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The son of Pocahontas, Thomas Rolfe lived a somewhat turbulent life caught between two worlds, perhaps beginning with ...
In 1616, Pocahontas, baptized "Rebecca" and married to John Rolfe, left for England. Before she could return to Virginia, she fell ill. She died in England, possibly of pneumonia or tuberculosis ...
“John Rolfe and Pocahontas got married on April 5, 1614. Shakespeare dies in 1616, just to put this in perspective,” the Finding Your Roots host, 72, said in the episode. “Pocahontas died ...
Pocahontas met widower John Rolfe and the two married. In 1614, she converted to Christianity, was baptized "Rebecca," and the pair had a baby named Thomas. The family moved to England in 1616.
Then in 1616, Rolfe travelled to Gravesend in the UK, taking his new wife Pocahontas with him. He was there to spruik tobacco, which he was growing in Virginia and wanted the English to invest in.
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In 1616, the Rolfes travelled to London where Pocahontas was presented to English society as an example of the “civilised savage” in hopes of stimulating investment in the Jamestown settlement.