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Possible first marriage Mattaponi tradition holds that Pocahontas's first husband was Kocoum (also spelled Kocoom), brother of the Patawomeck weroance Japazaws, and it is speculated that Kocoum was killed by the colonists after his wife's capture in 1613, or they could have ended the relationship through divorce. Although they were married, it appears that he had been gone long enough for the colonists to not question Pocahontas' former marriage. Being the daughter of the chieftain, Pocahontas would have had many suitors for marriage, and she had the ability to reject marriage requests. It is possible that she could have liked him and accepted the marriage, rather than it being forced upon her. Today's Patawomecks believe that Pocahontas and Kocoum had a daughter named Ka-Okee who was raised by the Patawomecks after her father's death and her mother's abduction.[40]

Kocoum's identity, location, and very existence have been widely debated among scholars for centuries; the only mention of a "Kocoum" in any English document is a brief statement written about 1616 by William Strachey in England that Pocahontas had been living married to a "private captaine called Kocoum" for two years.[41] She married John Rolfe in 1614, and no other records even hint at any previous husband, so some have suggested that Strachey was mistakenly referring to Rolfe himself, with the reference being later misunderstood as one of Powhatan's officers.[42]

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