Identifier: popularhistoryof00brya (find matches)
Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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llow. The offer could only have beenmade to get possession of the girl; wife she could not be, as there wasalready a Lady Dale in England. The king may have seen throughthe design ; at any rate he good-naturedly declined the proposed honorof surrendering his daughter to be the mistress of even a whitegovernor. 1 Harmors True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia. ^ Pocahontas was also a widow if Stracheys statement was correct that she had marrieda private captain called Kocoum. 304 FIRST ENGLISH SETTLEMENT IN AMERICA. (Chap. XI. Dale took Rolfe and his wife to England, and with them went sev-eral other young Indians, men and women, and one Tamocomo, thehusband of another of Powhatans daughters. The young people wereunder the guardianship of the Council, and to be educated as Chris-tians; but Tamocomo was an emissary of his father-in-law, under or-ders to gather information in regard to the English people. His ob-servations may have been valuable, but he soon gave over an attempt
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Presentation of Pocahontas at Court. to take a census of the population by notches on a stick. The wholePocahontas P^^^ty excited the liveliest curiosity. The Lady Rebecca wasin England, reccivcd at court with great favor, though grave doubts wereentertained, suggested it was supposed by James, who was never un-mindful of the divine right of kings, whether Rolfe had not been guiltyof treason in presuming to make an alliance with a royal family. Theprincess appeared at the theatres and other public places, everywhereattracting great attraction as the daughter of the Virginian emperor,and as one to whom the colonists had sometimes been indebted for 1619.) SANDYS AND YEARDLEY. 305 signal services; and everywhere exciting admiration for her personalgraces, and the propriety and good sense with which she always con-ducted herself. She remained in England for nearly a year, and diedas she was about to sail for her native country. Her only child, ason, is claimed as the ancestor of some of t

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