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    ----- Pocahontas

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    • 9th Great-grandmother of Richard Byrd — 12th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 3269 
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    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1595 
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    • Death Date:
    • Mar 1617 
    • Death Location:
    • Gravesend, Kent, England 
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    • Burial Location:
    • St. George's Church, Gravesend, Kent, England 
    • Marriage Date:
    • 5 Apr 1614 
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    • Pocahontas was born Matoaka and later became Rebecca Rolfe after she converted to Christianity and married John Rolfe. She was the daughter of Chief Powhatan and is famous for saving the life of Capt. John Smith of Jamestown.

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  • Sources for ----- Pocahontas

    • 1 Lee, Edmund Jennings, Lee of Virginia, 1642-1892: Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of the Descendants of Colonel Richard Lee . . ., Philadelphia: (1895), 506.
    • 2 Robertson, Wyndham and R. A. Brock, Pocahontas, alias Matoaka, and Her Descendants Through Her Marriage at Jamestown, Virginia, in April, 1614 . . ., Richmond, Virginia: J. W. Randolph and English (1887), 1-23.