John Rolfe - HISTORY
WEBDec 16, 2009 · John Rolfe (1585-1622) was an early settler of North America known for being the first person to cultivate tobacco in Virginia and for marrying Pocahontas. Rolfe arrived in Jamestown in...
John Rolfe - The First Tobacco Baron | British Heritage
WEBEstablishing Britain's New World Legacy through Tobacco. John Rolfe (1585–1622) was not only one of the early English settlers of North America but a pivotal figure in shaping British colonial heritage.
John Rolfe - Wikipedia
WEBJohn 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 Rolfe - Historic Jamestowne Part of Colonial National …
WEBSep 4, 2022 · It was John Rolfe's experiments with tobacco that developed the first profitable export. The Spaniards found the natives in the West Indies using the tobacco plant. They took seed to Europe where its use soon spread to other countries around the Mediterranean Sea.
John Rolfe (d. 1622) - Encyclopedia Virginia
WEBAug 26, 2024 · ENTRY. John Rolfe (d. 1622) SUMMARY. John Rolfe served as secretary and recorder general of Virginia (1614–1619) and as a member of the governor’s Council (1614–1622). He is best known for having married Pocahontas in 1614 and for being the first to cultivate marketable tobacco in Virginia.
Tobacco & Colonial American Economy - World History …
WEBFeb 12, 2021 · The most important cash crop in Colonial America was tobacco, first cultivated by the English at their Jamestown Colony of Virginia in 1610 CE by the merchant John Rolfe (l. 1585-1622 CE).
John Rolfe | Pocahontas, Jamestown, Virginia | Britannica
WEBAug 9, 2024 · John Rolfe was a Virginia planter and colonial official who was the husband of Pocahontas, daughter of the Indian chief Powhatan. John Rolfe sailed for Virginia in 1609, but a shipwreck in the Bermudas delayed his arrival until the following year. About 1612 he began to experiment with growing.
John Rolfe - World History Encyclopedia
WEBFeb 16, 2021 · John Rolfe (l. 1585-1622 CE) was an English merchant and colonist of Jamestown best known as the husband of Pocahontas (l. c. 1596-1617 CE). He is also known, however, for his successful cultivation of tobacco in Virginia which established the crop as the most lucrative export of the early English colonies of North America.
John Rolfe - Historic Jamestowne
WEBRolfe experimented with tobacco, which until that point had been controlled on European markets by the Spanish. Ralph Hamor, Secretary of Virginia, said Rolfe used tobacco seeds he obtained from somewhere in the Caribbean, possibly from Trinidad.
Tobacco in Colonial Virginia
WEBAug 26, 2024 · The tobacco that the first English settlers encountered in Virginia—the Virginia Indians’ Nicotiana rustica —tasted dark and bitter to the English palate; it was John Rolfe who in 1612 obtained Spanish seeds, or Nicotiana tabacum, from the Orinoco River valley—seeds that, when planted in the relatively rich …