John Rolfe's Discovery Of Pocahontas
The man once an English diplomat, England's main tobacco producer, and husband of Matoaka (also known as Pocahontas), was none other than John Rolfe. In the time where the New World has been recently discovered, in the year of 1609, his journey set sailed from England to Jamestown, Virginia on the Sea Venture as part of a new charter from the organization of the Virginia Company. The ship, however, wrecked onto the Caribbean on one of the Bermuda islands from a hurricane. While stranded between 1609 and 1611, Rolfe collected the tobacco seeds from the West Indies/Spanish (the natives in the Caribbean) before he and other colonists traveled back to Virginia. By 1612, Rolfe began to plant his tobacco experimentations in Virginia. Originally
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She was the daughter of Wahunsenaca (Chief Powhatan). In 1613, the same year John Rolfe started his tobacco plantation, is when the English captured Pocahontas and brought her to Henrico (present-day Richmond). The English believed if they captured her, they could use her to exchange to obtain their Englishmen and weapons back from the Indians. The transaction never occurred. Rather, Pocahontas learned the English language, religion, and customs. From her religious instruction, is where she met John Rolfe; shortly after wanted to marry. Rolfe obtained marriage permission from the Powhatan as well as the military governor of Virginia, Sir Thomas Dale. On April 5, 1614, their marriage of uneasy peace between the English settlers and the Native Americans lasted for about eight years. By March of 1617, Pocahontas died from an unfamiliar disease on the voyage back to Virginia. A year late, the English and the Native Americans peace dissolved. The Indians have become angrier with the English colonists insatiable of land use for producing more tobacco. Later in March 1622, the Algonquians (under Powhatan's successor, Opechankeno) committed a massacre on the English colonies; killing one – quarter of the population. The same year of the invasion, John Rolfe died whether from killed from the massacre or from
She was the daughter of Wahunsenaca (Chief Powhatan). In 1613, the same year John Rolfe started his tobacco plantation, is when the English captured Pocahontas and brought her to Henrico (present-day Richmond). The English believed if they captured her, they could use her to exchange to obtain their Englishmen and weapons back from the Indians. The transaction never occurred. Rather, Pocahontas learned the English language, religion, and customs. From her religious instruction, is where she met John Rolfe; shortly after wanted to marry. Rolfe obtained marriage permission from the Powhatan as well as the military governor of Virginia, Sir Thomas Dale. On April 5, 1614, their marriage of uneasy peace between the English settlers and the Native Americans lasted for about eight years. By March of 1617, Pocahontas died from an unfamiliar disease on the voyage back to Virginia. A year late, the English and the Native Americans peace dissolved. The Indians have become angrier with the English colonists insatiable of land use for producing more tobacco. Later in March 1622, the Algonquians (under Powhatan's successor, Opechankeno) committed a massacre on the English colonies; killing one – quarter of the population. The same year of the invasion, John Rolfe died whether from killed from the massacre or from