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Pocahontas

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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The daughter of an Indian chief in Virginia, who favoured the English settlers there, saving the life of Captain Smith the coloniser, and afterwards married John Rolfe, one of the settlers; came to England, and was presented at Court; several Virginian families trace their descent to her.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Pocahontas'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​p/pocahontas.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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