[EternalVigilance]

Yeah.

But there is strong, though circumstantial, evidence that Pocahontas and John Smith had two children prior to her marriage to Rolfe.

Our family tradition is that we are descended from their son Peregrine.

Can’t prove it from the official records though. The Crown could have easily executed Smith for this illicit union.

[Verginius Rufus]

That's news to me--John Smith left not too long after, when Pocahontas was still pretty young.

Would the Crown have cared about illicit unions with native damsels? William Byrd of Westover (1674-1744) in his account of how they surveyed the boundary between Virginia and North Carolina makes it clear that there were some "illicit unions" taking place between the surveyors and the unmarried Indian girls they encountered, and he could have suppressed that entirely if it would have caused someone to be executed.