Pocahontas' descendants : a revision, enlargement, and extension of the list as set out by Wyndham Robertson in his book Pocahontas and her descendants (1887)

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Label

Pocahontas' descendants : a revision, enlargement, and extension of the list as set out by Wyndham Robertson in his book Pocahontas and her descendants (1887)

Title remainder

a revision, enlargement, and extension of the list as set out by Wyndham Robertson in his book Pocahontas and her descendants (1887)

Statement of responsibility

by Stuart E. Brown, Jr., Lorraine F. Myers

Title variation

Third corrections and additions to Pocahontas' descendants

Creator

• trueBrown, Stuart E., (Stuart Ellett), 1916-

Contributor

• Myers, Lorraine F.
• Robertson, Wyndham, 1803-1888

Author

• Myers, Lorraine F.
• trueBrown, Stuart E., (Stuart Ellett), 1916-

Subject

• Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Genealogy
• Pocahontas, -1617 -- Family
• Rolfe family
• Bolen family
• Indians of North America -- Genealogy

Genre

• trueGenealogy

Language

eng

Summary

• Thomas Rolfe, the son of John Rolfe and Pocahontas, the legendary Indian princess, was the father of Jane Rolfe and (possibly) Anne Rolfe by different wives. Jane subsequently married a Bolling and Anne, an Elwyn, from which unions issued an enormous progeny, today numbering in the tens of thousands and encompassing numerous lines of the colonial Virginia gentry. Starting with the Bolling lines, which include the "white," "red" and "blue" Bollings, this book carries Pocahontas' descendants down to the present time. In this definitive edition of Pocahontas' Descendants, the two volumes of corrections and additions of 1992 and 1994 have been appended to the base volume of 1985, resulting in a consolidated volume in excess of 700 pages, with indexes containing over 30,000 names! A foundation stone in Virginia genealogy and a major contribution to our knowledge of old Virginia families!
• The Pocahontas Foundation, based upon information furnished to it, has compiled a tentative list of the descendants of Pocahontas, a list set forth in Pocahontas' Descendants . This present volume, the third involving additions and corrections to the existing work, contains more than 120 pages of changes and revisions, with a forty-page index of 6,500 names. The name of the spouse of a Pocahontas descendant is listed even though that spouse is not a descendant of Pocahontas, but the name of a parent of such a spouse is not indexed unless, of course, that parent is a descendant of Pocahontas as well. This new volume is an indispensable adjunct to contemporary Pocahontas scholarship

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DNGS

Dewey number

929/.2/0973

Index

index present

LC call number

CS71.R747

LC item number

1997

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult