One person told me she was 100% sure she was descended from Pocahontas because she was in almost daily contact with her spirit, who had related many previously unknown and unpublished stories of her life in great detail. Usually it's the same one I heard, but not always. Many people have heard the story in their families for years just like it was with me. Why do you think you are descended from Pocahontas? That's the first question I ask. Here are the questions I ask people when they call or email me about how to determine if they are descended from Pocahontas like me. They had a daughter, Christian Pettus and she was my 7th great grandmother. Ka-Okee was regarded as Native American royalty and she married the high-born Englishman, Thomas Pettus. They had a daughter, Ka-Okee, who was left behind to be raised by the tribe. Previous to her marriage to Rolfe, Pocahontas had been married (very, very young) to Kocoum, a Patawomeck chief (the English called him a 'private captaine') who was killed by the Jamestown settlers when they captured Pocahontas in 1613. There are many stories about Pocahontas, many of the popular stories that everyone assumes are true are not.

Some people claim she was killed or poisoned. They had just sailed away and were leaving the Thames estuary when she became very sick and the ship pulled to shore where she died.

Pocahontas was only 27 when she died in the arms of her husband as she was leaving Britain to return to Virginia. Some Virginia families claim descent from Pocahontas and her husband, John Rolfe in fact the majority of the descendants of Pocahontas in the USA are through their son, Thomas Rolfe. Since then I have received maybe close to 100 emails and phone calls from people asking how they can find out of they are related to her as well. Stories of people who have asked me this question and what I tell themĪ while back I wrote a blog, 'My Sullivan Family Ancestry and Pocahontas' about my descent from Pocahontas, who was my 9th great grandmother.

Pocahontas descendants