1843

"Jamestown." [Bradford, VT] Green Mountain Gem; A Monthly Journal of Literature, Science, and the Arts 1.2 (January 21, 1843): 15. Standing on the neglected ruins of Jamestown triggers a meditation on Smith and Pocahontas, "that unsuspecting, sincere, confiding child of the forest . . . who loved Smith with all the natural ardor of maiden's love [and] for his sake, loved the colony." It is shameful "to think of the deception played on this artless child of the woods, by designing men, for political and interested purposes." "She was led to believe that Smith was dead, or he had forgtten her, until after she was Mrs. Ralph. She was greatly affected, as all lovers are in such cases, on seeing him for the first time after her nuptials. Shame shame on such conduct!"