The Huguenot Bartholomew Dupuy and his descendants

186 GENEALOGY WITH BRIEF SKETCHES.
Capt. John^Dupuy, m. Mary ^V. WatJcinSj (p. 181).
Issue— Continued:
tour of lands
Dupuy. in Arkansas; m., Feb., 1833, Paulina Pocahontas
Chap. Il l, in Tennessee, while on a prospecting
Eldridge, of Brunswick County, Va., b. July 18,
1808; d. June 30, 1890, in Harrisonburg, Va., at the
home of her son-in-law. Rev. Lewis B. Johnston;
[She was a gt.-gt.-gt.-gt.-grand-daughter of the
wonderful and famous "Pocahontas". The line of
descent is as follows :— John Rolfe, a twin, educated
at an English University, and a man of reputation,
(Son of John and Dorothea (Mason) Rolfe, b. Oct.
17, 1562; m. Sept. 24, 1582, who had other children
—Eustace (twin), Edward, and Henry, who was a
merchant in London and a member of the Virginia
Company; Son of Eustace and Joanna (Jener)
Rolfe, m. May 27, 1560, descendant of a family, resident
for centuries in the county of Norfolk, England),
married in England, and sailed for Virginia
in May, 1609. The ship in which he came over was
wrecked on the Bermudas, and there a daughter
was born named Bermuda. They reached Virginia
in May, 1610, and Rolfe's wife had either died at
the Bermudas or only lived a short while after
reaching Virginia. About Apr. 1, 1614, he married
secondly, in the old Burton church, Williamsburg,
Va., a few miles from Jamestown, the princess,
Pocahontas, born in 1595, daughter of Powhatan,
the noblest and most powerful of the Indian Chiefs
of North America; She had been lured aboard an
English vessel, in April, 1612, and held as hostage
for the return of several white persons and some
stolen property, and had been baptized in the Protestant
faith, April, 1613, in the Jamestown church,
by the name of Rebecca, but her original name was
Matoax, which the Indians carefully concealed from
the English, and changed to Pocahontas, out of
superstitious fear, lest the knowledge of her true
name might bring her hurt. In 1616, Rolfe and
Pocahontas went to England where their only child,