Tomocomo, visited London 1616
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Captain John Smith
Captain John Smith wrote of meeting Tomocomo in London where he reported they "renewed their acquaintance.”
The Reverend Samuel Purchas, a writer, described meeting Tomocomo at the home of his “good friend Master Doctor Goldstone, where he was a frequent guest… and heard him discourse of his country and religion."
Native Ceremony
Pocahontas and Tomocomo may never have had a formal audience with King James; but it is believed that, in January of 1617, they were brought before him at the Banqueting House in Whitehall Palace in London.
When Tomocomo returned to Virginia later that year, he was said to have raged "against England, English people," and the former lieutenant governor of Jamestown, Thomas Dale. When the colonists refuted his claims, the Indian leaders chose not to believe his tirades, and Tomocomo was disgraced.
In 1617 an epidemic of “bloody flux” struck both English and Indians in Virginia. Tomocomo may have been one of the carriers of the fever to the Indians when he returned from England.
Nothing is known of Tomocomo's life after that time.page 2, << back