John Rolfe
Author, Deceased Person
1585 – 1622
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Who was John Rolfe?
John Rolfe was one of the early English settlers of North America. He is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Colony of Virginia and is known as the husband of Pocahontas, daughter of the chief of the Powhatan Confederacy.
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- Born
- May 6, 1585
Heacham - Also known as
- husband of Pocahontas
- Parents
- Spouses
- Pocahontas
(1614/04/05 - 1617/03) - Jane Pierce
(1619 - )
- Pocahontas
- Children
- Religion
- Church of England
- Christianity
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Lived in
- Virginia
- Died
- 1622
Varina Plantation
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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