Description
Several Powhatan children were brought back to London and housed with affiliates and members of the Virginia Company. Such was the case of this young boy, who was placed in the home of George Thorpe. Little is known about the boy’s time there, although he appears to have served as an amanuensis for Thorpe, who renamed the boy after himself. Georgius died seventeen days after his baptism on 10 September, and his burial was recorded with the phrase “Homo Virginiae” in the parish register.
Bibliographic sources
Alden T. Vaughan, Transatlantic Encounters, 55.