Taking it way back! Edward Norton found out on FindingYourRoots that he’s related to historical figure Pocahontas.
star quipped in the episode. “Makes you realize what a small piece of the whole human story you are.”Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP/Shutterstock, was notably the daughter of the former chief of the Tsenacommacah tribe. When British colonizers arrived in what would become Jamestown, Virginia, Pocahontas was quickly captured in 1613. During her time with the English settlers, she wed tobacco planter John Rolfe. The pair welcomed son Thomas in January 1615.
Gates Jr. further noted that Norton has a “direct paper trail” to Pocahontas and Rolfe after he had long heard family stories claiming such an ancestral connection.
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