Note 252 — Chapter V
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The parish register of Gravesend contains this entry, which has been assumed as that of the burial of Pocahontas “1616, March 21, Rebecca Wrothe, wyffe of Thomas Wrothe, Gent. A Virginia Lady borne, was buried in the Chancell.” Its relevancy has recently been questioned by the Rev. Patrick G. Robert, of St. Louis, in the Richmond Daily Despatch of Sept. 10, 1881, and by Mr. J. M. Sinyanki, of London, in the Richmond Standard of Nov. 12, 1881, both of whom claim upon tradition that the interment was in a corner of the churchyard.