Stupid Pilot Tricks - Insurance Co. Trying to Back Out

On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 05:20:37 -0400, Cub Driver
wrote:

I am reasonably sure that the Pilgrims were Puritans, but it wasn't a
necessary condition. It does not seem that Miles Standish, for
example, was very pure. Didn't he dally with Pocahontas? Or was that
John Alden? Or Priscilla? I forget.

Wrong area of the country. See below.

Matoaka was the beautiful and lively daughter of Powhatan, ruler of
the land that the English named Virginia. "Pocahontas" was her
childhood nickname, translated as "little wanton," meaning she was
playful and hard to control. Pocahontas saved the struggling Jamestown
colony from extinction twice. The first time (Dec. 29, 1607) is the
famous story that is retold in the Disney movie, Pocahontas, wherein
she saves the life of John Smith from execution by Powhatan, her
father. Powhatan proclaimed that Smith's life was to be spared, so
that he could make toys for Pocahontas. Whether that part of the story
is true or not, Powhatan apparently initiated Captain Smith into the
tribe as a subchief, feasted him, and returned him to the colony. When
Smith returned, he discovered that the colony had run out of food.
Pocahontas kept the colonists from starving to death that first
Winter, by visiting regularly with plenty of food.

Six years later, she saved the colony again (Apr. 24?, 1614) by
marrying colonist John Rolfe. A squad from Jamestown had kidnapped
Pocahontas, intending to trade her for concessions from Powhatan.
Powhatan only met enough of their demands to keep negotiations open.
During her captivity, leading colonists worked to convert her to
Christianity. One of those colonists, John Rolfe, fell in love with
her, and she with him. Pocahontas married John Rolfe, accepted
Christianity, and was baptized Rebecca. This marriage created several
years of peace between the Jamestown colonists and Powhatan's tribes.

Pocahontas' life ended on a high note, with a triumphal tour of
England (Starting June 3, 1616) as a visiting princess. This part of
her life is covered in Disney's Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World.
As she started home, English disease took her life. She was buried in
the church at Gravesend, England (Mar. 17, 1617) age 21 or 22. (Her
exact birth date is uncertain: roughly 1595.)

It would not be the first time American Indians proved susceptible to
English desease.

Corky Scott

PS, the above history brief was written by a man who claims to be a
descendent of Pocahontas.