Whether or not Pocahontas really saved Smith has no bearing on whether or not they were ever intimate in the time he was in Va. Smith was a soldier and not overly anxious to admit a girl saved him unless it was really just a ritual mock execution. According to Strachey writing in 1616 After Smith left Pocahontas married later an Indian named Kocuum. A Ken wrote on the net 20 years ago, "Are we to believe that when she married John Rolfe she got pregnant right away and in the three years she was supposedly married to Kocuum she had no children?" Great point. Before I answer the rebuttal let me again state my 3 general sources / "The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britania" (1612), by colony secretary Wm. Strachey, "The Generall Historie of Virginia..", by Capt. John Smith (1624), "The Proceedings of the English Colony in Virginia" 1612. Also, "A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Noate as Hath Happened in Virginia" (pub. 1608), by Smth & others. This later source opens "Somewhat more was by him written, which being I thought fit to be private I would not adventure to make it publick." Published by John Tappe in London. I interpret this that Smith did some things not appropriate for the English reading public. Okay, I did not write that Pocahontas sister had a child at age 11--I wrote she was --married--at age 11. The citation is the Smith General History but the sister's name is not given. That Smith was trying to marry Pocahontas comes from Strachey (1612). Did the term "Wanton" have a sexual connotation back then? Answer: Shakespeare ("Lear" 1605), Wanton meant also "especially lascivious, lewd person"(Google). That fits Alogonkian sex culture. Using the term "drama queen". Answer: My readers are 21st Century people, not 17th Century. It was appropriate. Your questions: Pocahontas crying, Smith captured Dec. 1607, Smith spending 2 nights in Werocomoco, how Powhatans cleaned themselves, 9 months later Pocahontas visits the Smith camp with naked women, Powhatan calls Smith "sonne", gives him an Indian name and a territory to control, Pocahontas visiting Jamestown repeatedly to inquire of Smith, Pocahontas angry at Smith for 3 hours in England because he took so long to visit her (even though she was married to Rolfe, what would it matter unless..),----ALL----of this comes from John Smith's General History of Virginia (1624). That Baron Willoughby Peregrine Bertie was a benefactor of John Smith also from the General History of Virginia, example, "At length he succeeded in attending Peregrine Bertie, second son of Lord Willoughby". The source that Capt. Smith in 1608 named Peregrine Mt. and Willoughby River in what became Maryland, that William Smith and son John Smith moved there in 1703, comes from the book (including deed abstracts), "History of Cecil County, Maryland", by George Johnston. You brought up the age numbers question. We think William Smith was an older man when he came to MD in 1703 because he died 7 years later ("Cecil County, Maryland Wills, 1675-1753", by Keddie). William's age is usually estimated at c1650, therefore his father could have been in his early 40's when he had William, or, perhaps, Peregrine Smith born c1608, son William Smith born c1649 (?). There is a Wikitree profile on William, though, not well-developed. Doctor Joseph J. Copeland (also a Quaker) died 1990 in Lakewood, NJ. The best person to consult on his life is Larry Anderson of Pocatello, Idaho, who has been in touch with that family in the past. Due to privacy issues I cannot give out the names of persons and DNA results. Though the DNA was helpful, it of itself does not prove the question. I would like to edit the Peregrine Smith Wikitree profile and add the above souces. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was told that the profile once had him as the uncertain son of Cap. Smith & Pocahontas, but it was removed. Predicated on the citations given here I (and many others) would desire that Peregrine be restored as the "uncertain" son of Cap. John Smith & Matoaka / Pocahontas.
