Matthew Branch is a descendant of Pocahontas. Here is the trail.
Biography
From Family Visitor, Volume 2, Number 31, 1 November 1823, a brief obituary: "DIED... In Powhatan Co. Mr. Matthew Branch, 58", making his birth year 1765. [1]
↑ Ancestry.com. Geneanet Community Trees Index [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2022. Original data: Geneanet Community Trees Index. Paris, France: Geneanet. https://gw.geneanet.org/bmmills?n=branch&oc=&p=matthew
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1820 U S Census; Census Place: New Canton, Buckingham, Virginia; Page: 128; NARA Roll: M33_132; Image: 105. Source Information Ancestry.com. 1820 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Fourth Census of the United States, 1820. (NARA microfilm publication M33, 142 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1059598:7734?ssrc=pt&tid=169656124&pid=102290738153
Court records of Chesterfield County, Virginia [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Original data: Thompson, Stella Pocahontas Anthony,. Court records of Chesterfield County, Virginia : pertaining to the Franklin, Brintle, Bridgewater, Nunnally and related families. Columbia, Mo.: S.P.A. Thompson, 1990. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/12:19654?ssrc=pt&tid=169656124&pid=102290738153
Virginia, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607-1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. Original data: Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp.. Virginia Census, 1607-1890. Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/32717396:3578?ssrc=pt&tid=169656124&pid=102290738153
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