rootsweb servers and for certain email programs. > Please turn these functions off. The following URL explains how > to correct the problem in various programs. > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/listowners/html-off.htm Yes, Pip, John Ratcliffe was the villain, thanks to Disney. I didn't see the movie, either, but my little niece was deeply disappointed. He was far from being a hero or even a good governor but he didn't deserve the opprobrium heaped on him by later generations. John Smith was shackled and jailed; Ratcliffe never was. Gary Radcliffe