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'''Pocahontas''' (1595 - 1617 A.D.) was an [[American Indian]] princess who was married to Captain [[John Rolfe]], one of the colonists in [[Jamestown]]. Her father was part of the Powhatan Confederacy in Werowocomoco. Pocahontas was abducted to obtain release of prisoners held by her father in 1613.  

'''Pocahontas''' (1595 - 1617 A.D.) (Whose name, roughly translated, means “little wanton” was the favorite daughter of Powhatan, who ruled the loose confederacy that bore his name. She is perhaps best known for her “rescue” of John Smith, an event that many scholars argue was misunderstood by Smith, or perhaps, never occurred. She was instrumental in providing food to the Jamestown colony in its earliest days. In a613, the English abducted Pocahontas and held her hostage aboard ship in an effort to insure her father’s good behavior toward the English. During her captivity, she “converted” (there is some dispute as the sincerity of her conversion) to Christianity and was rechristened Rebecca.  She subsequently married [[John Rolfe]], a colonist who was instrumental in the economic salvation of [[Jamestown]] when he introduced a hardy, flavorful strain of tobacco.  

Pocahontas bore a child by John Rolfe, one Thomas Rolfe. Many living today trace their ancestry to Pocahontas, including Pauline de Rothschild, Charles Joseph Cabell, Edith Wilson (the wife of [[Woodrow Wilson]]) and George Wythe Randolph.{{fact}} Some genealogists have claimed that the [[Bush]] family (including US presidents [[George H. W. Bush]] and [[George W. Bush]]) are descended from Pocahontas based on the assumption that Robert Bolling Jr. (a 10th generation ancestor) was the son of Robert Bolling and Jane Rolfe (the granddaughter of Pocahontas). However Jane Rolfe Bolling died in 1676, six years before the birth of Robert Bolling Jr. who was the son of Robert Bolling by his second wife, Anne Stithe.{{fact}}

Pocahontas bore a child by John Rolfe, one Thomas Rolfe. Pocahontas returned to England with Rolfe, where she was introduced to court. She took ill just as the Rolfes embarked to return to England. She died there, and is interred at Gravesend.  

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