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Pocahontas was captured and held for ransom by English colonists during hostilities in 1613. During her captivity, she was encouraged to convert to Christianity and was baptized under the name Rebecca. She married the tobacco planter John Rolfe in April 1614 at the age of about 17 or 18, and she bore their son, Thomas Rolfe, in January 1615. [1]
Thomas Rolfe was born in the English colony of Virginia to John Rolfe and his wife, Pocahontas, in January 1615. [1] It is believed he was born at the Rolfe family plantation, Varina, in what was then the corporation of James Cittie.
Rolfe married Pocahontas, daughter of the local Native American leader Powhatan, on 5 April 1614. [7] Earlier that same year, Pocahontas chose to convert to Christianity; she was baptized by Alexander Whitaker and chose "Rebecca" as her new baptismal name. [8] Richard Buck officiated their wedding. Their son, Thomas Rolfe, was born in January ...
Pocahontas and Edward Norton. Shutterstock(2) Finding out his family history. Edward Norton appeared on the season 9 premiere of Finding Your Roots, where he learned that historical figure ...
John Bolling was the son of Colonel Robert Bolling and Jane (née Rolfe) Bolling. [1] He was the only great-grand-child 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.
US President Donald Trump has repeatedly used the name "Pocahontas" to bash Sen. Elizabeth Warren. "Pocahontas" was the nickname of a teenage girl who was abducted by English colonists in 1613 and ...
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).
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World is a 1998 American direct-to-video animated musical adventure film and the sequel to the 1995 Disney film Pocahontas.While the first film dealt with her meeting with John Smith and the arrival of the British settlers in Jamestown, the sequel focuses on Pocahontas's journey to England with John Rolfe to negotiate for peace between the two nations, although ...