Virginia Dare
Meets Pocahontas
Pocahontas and Virginia Dare
As the nation celebrates the 400th anniversary of
the Jamestown colony in Virginia, home of the
Pocahontas legend, it’s interesting to note some of
the uncanny similarities and crucial differences
between Pocahontas and Virginia Dare.
?Virginia
Dare was born of English parents on August 18,1587,
on Roanoke Island on what was then called Virginia
and is now North Carolina. Her people meant to
settle in Chesipiuk, on the Chesapeake Bay.
?Pocahontas
was born of Native parents around 1595, in the
tidewater area of what is now the state of Virginia,
close to the Chesapeake Bay.
?
Virginia Dare’s grandfather, John White, was leader
of his people, as governor of the Roanoke Colony.
?
Pocahontas’s father, Powhatan, was the leader of his
people, and of the entire Powhatan confederacy.
?
Dare was baptized “Virginia,” named for the Virgin
Queen of England.
?Pocahontas
was christened “Rebecca” by English colonists.
?Virginia
Dare’s grandfather was John White, the explorer,
painter, and map-maker
?Pocahontas’s
first English friend was John Smith, explorer and
map-maker.
?
Pocahontas married an Englishman and adopted English
ways, and moved to England.
?In
legend, Virginia Dare became a Native American
princess, fell in love with a Native American, and
spent her entire life in the New World.
?
Recent archeology at the Jamestown site has
uncovered new English graves.
?
Recent archeology at the Indian Croatoan village in
North Carolina has uncovered an English signet ring.
?
Pocahontas spent 7 months in England, became ill,
and was buried at Gravesend at age 22.
?Virginia
Dare never went to England, and her gravesite is
unknown.
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For more about Pocahontas and Virginia Dare, contact
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