Interesting how the land that didn’t belong to us became the ownership of people who needed slavery , both of the indentured and the Africans at the time , to keep that land. The fact that nothing is available to identify/ clarify who his wife and mother of his 8 children was, tends to support women’s lot in life as well as perhaps the fact she was indeed Pocahontas’s cousin. Wouldn’t that be interesting to have her be of American Indian heritage so he could justify taking more of her peoples land as his own. Your history stories are very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, isn't it interesting how that land thing worked? As for the identity of his wife, gallons of ink has been spilled on the topic, but I think the Pocahontas cousin thing is disproven, and the Native American scholars do not accept the theory - I think the proposed identity was Rachael, niece of Powhattan, and one of the young women taken to England with Pocahontas, and allegedly impregnated there by Croshaw. It is a compelling story, but modern scholars are entirely discounting it. A couple of alternate English identities have also been proposed, but the fact is there is just no evidence. She'll have to live on in the genes of her descendants, if not in name.
Interesting how the land that didn’t belong to us became the ownership of people who needed slavery , both of the indentured and the Africans at the time , to keep that land. The fact that nothing is available to identify/ clarify who his wife and mother of his 8 children was, tends to support women’s lot in life as well as perhaps the fact she was indeed Pocahontas’s cousin. Wouldn’t that be interesting to have her be of American Indian heritage so he could justify taking more of her peoples land as his own. Your history stories are very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, isn't it interesting how that land thing worked? As for the identity of his wife, gallons of ink has been spilled on the topic, but I think the Pocahontas cousin thing is disproven, and the Native American scholars do not accept the theory - I think the proposed identity was Rachael, niece of Powhattan, and one of the young women taken to England with Pocahontas, and allegedly impregnated there by Croshaw. It is a compelling story, but modern scholars are entirely discounting it. A couple of alternate English identities have also been proposed, but the fact is there is just no evidence. She'll have to live on in the genes of her descendants, if not in name.