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Pocahontas's birth year is unknown, but some historians estimate it to have been around 1596. [1] In A True Relation of Virginia (1608), the English explorer John Smith described meeting Pocahontas in the spring of 1608 when she was "a child of ten years old". [6]
John Smith (baptized 6 January 1580 – 21 June 1631) was an English soldier, explorer, colonial governor, admiral of New England, and author.Following his return to England from a life as a soldier of fortune and as a slave, [1] he played an important role in the establishment of the colony at Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in North America, in the early 17th century.
While the real Pocahontas was eleven or twelve years old upon meeting John Smith, she is depicted as being around eighteen or nineteen years of age in the film, according to her supervising animator Glen Keane. Keane explained that this change was made because a film wherein a thirty-year-old Smith falls in love with a child would be "sleazy". [1]
A Description of New England by John Smith. Spring 1616: John Rolfe, "Rebecca Rolfe" (Pocahontas), son Thomas Rolfe, a company of about 12 Powhatans, Stephen Hopkins, Thomas Dale, and others leave for England aboard the Treasurer. [12] [33] April 1616: George Yeardley is appointed deputy-governor while Thomas Dale returns to England. [34]
Rolfe died in 1622. He may have died in the Indian massacre of 1622, [12] [13] but the evidence is uncertain. [14] His widow Jane later married English Captain Roger Smith. The land given by Powhatan (now known as Smith's Fort Plantation, located in Surry County) was willed to Thomas Rolfe, who in 1640 sold at least a portion of it to Thomas ...
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Uttamatomakkin (known as Tomocomo for short) was a Powhatan holy man who accompanied Pocahontas when she was taken to London in 1616. [1] Little is known about Tomocomo's life before his visit to London. He appears to have met Captain John Smith during Smith's time in Virginia, since Smith says that in London they "renewed their acquaintance". [2]
Doctors say it's a miracle that fourteen-year-old John Smith is alive. On Martin Luther King Day, Smith and two friends fell through ice on a lake outside of Saint Louis. The two friends made it ...