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Oct 2, 2024 · John Rolfe was a respected planter who played an important role in the survival of American colony – first Eglish Permanent Colony. But the efforts of Rolfe was overshadowed by the legacy of Pocahontas – wife of John Rolfe.
Sep 22, 2024 · Over the following year, she converted to Christianity and became close to an Englishman named John Rolfe, a pioneering planter of tobacco. Rolfe asked for and received permission from the colony’s leaders to marry Pocahontas; the wedding took place in April 1614.
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4 days ago · John Rolfe, who had recently come to England to try some tobacco, became interested in Pocahontas when she was about 18 and he was 28. He proposed a diplomatic marriage to Powhatan in a confession letter that proceeded to create an alliance between the groups.
Sep 21, 2024 · She died in Gravesend, England shortly before March 21, 1617 at age 21, buried in the church there, and survived by her English husband, Captain John Rolfe, Ancient Planter, and their son Lieut. Thomas Rolfe, who had been born January 30, 1615 in the Jamestown Colony.
- Tsenacommacah
- Diplomat, Medicine Woman, Spy
- 1596
- Gravesend, Kent, England, United Kingdom
2 days ago · Philbrick speculates that Tisquantum may have been poisoned by Massasoit. His bases for the claim are (i) that other Native Americans had engaged in assassinations during the 17th century; and (ii) that Massasoit's own son, Metacomet, may have assassinated John Sassamon, an event that led to the bloody King Philip's War a half-century later. He ...
Sep 25, 2024 · John Rolfe, A True Relation of the State of Virginia. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
