Amonute Matoaka "Pocahontas" Rebecca, of The Powhatan

1598 - 1617  (21 years)

• Name	Amonute Matoaka "Pocahontas" Rebecca   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Suffix	of The Powhatan
  Birth	Between 17 Sep 1595 and 1598	Werowocomoco Village, On Pamunkey River York River, Virginia, US   [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Female
  Nickname	Pocahontas  [3]
  Name	Pocahontas  [3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
  Burial	1617	Gravesend, Gravesham Borough, Kent, England   [3, 6, 11, 12]
  Death	21 Mar 1617	Gravesend, Kent, England   [2, 3, 4, 5]
  	She fell deathly ill just after embarking to return to Virginia. She told her sister who was taken with her to England that she had been poisoned. She died the same day. (The True Story of Pocahontas)
  Person ID	I14274	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Father	Cheif Wahunsenacawh-Wahunsenacah, Leader of The Powhatan,   b. 17 Jun 1545, New River, Pulaski, Virginia, USA d. 13 Apr 1618, Tsenacomoca on the Pamunkey River, Orapax Village, New Kent, King Williams County, Virginia, USA (Age 72 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Nonoma Matatishe Winanuske Eagle Plume Nonoma,   b. 3 Jun 1570, Confluence Dam Staunton Rivers, Pre, Virginia, United States d. Apr 1618, Werowocomoco, Orapax It, Virginia, USA (Age 47 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1604	Virginia, United States
  Family ID	F2780	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Kecoum Captaye Loppassus Japasaw Powtahan,   b. 1590, Werowocomoco, Orapax, Virginia, United States d. 1618, Virginia Colony (Age 28 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1609
  Married	Powhatan Tribal Lands on the Pamunkey River in Virginia Colony, America   [3]
  Children	1. 'Little' Kocoum, (Actual name unknown),   b. 1611  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Kaokee Ka Okee 'Jane' Tahacope-Powhatan Stream *,   b. Bef 1612, Potomac River, Allegany, Maryland, United States d. 1670 or 1704, James City County, Virginia, United States of America (Age > 92 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F2786	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Family 2	John Thomas Rolfe, Jr,   b. 6 May 1585, Heacham Hall, Norfolk, England d. 20 Mar 1622, Jamestown, James City County, Virginia, United States of America (Age 36 years)
  Marriage	5 Apr 1614	Jamestown, Virginia, American Colonies   [3, 6, 10]
  Children	1. Thomas Rolfe, (Left in "Uncle" Henry Rolfe's care in England when his mother Pocahontas died),   b. Bef Apr 1614, What is now called Smiths Plantation, Virginia d. 16 Apr 1680, Virginia Colony (Age > 66 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F4913	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

• Notes

  The Powhattan's 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 was part of an entourage that provided food to help save the fledgling Jamestown in their first year of survival. According to "The True Story of Pocahontas", she was sent by her father to show that the natives came in peace and wished to be friends. 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 Pocahontas' 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, named ... Dale on the ship whom molested her. According to "The True Story of Pocahontas", she had Thomas Rolfe before marrying John Rolfe. This child was not the likely son of John, but was probably the offspring of being raped by Mariner Jeremy Deale. I am very proud to be her descendant and so feel for her.

  
  

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