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Thomas Rolfe (January 30, 1615 – c. 1680) was the only child of Pocahontas and her English husband, John Rolfe. His maternal grandfather was Chief Powhatan , the leader of the Powhatan tribe in Virginia .
Pocahontas and John Rolfe had a son, Thomas Rolfe, born in January 1615. [62] Thomas and his wife, Jane Poythress, had a daughter, Jane Rolfe , [ 63 ] who was born in Varina, in present-day Henrico County, Virginia , on October 10, 1650. [ 64 ]
Jane Rolfe (October 10, 1650 – January 27, 1676) was the granddaughter of Pocahontas and English colonist John Rolfe (credited with introducing a strain of tobacco for export by the struggling Virginia Colony). Her husband was Colonel Robert Bolling, who lived from 1646 to 1709. Robert and Jane had one son, John Bolling (1676–1729).
John Rolfe (c. 1585 – March 1622) was an English explorer, farmer and merchant. He is best known for being the husband of Pocahontas and the first settler in the colony of Virginia to successfully cultivate a tobacco crop for export.
John Bolling was the son of Colonel Robert Bolling and Jane (née Rolfe) Bolling. [1] He was the only great-grandchild of Pocahontas and her husband, John Rolfe. [2]John Bolling was born at Kippax Plantation, in Charles City County, in the east central part of Virginia, a site which is now within the corporate limits of the City of Hopewell.
“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 ...
In 1674, he married Jane Rolfe, daughter of Thomas Rolfe, the son of Pocahontas. [1] They had one son, John Bolling (January 27, 1676 – April 20, 1729). [3] Jane Rolfe Bolling is believed to have died in childbirth. John Bolling married Mary Kennon, daughter of Richard Kennon and Elizabeth Worsham, and they had six children. [4]
When the opportunity arose for her to return to her people, she chose to remain with the English. In April 1614, she married tobacco planter John Rolfe, and in January 1615, bore him a son, Thomas Rolfe. Pocahontas's marriage to Rolfe was the first recorded interracial marriage in North American history.