The Pocahontas' kindness to the settlers became legendary, and songs and stories were written about her
CREDIT: "Pocahontas." H. De Marsan, Publisher. "The daughter of the Indian Chief Powhattan who was mov'd, by her eloquent importunities, to save the life of Captain Smith, his prisoner and doomed, by a Council of war, to a cruel death." America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets, Library of Congress.
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