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Powhatan People and the English at Jamestown
An illustration of Pocahontas created in England in 1618.

An illustration of Pocahontas created in England in 1618.

After she lost her first husband, Kocoum, and after she was kidnapped and held hostage by the English in their attempt to persuade her father to be lenient to them, Matoaka (or Pocahontas) converted to Christianity and received the name Rebecca. In 1614, she married John Rolfe, an Englishman from the Jamestown colony. In 1615 Rolfe took Matoaka to England, where she became sick and died.

Transcription:

Matoaks Als Rebecka daughter to the Mighty Prince

Powhatan Emperour of Attanoughakomouck als virginia

converted and baptized in the Christian faith, and

wife to the worthy Mr. John Rolff

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Citation Information
van de Passe, Simon, “Pocahontas,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/5dc8acbe40138181cee4fac43b7ccb77.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of National Portrait Gallery via Smithsonian Institution.

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A “New Map of Virginia” (with images of Powhatan), 1633 or 1636.
The town of Pomeiock, reproduced by Spencer Nichols from a 1585 watercolor by John White.
Secoton, an American Indian community in North Carolina, engraved by Theodor de Bry in 1590, based on John White’s watercolor of 1585.
Theodor de Bry’s engraving of John White’s illustration of the first Englishmen arriving in Virginia in 1585.
A 1617 illustration of John Smith, the first leader of Jamestown.
An illustration of Pocahontas created in England in 1618.
Excerpts from a pamphlet published in 1609 in favor of English settlement in Virginia.
A nineteenth-century artist imagines what the early days of Jamestown might have looked like.
An excerpt from A True Relation by Captain John Smith, 1608.
An excerpt from John Smith’s second account of being captured and released by Powhatan, published in 1624.

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