The file of the _Richmond Dispatch_ for 1877 contains various contributions on the early governors of the colony of Virginia by E. D. Neill, William Wirt Henry, and R. A. Brock, in which the claims of Smith’s narrative to consideration are discussed. Charles Dudley Warner, in _A Study of the Life and Writings of John Smith_, 1881, treats the subject humorously and with sceptical levity. Smith finds his latest champion, a second time, in William Wirt Henry, in an address, _The Early Settlement at Jamestown, with Particular Reference to the late Attacks upon Captain John Smith, Pocahontas, and John Rolfe_, delivered before the annual meeting of the Virginia Historical Society, held Feb. 24, 1882, and published with the _Proceedings_ of the Society. Mr. Deane’s views are, however, supported by Henry Adams (_North American Review_, January, 1867, and _Chapter of Erie, and other Essays_, p. 192) and by Henry Cabot Lodge (_English Colonies in America_, p. 6). Mr. Bancroft allowed for a while the original story to stand, with a bare reference to Mr. Deane’s note (_History of the United States_, 1864, i. 132); but in his Centenary Edition (1879, vol. i. p. 102) he abandoned the former assertion, without expressing judgment. The most recent recitals of the story of Pocahontas under the color of these later investigations have been by Gay, in the _Popular History of the United States_, i. 283, and by Charles D. Warner in his _Captain John Smith_, before named,—the latter carefully going over all the evidence. Alexander Brown has contributed several articles, published in the _Richmond Dispatch_ in April and May, 1882, in which he controverts the views of Mr. Henry, not only as to the truth of the story of the rescue, but as to the general veracity of Smith as a historian, taking a more absolute position in this respect than any previous writer has done. Pocahontas is thought to have died at Gravesend just as she was about re-embarking for America, March 21, 1617; and the entry on the records of St. George’s Church in that place—which speaks of a “lady Virginia born,” and has been supposed to refer to her—puts her burial March 21. 1617.[313] For the tracing of Pocahontas’s descendants through the Bollings,—Robert Bolling having married Jane Rolfe, the daughter of Thomas Rolfe, the son of Powhatan’s daughter,—see _The Descendants of Pocahontas_, by Wyndham Robertson, 1855, and Wynne’s Historical Documents, vol. iv., entitled _A Memoir of a Portion of the Bolling Family_, Richmond, 1868 (fifty copies printed), which contains photographs of portraits of the Bollings.[314]