WHITAKER, Alexander, clergyman, born in Cambridge, England, in 1585 ; died in Henrico county, Virginia, after 1613. His father, Reverend William Whitaker, was master of St. John's college, Cambridge. Alexander was graduated at that university, took orders in the Church of England, and for several years was rector of a parish in the north of England. He settled in Henrico county, Virginia, in 1611, and during the same year built one church, laid the foundations of another, and "impaled a fine parsonage with a hundred acres of land, calling it Rock Hall." His letters, in which he expresses his great surprise that more of the English clergy did not engage in missionary work, testify also to his usefulness and energy. He baptized Pocahontas, and subsequently officiated at her marriage to John Rolfe. (See POWHATAN.) Mr. Whitaker published "Good News from Virginia." which was one of the first books that were written in that colony (London, 1613).