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The birthplace of John Rolfe, born c. 1585, remains unproven. At that time, the Spanish Empire held a virtual monopoly on the lucrative tobacco trade. Most Spanish colonies in the Americas were located in South America and the West Indies, which were more favorable to tobacco growth than their English counterparts (founded in the early 17th century, notably Jamestown in 1607).
Rolfe and Pocahontas married April 16, 1614 and had their only son 8 months later on January 18, 1615. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] This was the first known inter-racial union in Virginia and helped to bring a brief period of better relations between the Indians and the colonists.
During her stay at Henricus, Pocahontas met John Rolfe. Rolfe's English-born wife Sarah Hacker and child Bermuda had died on the way to Virginia after the wreck of the ship Sea Venture on the Summer Isles, now known as Bermuda. He established the Virginia plantation Varina Farms, where he cultivated a new strain of tobacco. Rolfe was a pious ...
In the autumn of 1616, Baron De La Warr and his wife Lady Cecilia introduced John Rolfe and his wife, Pocahontas, into English society. The visitors from Virginia were in London to raise funds for the Virginia Company of London and to encourage colonization of Virginia.
John Rolfe (son-in-law) Powhatan ( c. 1547 – c. 1618), whose proper name was Wahunsenacawh (alternately spelled Wahunsenacah , Wahunsunacock, or Wahunsonacock ), was the leader of the Powhatan , an alliance of Algonquian -speaking Native Americans living in Tsenacommacah , in the Tidewater region of Virginia at the time when English settlers ...
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A social event held by slaves in Surinam. John Rolfe, a settler from Jamestown, was the first colonist to grow tobacco in North America.He arrived in Virginia with tobacco seeds procured from an earlier voyage to Trinidad, and in 1612, he harvested his inaugural crop for sale on the European market. [2]