Before you open this file, let me share just a tidbit of what I have learned. There are many people today who are descendants of Pocahontas. I am not certain of this number and I doubt that anyone is, but an estimation would be over 200,000 of her descendants are alive, if not well, in the United States today. Some of us Wilburns are also descendants. And in fact, the hugh volume of descendants of Pocahontas do contain names of some Wilburns or Welborns...Those so noted (and I do apologize that I did not take notes when I hastily reviewed this book when I was doing research in Washington DC back in 1995) but I can recall that those Wilburns in the book were residents of TX and were noted as descendants through their other ancestors and not due to a direct Wilburn line to Pocahontas.)..... But most of us Wilburns today are closely related to Pocahontas and her family. And some of us may be descendants through the Randolph or Lewis line. (Please do not hold my feet to the fire if I am wrong here.)...Note key word is "Maybe"...What we do know is that many of Pocahontas descendants were living in Goochland, VA c 1750. Some of descendants of Pocahontas and John Rolfe were Bolings or Bollings and Bowles too. Some were also Randolphs. As in the Randolph family of Thomas Jefferson. And yes, Thomas Jefferson did live in Goochland, VA in his youth. I hesitate to say much more on this subject since I am not a scholar...but there are a few things that I have uncovered and would like to share with you. Wilburns and Hughes lines...Many Wilburns (not all) but many Wilburns with early VA roots have a Hughes ancestor. Some of us have several lines of the same Hughes families. Often we descend from the same ancestors many times. My own parents who had a chance meeting in San Diego, share ancestors from 200 years before they met up. Who knew???? Many of us can say the same thing. And we also share our colonial ancestors with millions (yes, millions of other people in America today.) Indeed, it boggles the mind at how related we actually are. But I am digressing here. Back to Wilburns and Hughes. TRADER HUGHES appears to be the HUGHES ancestor of the Hughes of Goochland and Amherst Co VA. I remain uncertain as to when the first Hughes and Wilburn marriage took place. It appears that Richard Wilburn and his Hughes wife were married by c 1750, if not much sooner. There could be earlier Hughes/Wilburn marriages too. (keep in mind that only 25% of VA marriage records survive). Now Trader Hughes ...and I suspect that his given name was BEES Hughes...but this is my hunch and certainly not proved. Again, please keep this in mind...But he was known by all of his associations as simply 'Trader' Hughes...because that is exactly what he did. At any event, Trader Hughes m Niskitti (an Indian girl) and kin to Pocahontas. As you will be able to see when you click on this file, there are many disputes about these exact relationships...But no one disputes these connections...instead those more sophisticated that I, take issue with just who begot whom... And in closing, thanks Christine for your kind words. I had you in mind, when I went to this Pocahontas website... And I do invite the rest of you to visit too... Cheers Vikky at vikkya@msn.com http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?trader,hughes::pocahontas::177.html