Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1890 — Where Pocahontas Was Married. [ARTICLE]

Where Pocahontas Was Married.

The ruinous tower, which is now all that remains of the city of Jamestown, .Va., is built upon the site of the church whiph Lord -Delaware found already erected and “kept passing sweete and trimmed with divers flowers” when he arrived in 1620 with succor for the perishing colonists. They had just abandoned the spot so fatal to them and were about to give up the enterprise altogether. They had perished from disease, starvation, and at the hands of the savages. It is related that when “the stock of oyle, vinegar, sack, and aqua vitae was well nigh spent a little sack was kept for the communion table.” At this church the first legislative body assembled. Also in this church the Princess Pocahontas was baptized, and before its altar she stammered forth in her imperfect English the vows that bound her to John Rolfe.