I had read that she seemed to have had a brief marriage before. This might have been mostly ceremonial or a betrothal or something, as she was around 11 or 12 when the English arrived. She was, tho, kidnapped at one point by the English and held in the fort at Jamestown, I believe it was while John Smith and other leaders were away, and the men left behind got pretty out of control. Her story is very complex, "The New World" is the only movie I've seen that really goes into it all. Eventually her father disowned her, after her helping the English so much and the English raids and depradations, and sent her to live with her mother's people, the Potawomack Indians on the Rappahannock River. She was later traded for a copper pot and brought back to Jamestown by the English. I don't know if her father ever saw her again after he banished her to the Potawomack. But when he heard of her death, he removed himself to a village as far as he could get from the whites and died a year or so later; he obviously still loved her greatly to the end. Nancy ------- Outside our doors and windows there is a gift that is a million gifts - the gift of Creation. On Oct 3, 2006, at 10:44 PM, Bob Juch wrote: > Anita, > > Pocahontas certainly wasn't kidnapped. She was given in marriage > by her > father, the chief of the Powhatans, just as European royalty arranged > marriages between their children to form alliances. > > She may or may not have been asked how she felt about it, but I'm > sure her > tribe accepted that as business as usual. > > Do you have the citation for her being married before? > > Bob Juch > http://www.Juch.org > > > -----Original Message----- > From: vahenric-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:vahenric- > bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of alani2@yahoo.com > Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 6:18 PM > To: vahenric@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [VAHENRIC] St. Mary's Cemetery:: Richmond, Va. > > > I was reading on one site, that Pocahontas was married > to a Native before being kidnapped. Most of the > accounts given about Pocahontas are from the European perspective. > There are > no accountings from the Natives themselves as to how they felt, > when one of > their own was taken. > > Anita > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VAHENRIC- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message