Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1917 — PRINCESSES OF THE BLOOD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PRINCESSES OF THE BLOOD

Not so long ago the ancestors of these two real American women were •lords of great sections of New England that the white man wrested from them. They are the Indian pri n cesses, Wooutoonekanuske and Teeweelema, otherwise known as Charlotte and Melinda Mitchell, and are direct descendants of the great Indian chief, Massasoit. Just now the two ladies are more or less in the public eye for belated appreciation of the goodness ot‘ the ancient chieftain to the Plymouth settlers Is being considered in the legislature th rough a bill .to pension these, the last of his descendants. The princesses are now living near Middleboro, Mass. They are respectively seventy-one and eighty-ode years .old.