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Pocahontas

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Pocahontas, John and Thomas

Pocahontas, John and Thomas set sail for Virginia a few short months after her attendance at the 12th Night Mask. It is highly likely that Pocahontas asks to leave England with haste, as they take the last possible boat before the trade winds prevent passage. She may have already been unwell, because her health dramatically deteriorates while on board. Eventually succumbs at an inn in Gravesend Kent, near the east coast of England, with her husband and son at her side. Just one year later, he too passes away. Within two generations, Paramount Chief Powhatan's Confederacy of Tribes no longer exists. This is just the beginning of the European subjug

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