[249] [This statement is disputed by some.—Ed.]
[250] See Hening’s Statutes, i. 98; Stith, 126, and Appendix no. 3.
[251] It has been assumed in America that the descendants in Virginia of Pocahontas were limited to those springing from the marriage of Robert Bolling with Jane, the daughter of Thomas Rolfe; but it appears that the last left a son, Anthony, in England, whose daughter, Hannah, married Sir Thomas Leigh, of County Kent, and that their descendants of that and of the additional highly respectable names of Bennet and Spencer are quite numerous. See Deduction in the Richmond Standard, Jan. 21, 1882.
[252] 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.
[253] Stith, p. 146.
[254] Smith, Generall Historie, ed. 1627, p. 126.
[255] One of these indentures from the original, dated July 1, 1628, was published by the writer in the Richmond Standard of Nov. 16, 1878.
[256] The engraver was William Hole, engraver of Smith’s map of Virginia. The arms adopted were an escutcheon quartered with the arms of England and France, Scotland and Ireland, crested by a maiden queen with flowing hair and an eastern crown. Supporters: Two men in armor having open helmets ornamented with three ostrich feathers, each holding a lance. Motto: En dat Virginia quintum,—a complimentary acknowledgment of Virginia as the fifth kingdom. After the union of England and Scotland in 1707, the motto, to correspond with the altered number of kingdoms, was En dat Virginia quartam, the adjective agreeing with coronam understood, and it appeared on the titlepage of all legislative publications of the colony until the Revolution. Neill’s London Company, pp. 155-56.
[257] This was not the only material effort made. In 1621, under the zealous efforts of the Rev. Patrick Copland (the chaplain of an East India ship), funds were collected for the establishment of a free school in Charles City County, to be called the East India School. For its maintenance one thousand acres of land, with five servants and an overseer, were allotted by the Company.
The advantage of private education, in the families at least of the more provident of the planters, was increasingly secured by the employment as tutors of poor young men of education, who came over from time to time, and by indenture served long enough to pay the cost of their transportation. Later in the seventeenth century, all whose means enabled them to do so educated their sons in England,—a custom which largely continued during the following century, though William and Mary College had been established in 1692.