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- 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
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