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Mary and Elizabeth (Indigenous names unknown)

Description

A member of the delegation that most famously included Pocahontas, Mary was a Christian convert who at first lived in Cheapside with a mercer who was likely associated with the Virginia Company. A second convert, Elizabeth, also remained in London. Mary’s health suffered in the filthy environment of London, and she was soon placed in the care of the influential minister William Gough, who preached at St Ann’s. There, Gough and others raised money for the costs of treating and lodging Mary. In 1621, the Virginia Company decided to send Mary and Elizabeth to Bermuda. There, Elizabeth married an Englishman and became a colonist; Mary died en route. As for St Ann Blackfriars, it was destroyed in the Great Fire and never rebuilt.

Bibliographic sources

Thrush, Indigenous London, 48, 57; Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Pocahontas and the English Boys, 139-40.