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Show Page 258 While Margaret Davidson is a fictional person, another skeleton-a woman's-was found showing evidence of having survived a scalping, only to crawl into a trash pit for safety and die there of exposure. The Pierces, John Pory, Governors Yeardley and Wyatt, Samual Maycock, John Rolfe, Edward Sharpless, Richard Frethorne and many others named were real people who lived in Virginia during the time the story occurred. William Harwood was, indeed, the leader of Martin's Hundred; John Jackson and John Boys its first burgesses. The Indian, Chanco, is credited with having saved Jamestown from the uprising, and Camohan did play a part in the killings at Martin's Hundred and was later executed for his deeds. Mistress Boyse was held a prisoner by the Indians at Pamunkey and later returned "apparelled like an Indian Queen." Anne Jackson, sister to John Jackson, was held captive by the Indians until around 1628, at which time she returned to England. After the uprising, Martin's Hundred was apparently resettled, but never attained a prominent position in the early days of Virginia, eventually disappearing into the dust of history. |