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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

John Rolfe - and she and Smith sail away to Britain together at the end of the film. History, however, tells a different and darker tale. To start, Pocahontas was just a nickname, meaning "the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.