Rebecca Rolfe (Pocahontas)

Pocahontas (c. 1596–1617), later baptized Rebecca, was the daughter of Powhatan, leader of Virginia's Powhatan Confederacy. After the English founded Jamestown she became linked with the colony, and John Smith made their encounters famous. Seized for ransom by the colonists in 1613, she converted to Christianity and in 1614 married John Rolfe; their son Thomas was born in 1615.

They travelled to London in 1616, where she was presented to English society to encourage investment in Jamestown and fêted at court. She died at Gravesend in March 1617, about to return to Virginia.