This 1899 illustration shows the marriage of Pocahontas to John Rolfe in 1614. English Captain John Smith guided the colonists through difficult times in the Jamestown settlement of 1607. But records say: John Smith came to the Powhatan when Pocahontas was about 9 or 10. 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 involved.

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