Volume 17 , Issue 41

Portrait of Pocahontas

Continue our research into Pocahontas we found in The Weekly Kansa Chief, out of Troy, Kansas, dated 30 September 1875, Thursday, page 1, the following story: "Portraite of Pocahontas."

Found on Newspapers.com

The Richmond Journal said that Dr. James Beale had deposited in the State Library of Virginia a portrait of the Indian Princess Pocahontas, to whom many of the leading Virginia families trace their origin. The paper says this portrait makes Pocahontas a very pretty woman of about 20 years of age, and clothed in the upper-crust toggery prevalent in the nation of her father, King Powhatan. The portrait deposited by Dr. Beale was an exact copy by the elder Sally, made i 1830, of an original portrait of Pocahontas, painted between the years 1616 and 1617, during her visit to England, in company with her husband, John Rolfe. The remains of the original portrait were, in 1843, in possession of Dr. Robinson, in Petersburg. Thomas Rolfe, a son of Pocahontas, was born at Plymouth, England, in 1616, soon after his mother arrived there, and his mother died at Gravesend in 1617. Her son, after his arrival at man's estate, returned to Virginia and married, and died leaving an only child, John Bolling, whose daughter, Jane, married Richard Randolph, of Curles, in the county of Henrico, State of Virginia. Ryland Randolph, son of the latter, procured from England the original portraits of John Rolfe and Pocahontas, and placed them, where they hung for many years, in his mansion at Turkey Island.

Mr. Randolph died in 1784, when both pictures passed into the possession of Thomas Bolling, of Cobbs, in Chesterfield county. These pictures were named in an enumeration of the estate of Mr. Randolph, recorded in Henrico County Court in 1784.
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