John Rolfe

b 06 May 1585, Heacham, Norfolk, , England
d 1622, Jamestown, James City, Virginia
bur Jamestown, , Virginia  
c 06 May 1585, Heacham, Norfolk, , England Robert Rolfe  
Eustace Rolfe b 1534  
| b 1536    
John Rolfe  d Jun1593  
|b 17 Oct 1562 |    
|d 29 Nov 1594 Joanna Jenner  
|  b 1539    
John Rolfe    
|Mrs. Rolfe-1 +    
|m 1608    
|, , , England |    
Dorothy Mason  
 b 1559 |    
     
   

Notes

Rolfe, John (1585-1622), English colonist, born in Norfolk, England. He sailed to America in the expedition of the English navigator Sir George Somers (1554-1610) and reached Virginia in 1610. He became a planter and is said to have been the first colonist to begin the cultivation of the tobacco plant. In 1614 he married Pocahontas, the younger daughter of the American Indian chief Powhatan, and in 1616 he took her to England, where she died the following year. Rolfe returned to Virginia, where in 1621 he became a member of the first Council of State.

'Rolfe, John,' Microsoft (R) Encarta. Copyright (c) 1993 Microsoft Corporation. Copyright (c) 1993 Funk & Wagnall's Corporation

Index Previous Next
© Copyright 1995, 1996 David L. Beckwith