1805

Davis, John. The First Settlers of Virginia, An Historical Novel. New York, 1805. Also contains the 1803 poem "Sonnet to Pocahontas" ["Where from the shore, I oft have view'd the sail"]: 172. In this fourth work on Pocahontas, by far the longest, Davis continues to flesh in the whole Pocahontas story from Travels to Captain with more details, like, for instance, adding in the abduction portion of her story. (Kribbs 1975 references a flap over Davis's plagiarism in this book that was started by a reviewer in the Monthly Anthology and Boston Review March 1806.)
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