This 1890i illustration shows the marriage of Pocahontas to English tobacco planter John Rolfe in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1614. English Captain John Smith guided the colonists through difficult times in the Jamestown settlement of 1607. According to Mattaponi oral history, little Matoaka was possibly about 10 years old when John Smith and English colonists arrived in Tsenacomoca in the spring of 1607. John Smith was about 27 years old. They were never married nor

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