Wahunsonacock Powhatan, Chief of the Powhatan - List of children

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7/24/2017 at 9:32 PM

Geni lists 17 children of Powhatan.

Only 4 are proved.

Jeanie Roberts cites Helen Rountree (re-paragraphed for better comprehension):

"Only three other children have been identified as the offspring of Powhatan. Matachanna, a daughter, who in 1616 was married to the priest Uttamatomakkin. She may have traveled with Pocahontas, John Rolfe and Uttamatomakkin to England, but there is no record of her doing so.

"Pocahontas also had a brother named Nataquoud. [15] Nataquoud was present at the aborted execution of John Smith. Smith wrote about him later saying he was the most manliest, comeliest and boldest spirit he has seen in a "savage". [16]

"Helen Rountree also says that there was another daughter whose marriage was recorded, but whose name was not. At the age of eleven she married an important tribal leader, three days journey away.

"That leaves us with Cleopatra."

http://www.jeaniesgenealogy.com/2015/11/cleopatra-shawano-powhatan-...

Jeanie Roberts also provides a list of Powhatan's wives taken from Strachey (1610-11) that is more complete than we have on Geni.

Sounds like a good project for someone with an interest in this family.

7/25/2017 at 12:57 AM

Are you looking at me? I work in service to the geni users, so when they call, I will answer. My own tree is Cherokee.

7/25/2017 at 5:53 AM

I am looking at a different language here.
There is a chance that Wahunsobacock Powhatan had more than one wife to have many chilfren. This is not unusual to have many. No birth control at that time.
I am a descendent of Pocahontas sister. In English they called her Cleopatra. (Metachanna). The Powhatans married into my Cherokee lineage. Dragging Canoe and Red Bird....who was Aaron Brock.
This is an ongoing research. Want to make sure of correct names. And dates of birth.

7/25/2017 at 7:48 AM

Erica, I'm not looking at you. What an astounding idea. As one of the curators who work in Virginia you might be interested, but nothing requires it. We all work in service of the WFT.

7/25/2017 at 9:47 AM

re: There is a chance that Wahunsobacock Powhatan had more than one wife to have many chilfren.

More than a chance - it was so documented by the English who met him. "He had 100 wives, 20 sons, 10 daughters." (Possibly an exaggeration)

We have the names of some of them, that's what has been posted as references on this discussion. There's another reference from Lyon Gardiner Tyler I found last night, and using that as well to fill in some of the underdocumented family profiles. There is also a project dedicated to Powhatan and his family.

7/25/2017 at 9:50 AM

What I'm trying to get across is this is a much larger project (cleaning up the Geni tree around Pocahantas) than I can commit to doing by myself, and I would hate to raise that kind of expectation.

7/25/2017 at 10:02 AM

Geni Project: 

https://www.geni.com/projects/The-Powhatan-Tribe-Chief-Powhatan-and...

Request to join as collaborator, if interested 

https://books.google.com/books?id=4R4SAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA12&ots...

page 12 of The Cradle of the Republic: Jamestown and James River By Lyon Gardiner Tyler

From this I learned more about wife of Pipsico 2nd husband Pepsicumah "Pipisco", weroance of Quiyoughcohanock and also about a wife and son of Powhatan.

So that was yesterday's find.

7/25/2017 at 10:48 AM

Good enough. I"m doing one thing and one thing only. I"m contributing a bit here and there to the ongoing process of cleanup. As I work on Trader Hughes to distance him from my my line, I come across stuff. I share it. Someone who specializes in this area might someday do something with it, but I'm not getting invested in that cleanup. My interest and skills lie elsewhere.

7/25/2017 at 12:18 PM

Yes, it was clear you were tackling the Trader Hughes profile, and very glad you did. As far as I know I have no relationship with the line. My sketchy Virginia antecedents are from different parts of Virginia.

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7/25/2017 at 3:09 PM

Wahunsonacock, paramount chief of the Powhatan is your 13th great grandfather.
You
  → Winton
your father → Frances Inez Winton
his mother → Lurlia-(Lurlie) Angeline Reed
her mother → Thomas Indiamon Prater
her father → Elizabeth Louisa Prater
his mother → Edmond Silas Elkins
her father → Gabriel Elkins, I
his father → Nathaniel Elkins
his father → Ralph Elkins, I
his father → Mary Elkins
his mother → Christian Waugh
her mother → Christian Waddington / Martin
her mother → Ka Okee "Jane" Pettus
her mother → Pocahontas
her mother → Wahunsonacock, paramount chief of the Powhatan
her father

7/31/2017 at 8:03 PM

Opechancanough "Mangopeesomon" Wyanoak, paramount chief of the Powhatan is David Thomas Holland's 9th great grandfather!
David Thomas Holland
You → Harry Thomas Holland
your father → Posey Lester Holland
his father → Wright Holland
his father → Elizabeth B. Holland
his mother → Henry Silas Smith
her father → Frances Burke Smith
his mother → Richard Burke
her father → Elizabeth Burke
his mother → Mary Elizabeth Davis
her mother → Nicketti Hughes
her mother → Opechancanough "Mangopeesomon" Wyanoak, paramount chief of the Powhatan
her father--------This is what I have come up with but just getting started in this still hunting

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