Im going to try to get deyos lies and pseudo history removed from viriginias official site
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Im going to try to get deyos lies and pseudo history removed from viriginias official site
https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/278745/...collab-profile
"The Pocahontas story can be very inflammatory. The story of her supposed Indian child even more so, so buyer beware. There is no documentary evidence to support an Indian child. There are two competing histories as follows:
1. Dan Custalow of the Mattaponi Tribe wrote that according to 'sacred oral history' Pocahontas had a son with her first husband Kocoum. He was called Little Kocoum. He was taken in by his Aunts and raised to adulthood.
2. Bill Deyo of the Patawomeck Tribe writes that Pocahontas has a daughter named Ka Okee. She married a Pettus and had descendants.
Now, which one is right? Where does sacred oral history fit into a genealogy profile. If you believe that it carries the same weight as contemporary evidence that you must also acknowledge that Pocahontas was raped by multiple white men and only after she gave birth to a son did she marry John Rolfe. According to Mattiponi sacred history Thomas Rolfe was not the son of John Rolfe.
If you look at the children of Christian Pettus on wikitree you will see the profiles of some supposed daughters; Keziah Arroyah, etc. none of these profiles make any sense, and yet people swear by them. I have written about them on my family history blog and boy do I get blasted by the believers.
I'm not sure how anyone can improve a profile for a person that no one can even prove existed."
Great Richy, btw you have a very pleasant accent.
It's interesting how only a few generations ago no White American would be caught dead saying they had a Native American ancestor. Now every other person wants a Cherokee in the family tree.
Read Bill Deyo's own story to see what a crackpot he really is. He looked and looked and looked but couldn't find Pocahontas as an ancestor... so he inserted her.
https://home.nps.gov/jame/learn/hist...tides-2009.pdf
That should not be on a government site.
Weird they constantly brag about marrying their own cousinsQuote:
Is it any wonder that
Thomas Pettus’ grandson, Josias Fugate, married his own cousin, Mary Martin, a granddaughter
of John Martin and Chistian Pettus and became the ancestor of the Sullivan family of Stafford?