Transported to Virginia
Before I return to the story of the Hurt family, one of whose descendants married into the Reagan family, I want to share a link to a YouTube video concerning Pocahontas. The producers provide some background to Pocahontas' story and then attempt to show what her appearance might actually look like if you saw her in life, based on the picture that accompanied last week's post. You can find it here: The True Face of Pocahontas? Now back to the Hurts, none of whom would have ever known Pocahontas, as they came to Virginia after her death. Stephen Hamlin (also spelled Hamelin or Hamlyn) brought the Hurt family to Virginia as part of a group of 25 immigrants. Hamlin and his brothers had come to Massachusetts about 15 years before, with one brother settling in Boston and the other going to Mexico. Steven obtained a land patent in Virginia two years later. To obtain a patent a colonist generally had to provide some sort of service to a government official, such as a royal or a g