Kocoum of the Patawomeke

Ka Okee "Jane" - Controversial origin as child of Pocahontas & Kocoum of the Patawomeke. More proof needed for Geni to connect.

The story is:

KOCOUM was the younger brother of the Patawomeck Chief JAPASAW and in 1610 he married MATOAKA POCAHONTAS POWHATAN, daughter of WAHUNSONACOCK [WAHUNSUNECA]known as CHIEF POWHATAN at the Werowocomoco Village on the Powhatan Tribal Lands on the Pamunkey River in Virginia.

Following their marriage, KOCOUM and POCAHONTAS settled in the Patawomeck Village and had a daughter KA OKEE in 1612. In 1613 POCAHONTAS was lured aboard the English ship of Captain ARGALL and kidnapped, it is believed KOCOUM was killed in the skirmishes that followed. KOCOUM'S brother JAPASAW assisted the English in the kidnapping.

KA OKEE, the daughter of KOCOUM and POCAHONTAS, was in the Patawomeck Village when her mother was kidnapped and her father was killed. She remained and was raised there and her identity was kept secret to protect her from being harmed by the English. She took the name "JANE" and had a child CHRISTIAN PETTUS by a man whose last name was PETTUS in 1636.

According to WILLIAM "Night Owl" DEYO, present day Patawomeck Tribal Historian: "KA OKEE's husband was thought to be Col. THOMAS PETTUS or possibly THEODORE PETTUS, brother of Col. THOMAS PETTUS, or possibly a son of WILLIAM PETTUS [uncle of Col. THOMAS PETTUS] and ELIZABETH ROLFE who married in 1594." He also mentions that there were close connections between the ROLFE and PETTUS families in England." JOHN ROLFE, who married POCAHONTAS in 1614, "took her to his family estate in England when they visited there in 1616. She no doubt met the PETTUS family and may have asked that if any of them went to Virginia to please check on her daughter KA OKEE. One evidently did check on her and married her..." http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=131558962

1610-1611 Pocahontas was married to the Patawomeck warrior, Kocoum. http://patawomeckindiantribeofvirginia.org/ct-menu-item-3

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In 1610, Pocahontas married Kocoum, whom Englishman William Strachey described as a "private captain." Kocoum was not a chief or a councilor, though mention of his being a "private captain" implies he had command over some men. The fact that he was not a chief, and thus not high in status, suggests that Pocahontas may have married for love. Kocoum may have been a member of the Patawomeck tribe.

https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/pocahontas-her-life-a...

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Kocoum was murdered by the Jamestown settlers in 1613 when Pocahontas was kidnapped. Ka-Okee, who was two years old, stayed with the tribe. In 1645, when Ka-Okee was 34 she married Theodore Pettus*, they called her Jane.

• After some exchanges with Mitchell and William Deyo, who is the historian for the Patawomeck tribe, Deyo and I concluded that the evidence more strongly favors *Thomas Pettus, Theodore’s elder brother. The last record of Theodore in Virginia was in 1626, when he testified about a disputed shipment of tobacco in a court case heard at Jamestown. Thomas, on the other hand, patented 1,000 ac. of land on Potomac Creek in 1650. He sold it to Mr. Henry Meese in 1660. Potomac Creek is in Stafford Co.

https://www.pallasweb.com/blog/sullivan-family-ancestry-pocahontas....

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Kocoum married Matoaka Amonute "Pocahontas" "Rebecca" /Unknown/, daughter of Wahansonacock "Wa-Hun-Sen-A-Caw /Unknown/ and Winanuske "Winganucki" /Unknown/, about 1611 in , , Virginia. (Matoaka Amonute "Pocahontas" "Rebecca" /Unknown/ was born in 1595 in Tidewater (Near Jamestown), James City, VA, christened about 1612 in Jamestown, James City, Virginia, died on 21 Mar 1617 in Graves End, London, Middlesex, England and was buried on 21 Mar 1617 in Gravesend, Kent, England.)

Said to be brother of Lesser Chief Japasaw "Iopassus" Patawomeck, of Passapatanzy

From http://pocahontas.morenus.org/:

The only thing we really know about Kocoum is an offhand written comment that she had been married to "Kocoum, a captainne of Powhatan." Disney chose to assume that Powhatan arranged a marriage, but that Kocoum was killed before it was finalized. Powhatan chiefs would sometimes give a young daughter in honorary marriage, often to form an alliance. When they grew up, their marriage might become real, or they might decide to marry someone else. What really happened there? Your guess is as good as any. The Indians also had a tradition of "divorce by capture", which required the husband of a stolen wife to recapture her. Since Kocoum did not rescue her from the colonists, then Pocahontas was unmarried, when John Rolfe asked for her hand in marriage.

______ Additional name associated with Kocoum is Potowomeke (see Wikitree) Corroberation needed.)

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Kocuom was the brother of Chief Japasaw of the Patawomeck tribe (see - Patawomeck Tides SEPTEMBER 15, 2009 VOLUME 12, NUMBER 1 article by William L. “Night Owl” Deyo ) included in: http://home.nps.gov/jame/historyculture/upload/Patawomeck-Tides-200...

KOCOUM was the younger brother of the Patawomeck Chief JAPASAW and in 1610 he married MATOAKA POCAHONTAS POWHATAN, daughter of WAHUNSONACOCK [WAHUNSUNECA]known as CHIEF POWHATAN at the Werowocomoco Village on the Powhatan Tribal Lands on the Pamunkey River in Virginia.

Following their marriage, KOCOUM and POCAHONTAS settled in the Patawomeck Village and had a daughter KA OKEE in 1612. When POCAHONTAS was lured aboard an English ship in 1613 in Jamestown harbor by the ship captain Captain ARGALL and kidnapped by him, Captain ARGALL had KOCOUM killed.

KA OKEE, the daughter of KOCOUM and POCAHONTAS, was in the Patawomeck Village when her mother was kidnapped and her father was killed. She remained and was raised there and her identity was kept secret to protect her from being harmed by the English. She took the name "JANE" and had a child CHRISTIAN PETTUS by a man whose last name was PETTUS in 1636.

According to WILLIAM "Night Owl" DEYO, present day Patawomeck Tribal Historian: "KA OKEE's husband was thought to be Col. THOMAS PETTUS or possibly THEODORE PETTUS, brother of Col. THOMAS PETTUS, or possibly a son of WILLIAM PETTUS [uncle of Col. THOMAS PETTUS] and ELIZABETH ROLFE who married in 1594." He also mentions that there were close connections between the ROLFE and PETTUS families in England." JOHN ROLFE, who married POCAHONTAS in 1614, "took her to his family estate in England when they visited there in 1616. She no doubt met the PETTUS family and may have asked that if any of them went to Virginia to please check on her daughter KA OKEE. One evidently did check on her and married her..."

Pocahontas's first husband. Married in 1610. Ka - okee born in 1611. He was killed after Pocahontas was kidnapped by the English. He attempted to rescue Pocahontas. They had a daughter named "ka - okee".

Source:

http://www.rootedheritagegenealogy.com/2018/05/ka-okee-daughter-of-...

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131558962/kocoum

https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L14Q-7XC/kocoum-patawomeck-15...

Biography:
Kocoum, the younger brother of Chief Japazaw of the Potowomac (Potomac) tribe, initially lived in the Werowocomoco Village.
Married "Pocahontas" in 1610 - "Pocahontas" & Kocoum had daughter in 1611; named Ka-okee.
In 1613, "Pocahontas" was kidnapped / abducted, raped by English colonists. Her husband Kocoum went to rescue "Pocahontas" but Kocoum was killed by English colonists. Ka-okee was raised by tribal members.

Source:

http://www.southern-style.com/Pettus.htm

https://www.americanindianmagazine.org/story/pocahontas-first-marri...

https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/kocoum-kocoum-24-ksjbg3

https://gw.geneanet.org/adamh92?n=patawomeke&oc=&p=kocoum&_gl=1*157.....

Born in Werowocomoco, Orapax, Virginia, United States on 1590 to Chief Ensenore Algonkea and Scent Flower. Kocoum married Matoaka "Pocahontas" Powhatan and had 1 child. Ka - Okee.

1610, Pocahontas married Kocoum, whom Englishman William Strachey described as a "private captain." Kocoum was not a chief or a councilor, though mention of his being a "private captain" implies he had command over some men. The fact that he was not a chief, and thus not high in status, suggests that Pocahontas may have married for love. Kocoum may have been a member of the Patawomeck tribe. He also might have been a member of her father Powhatan's bodyguards. Pocahontas remained close to her father and continued to be his favorite daughter after her marriage, as the English accounts imply. Although Pocahontas was the favorite daughter of the paramount chief, she still had the freedom to choose whom she married, as did other women in Powhatan society.

Ka-Okee was the daughter of Pocahontas by her first husband, the Patawomeck warrior, Kocoum, younger brother of Chief Japasaw/I-Opassus. According to oral histories of the Patawomeck Tribe and Mattaponi Tribe, Pocahontas' child by Kocoum was raised by the Patawomeck Tribe after her abduction by the English in 1613.
https://patawomeckindiantribeofvirginia.org › ...
Genealogical - Patawomeck Indian Tribe of Virginia

Source:

https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/pocahontas-her-life-a...