sir thomas dale in charge of the settlement where she was taken, formidable would've been a word to describe him. a strict disciplinarian bringing order and purpose to sometimes unruly settlers, drawn as they were from a range of ranks and conditions. under his governorship, christian worship was central to the life of the community. prayer was compulsory. services were regular. and woe betide anyone who shirked attendance. the minister was the minister alexander whitaker, and priest as ig understand it, and came to be known as the apostle to the indians. someone who took his duties pleading worship, offering support, conducting the officers, engaging with local tribes, teaching the faith and categorizing. the catechism, the instruction to be learned by every child as the prayer book puts it was part of that prayer book. it was revised in 1604 and would have been a useful start for mr. whitaker's conversations and discussions with pocahontas. though not the only resource available to him. there was the bible, the geneva bible, and then the authorized version of 1611. the catechism was a list

will beer to dale written around that time and submitted. birthdate for thomas rolfe? >> i don't know. i never found one. we don't know what side of the atlantic he was born on. you don't see him here until she's heading home. they don't tell us how old he was. i went looking. i re-scoured everything. >> i have a question. find the names of any other women, powhatan women, perhaps, who had been recorded in marriages to other english settlers? >> i've only found two. one in 1638. the other one was an indian indentured servant named sue who in 1689 was impregnated by an andstment -- an englishman they forced her to marry. it became law in virginia that to performgal interracial marriages. probably.aisons, i had a question here and then here. >> [inaudible] since a woman's world was botanically centered, i was rolfe tookhy john credit for introducing tobacco into the cash crop? >> i'm inclined to leave john -- if you take too much of it, it will blow the top of your head off. -- she wouldn't have known the existence without some sort of trail through the english down into

wolfe's the letter to dale will be written around that time and submitted. >> is there a birthdate for thomas rolfe? helen: i don't know. i never found one. i went looking. we don't know what side of the atlantic he was born on. you don't see him here until she's heading home. they don't tell us how old he was. >> not even the christian record? helen: no, i went looking. i re-scoured everything. >> another question. >> did you find the names of any other women, powhatan women, perhaps, who had been recorded in marriages to other english settlers? >> i've only found two. one in 1638. the other one was an indian indentured servant named sue who in 1689 was impregnated by an enlistment -- an englishman and they forced her to marry. it became law in virginia that it was illegal to perform interracial marriages. unions, liaisons, probably. >> i had a question here and then here. [inaudible] since a woman's world was botanically centered, i was wondering why john rolfe took credit for introducing tobacco into the cash crop? helen: i'm inclined to leave john rolfe's claim to really be his. the kind