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Pocahontas and John Rolfe married (Jamestown - 1614)

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The archaeological site here is where the 1608 church at Jamestown was uncovered.  Rolfe and Pocahontas were married here in 1614.

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John Rolfe

John Rolfe (1585–1622) was one of the early English settlers of North America. He is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Colony of Virginia and is known as the husband of Pocahontas, daughter of the chief of the Powhatan Confederacy.

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