Jamestown and the Massachusetts Bay Colony: The History and Legacy of the Settlement of Colonial New England and Virginia by Charles River Editors

Author:Charles River Editors [Editors, Charles River]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Published: 2016-12-15T23:00:00+00:00

The English portrait of Pocahontas depicts her as an Englishwoman

Smith had followed the progress of Pocahontas from savage princess to Christian wife, and he visited her in England. Referring to himself in the third person, Smith described the encounter:

“Sir Thomas Dale made an important voyage back to London in the spring of 1616. His purpose was to seek further financial support for the Virginia Company and, to insure spectacular publicity, he brought with him about a dozen Algonquian Indians, including Pocahontas. Her husband and their young son, Thomas, accompanied her. The arrival of Pocahontas in London was well publicized. She was presented to King James I, the royal family, and the rest of the best of London society. Also in London at this time was Captain John Smith, the old friend she had not seen for eight years and whom she believed was dead. According to Smith at their meeting, she was at first too overcome with emotion to speak. After composing herself, Pocahontas talked of old times. At one point she addressed him as ‘father,’ and when he objected, she defiantly replied: ‘Were you not afraid to come into my father's Countrie, and caused feare in him and all of his people and feare you here I should call you father: I tell you I will, and you shall call mee childe, and so I will be for ever and ever your Countrieman.’ This was their last meeting.”

This is where the story of Pocahontas and Smith seemingly ends, with Pocahontas seeing him, refusing to speak to him, and then finally speaking to him angrily before making her peace with him. She was dead within a month, falling ill as she and Rolfe boarded a ship to head back to Virginia. It’s unclear what killed her, but Rolfe claimed her last words were "all must die, but tis enough that her child liveth". Pocahontas was reputedly buried under St. George’s Church in Gravesend, England, but the church burned down in the 18th century. It’s unclear where she was buried.

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