Cleopatra
[uncertain]
Powhatan
Born about in Orapaks, Virginia
Ancestors 
Daughter of Wahunsenaca Powhatan
[uncertain]
and [mother unknown]
Sister of
Nantaquod Powhatan, Matachanna Powhatan, Parahunt Powhatan, Tatahcoope Powhatan [half], Amonute Matoaka (Powhatan) Rolfe and Pochins Powhatan
[spouse(s) unknown]
Died after
after about age 50
in Henrico, Virginia [uncertain]
[uncertain]
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Biography
"Cleopatra" was probably born about 1599-1602 in Tsenacommacah, the home of paramount chief Powhatan, in what is now southeastern Virginia.[1] Based on a 1641 petition from Thomas Rolfe to the General Court (the governing body) in Virginia (from a later copy made before 1691, original now lost) seeking permission to visit his mother's sister, Cleopatra, [2] this would make her daughter of either Wahunsenacawh Powhatan or of one of his many wives. [3]
- A previous version of this profile claimed she was daughter of Wahunsenacawh through his favorite wife, Winganuske, but "Cleopatra" was already an adult when Winganuske became a wife of Powhatan. The chief had a practice of returning a wife to her family once she had born him a child. The name of Cleopatra's mother is not known.
No one knows what her actual name was, Cleopatra is either a name given to her by the English or the copyist's attempt to read the original handwriting and getting it wrong. Helen Rountree and others suggest she may have been the same woman as Mattachanna, a known aunt of Pocahontas who may have accompanied her to London.[4]
In 2009, Don Greene introduced the claim that Cleopatra m. Opechancanough who was her father's adopted brother and therefore her adopted uncle.[5]
There is no documented marriage, no documented name of a husband. There are no documented children. There is no documentation that would indicate who either of her parents was. Her date and place of death are unknown.
- Therefore she has been detached from Opechancanough Powhatan.
- She has also been detached as spouse of Nectowance Powhatan
- And she has been detached as mother of Nicketti.
The "genealogy" of Pocahontas's sister will always be in dispute as the direct, first-hand sources for her and the family are non-existent. Most of the sources are repetitions of the one known 1641 petition described above.
Sources
- ↑ Tsenacommacah (Wikipedia)
- ↑ Transcript of "An Old Book marked "E" Virginia, -92, Charters of the Virginia Company of London; Laws; Abstracts of Rolls in the Offices of State. -92, 1606. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, link
- ↑ Rountree, Helen. Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown. University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2005. Ch. 3
- ↑ Rountree, Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough, Ch. 14
- ↑ Don Greene, Shawnee Heritage, Lulu.com (2009), page #? quote?
See also:
- Maryland Magazine of History, v. 27, 131 and Shelby Family File, Frederick County, MD. Historical Society."
- Patricia Givens Johnson, Irish Burks of Colonial Virginia and New River, page 19
- http://books.upress.virginia.edu/detail%2Fbooks%2Fgroup-2284.xml?q=author%3A%22Rountr
- Wikitree's Descendants of Pocahontas Project
- http://mv.ancestry.com/viewer/3f9def73-d9d5-4914-87e3-c948436cd401/78289145/40381921531
- Re: RUSSELL-FREEMAN-GARRETT-FIELDS 1804 EDGEFIELD SC (genforum), 12 Feb 2013.
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History and Present State of Virginia by Robert Beverely, available online various sites, does not mention Cleopatra at all, page 50-51 references Opechancanough only. no wife or children are mentioned.
Chief Wahunsonacock Powhatan Some Shawnee Descendants By JD Weeeks
OUR INDIAN ANCESTRY DAVIS HESS BURKS CAMPBELL DUNLAP AND ASSOCIATED LINES BY LILLIAN JOHNSON GARDINER & MARION KNOWLES ALBRIGHT.
Maryland Historical Society Documents Jamestown Records 1630-1641
Colonial Virginia by William Cridlin Secretary of Virginia Historical Pageant Assoc. 1923 p. 123
The History of Virginia by Robert Beverly - London 1722 2nd Edition p. 50-51.
And FamilySearch.org records to verify of People, Marriages, and Census Records.
What Proof is needed to complete this Family Tree? Are all the Historical Records False? Are All the Descendants wrong?
Chief Powhatan was called Emperor by White men, and he declared himself equal to the English King, therefore stated I am a King too. This is likely where the titles King & Princess originated.
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