Family/Spouse: Whipsewasson WAHANGANOCHE. Whipsewasson (son of Great Chief Running Stream Mamanatowick Ensenore Don Luis Velasco OF THE IROQUOIS POWHATAN and Morning Flower (Rachelle) POWHATAN) was born in 1564 in Caroline Co. Virginia; died on 1 Apr 1666 in Murdered Old Rappahannock, Caroline County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary WAHANGANOCHE was born in 1638 in United States; died in in , England.
2. Robert Alexander MEESE was born in 1663 in Scotland; died in 1704 in Virginia, United States.
3. Grace MEESE was born in in Stafford, Stafford, Virginia, United States; died in 1706 in Prince William, Virginia, United States.
4. Mary ARROYAH was born in in Potomac River, Allegany, Maryland, United States; died in 1664 in Colony, Laurel, Kentucky, USA.
5. KEZIAH "MARY" ARROYAH WAHANGANOCHE PETTUS was born in in Potomac River, Allegany, Maryland, United States; died on 14 Feb 1690 in Stafford, Stafford, Virginia, United States.
6. CHRISTIAN MEESE WAHANGANOCHE
7. COCKACOESKIE WAHANGANOCHE, Sibling of Keziah "Mary" died in 1677 in New Kent, New Kent, Virginia, United States.

Notes:

Ka-Okee is traditionally the daughter of Keocum Japasaw and Matoaka whom is known by Americans as Pocahontas. The sources stating this are Wikipedia, The Shawne Heritage Book, V. IV, p. 99-102, The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History, by. Dr. Angela Daniel and Linwood Custalo, The National Park Service, WebNetherlands and Find-A-Grave. The Smithsonian Magazine and recent historians have also been published this Indian's tribe oral history.

Ka-Okee was an young child when her mother, Pocahontas, was taken by the British. She by some traditions had a brother also. She was raised by her mother's oldest sister and her husband. When she married a Col. Thomas Petuss who was of influence and wealthy birth in Europe, their subsequent daughters were greatly desired by the men also from families of stature in England.

Kecoum married Matoaka "Pocahontas" Rebecca, of the Powhatan Tribe in Powhatan Tribal Lands on the Pamunkey River in Virginia Colony, America. Matoaka (daughter of Mamanatowick Wahunsenacawh POWHATAN and Matatishe Winanuske Eagle Plume Nonoma) was born on 17 Sep 1595 in Werowocomoco Village, On Pamunkey River York River, Virginia, US; died on 21 Mar 1617 in Gravesend, Kent, England; was buried in 1617 in Gravesend, Gravesham Borough, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Powhatten oral history gives us a much different understanding of Matoaka "Pocahontas" 's sad life. Here is a summary of it at https://www.americanindianmagazine.org/story/pocahontas-first-marriage-powhatan-side-story"Virginia institutions are preparing to celebrate the 400th anniversary (2014) of the Pocahontas

Her story from her tribes point of view, is very different than the Disney version of her life. Both accounts agree that she did help save the fledgling Jamestown in their first year of survival. She was repaid by being kidnaped by the British, only to be converted to Christianity, taken to England to drum up monetary support for the Jamestown Colony, married to John Rolfe, died and buried in England at the mere age of 21. The English ignored the fact that she had a marriage to an Indian husband by whom she had 2 small children at the time of her entrapment by them. Her daughter, Ka-Ochee, was our direct ancestor. This information in part, is by a teenaged European boy who was traded by the English so that he could learn the Powhattan language. He ran away from the village after six months to Pocahantas' sister and her husband where he was put in charge of "babysitting" little Ka-Ochee after her mother, Pocahontas' imprisonment on the English ship.

Matoaka, as was her birth name, also had a son Thomas Rolfe, whom many trace through. It is not known if Thomas Rolfe was the son of John Rolfe or another gentry on the ship whom molested her.

I am very proud to be her descendant and so feel for her.

Notes:

"FIRST RECORDED ENCOUNTER WITH THE ENGLISH
December 1607
Werowocomoco, Tsenacommacah, Pre-British Colonial Virginia, North America
Opechancanough captured John Smith and brought him to the capital city of Werowocomoco where Smith was introduced to 'Powhatan' for the 1st time." "PARAMOUNT CHIEF OF POWHATAN CONFEDERACY
before 1607 to 1618
'Powhatan' had been Head Chief of the Powhatan Tribes for many years before the arrival of the English in Virginia and remained so until his death in 1618." FamilySearch.org

Mamanatowick married Matatishe Winanuske Eagle Plume Nonoma in 1604 in Virginia, United States. Matatishe (daughter of Poechancanough Winanuske POWHATAN and Dashing STREAM) was born on 3 Jun 1570 in Confluence Dam Staunton Rivers, Pre, Virginia, United States; died in Apr 1618 in Werowocomoco, Orapax It, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]