Note 312 — Chapter V

This iconoclastic view was also sustained by Mr. E. D. Neill in chapter v. of his Virginia Company in London, 1869, which was also printed separately, and in chapter iv. of his English Colonization in America. He goes farther than Mr. Deane, and, following implicitly Strachey’s statement of an earlier marriage for Pocahontas, he impugns other characters than Smith’s, and repeats the imputations in his Virginia and Virginiola, p. 20. There is a paper on the marriage of Pocahontas, by Wyndham Robertson, in the Virginia Historical Reporter, vol. ii. part i. (1860), p. 67. (Cf. Field’s Indian Bibliography, p. 383.) See Neill’s view pushed to an extreme in Hist. Mag. xvii. 144. A writer in the Virginia Hist. Reg. iv. 37, undertook to show that Kokoum and Rolfe were the same. Matthew S. Henry, in a letter dated Philadelphia, Sept. 11, 1857, written to Dr. Wm. P. Palmer, then Corresponding Secretary of the Virginia Historical Society, gives us the Lenni Lenape signification of Kakoom or Kokoum, as “‘to come from somewhere else,’ as we would say, ‘a foreigner.’”