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POCAHONTAS.
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1907
1607-JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION-1907
OFFICIAL SOUVENIR
No. 12. POCAHONTAS. An idealized portrait made
at the time she was in England. Virginia cannot too
much honor the memory of this lovely young woman,
since to her more than once Virginia owed its existence.
And so long as history records deeds dared and hardships
endured by the first settlers of Jamestown, so long will
Pocahontas be remembered as the guardian angel of the
colony. Pocahontas, favorite daughter of the King,
Powhatan, was born in 1587, christianized and baptized
in 16:2, and married in 1613. She died in 1616, and was
buried in Gravesend, England, in the chancel of St.
George's Church, leaving one child, Thomas Rolfe, from
whom many of the most distinguished families of Virginia
have descended She was variously styled "the little
snow feather of Powhata," the "Nonparella of Virginia,'
the "king's dearest daughter," etc. etc., and bore three
names, "Pocahontas" meaning bright stream between
two hills. "Amonate" and "Matoax," meaning "snow
feather." The last, her real name, was rarely uttered on
account of the Indian superstition that knowledge of the
real name gave their enemies power to cast spells upon
them. (See cards Nos. 5, 6, 9, 10, 11 and 13.)
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