During her captivity at Jamestown, Pocahontas falls in love with an English settler, John Rolfe. Was this coincidence or was it strategy? It's hard to know. What we do know is that the marriage ...
While some 19th-century images of Pocahontas highlighted her marriage to John Rolfe, countless others focused instead on her feelings toward John Smith. Most historians doubt that a full-fledged ...
Ganteaume, Smithsonian It seems likely that we will never fully know what Pocahontas thought of her abduction, instruction in the tenets of Anglicanism, marriage to John Rolfe, and experiences in ...
What's more, while it was covered in the sequel, Pocahontas actually married John Rolfe, not John Smith. Some historians maintain that marriage was forced upon her after a kidnapping. She was also ...
“This is a family matter,” the father of the bride insisted. “It’s going to be handled in a family way.” And Dean Rusk made it stick. A hermetic shroud of secrecy effectively surrounded ...
While tracing Norton's ancestry, Mr Gates discovered his 12th great grandparents were John Rolfe and Pocahontas. "You have a direct paper trail," Mr Gates said. "No doubt about it." The two were ...
Historians believe that the figure now more commonly called Pocahontas was born somewhere ... Christianity by her captors and then married John Rolfe. He had agonised over marrying a ‘heathen ...
Tests aiming to establish the truth of a legend claiming that Pocahontas planted a mulberry ... travelled to England in 1616 with husband John Rolfe after helping save a colonialist's life.
With the winter break over, Wichita Public Schools is continuing with remote learning for all of its students. On Monday (Jan. 4), Eyewitness News spoke with the district about what it will take ...