By this time, Smith had returned to England. Pocahontas eased relations between Indians and colonists by marrying widower John Rolfe, the founder of English tobacco-growing in Virginia.

One of them was John Rolfe, a widowed settler and pioneer planter of a new strain of tobacco. He was besotted by Pocahontas and wrote that she showed a “great appearance of love to me.” ...

April 5 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1614, Pocahontas, daughter of a chief, married English tobacco planter John Rolfe in Jamestown, Va. It was a marriage that ensured peace between the ...

1614, Pocahontas, the daughter of Tsenacommacah chief Powhatan, married Englishman John Rolfe, a widower, in the Virginia Colony. 1887, in Tuscumbia, Alabama, teacher Anne Sullivan achieved a ...

Edith Bolling Galt Wilson--undeniably "F.F.V." (First Families of Virginia) with roots going back to John Rolfe and the Indian princess Pocahontas--met and married the President in 1915.

Also on this date: In 1614, Pocahontas, the daughter of Tsenacommacah chief Powhatan, married Englishman John Rolfe, a widower, in the Virginia Colony. In 1764, the British Parliament passed the ...

Pocahontas, John Rolfe and more walked and helped write the beginnings of the USA. Colonial Williamsburg is where the ideals founding the Constitution began to grow. It’s 18th Century Colonial ...