Note 143 — Chapter IX
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In the famous picture of the baptism of Pocahontas, in the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington, Whitaker, as an Episcopal clergyman, is depicted as clothed in a surplice. A letter of Whitaker's, of June, 1614, tells us that no surplices were used in Virginia; see Purchas His Pilgrimes, iv. 1771. Surplices began to be used there about 1724 (see Hugh Jones, Present State of Virginia, 1724, p. 69), and did not come into general use till the nineteenth century (Latané, Early Relations, etc. p. 64).