Smith admitted in his own writings to being a rather randy fellow, shall we say, in his years soldiering around Europe, before he went to Jamestown.
The first record I’m aware of in Jamestown of Pocahontas is her coming into the fort with a pack of other girls buck naked, dancing wildly.
Smith spent a couple of years out in the wild interacting with her and her tribe. The entire Atlantic Ocean between him and the Crown, and him and a single English woman.
It strains credulity to think that they weren’t intimate, in my opinion.
Add to that the fact that Powhatan treated him like a son in law, and that there were reports of at least one child escaping when she was kidnapped by the English, not long before she converted and married Rolfe.
Anyhow, like I said, I can’t prove it officially, but there is a ring of truth to the whole story, to me.
And the story has come down to us through our Hiatt line. There are even a couple of examples of the middle name Powhatan being used by family members down through the years.
William Byrd reports an Indian mother hinting that she would have let her daughter sleep with him if she had been a year older. The Indians of that region apparently saw nothing wrong with premarital sex, but evidently had strong views on when a person was too young, and Pocahontas may have fallen into that category during the time that Capt. John Smith was in Virginia.