Princess Matoaka Pocahontas Powhatan

1595 - 1617  (21 years)

• Name	Pocahontas Powhatan  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Title	Princess Matoaka
  Birth	1 Sep 1595	Virginia, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4, 6]
  	Tidewater/Colonial Virginia
  Gender	Female
  Name	Rebecca
  Death	21 Mar 1617	Gravesend, Kent, England   [1, 2, 3, 4, 6]
  	Graves End, London, England
  Burial	Heacham, Norfolk, England   [3, 4, 6, 7]
  	There is a memorial to Pocahontas in St Mary the Virgin Church, but her body lies under St George's Church./St Mary the Virgin Churchyard
  		Churchyard-St Mary the Virgin (England)
  Person ID	I13003	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Wahunsenacawh Powhatan,   b. 17 Jun 1545, New River, Pulaski, Virginia, USA d. 1618, New Kent County, Virginia, USA (Age 72 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Nonoma Winanuske,   b. 1571   d. 1612, Virginia, USA (Age 41 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1595
  	Werowocomoco, Orapax, Pre-Colonial Virginia
  Family ID	F1092	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	John Thomas Rolfe,   b. 6 May 1585, Heacham, Norfolk, England d. 20 Mar 1622, Jamestown, James City County, Virginia, USA (Age 36 years)
  Marriage	5 Apr 1614	Jamestown, James City County, Virginia, USA   [1, 8]
  Children	1. Thomas Rolfe,   b. 30 Jan 1615, Jamestown, James City County, Virginia, USA d. 1680, Richmond, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA (Age 64 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F8502	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

  Family 2	Admiral of New England Captain John F Smith,   b. 2 Jan 1579, Willoughby, Lincolnshire, England d. 21 Jun 1631, Willoughby, Lincolnshire, England (Age 52 years)
  Relationship	1608	Virginia, USA   [6]
  	(never married)
  Family ID	F3310	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1 Sep 1595 - Virginia, USA Relationship - (never married) - 1608 - Virginia, USA Marriage - 5 Apr 1614 - Jamestown, James City County, Virginia, USA Death - 21 Mar 1617 - Gravesend, Kent, England Burial - - Heacham, Norfolk, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos		Pocahontas
  		Pocahontas Engraving

  
  

  Histories

  History-Pocahontas

  
  

  Headstones

  Churchyard-St Mary the Virgin (England)

  
  

  Places		Church-St Georges (England)
  		Historical Marker-Pocahontas

  
  

• Sources

  [S525] Ancestry.com, Alabama, Surname Files Expanded, 1702–1981, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA;), Alabama Department of Archives and History; Montgomery, AL; Alabama Surname Files; Box or Film Number: M84.0099. Alabama, Surname Files Expanded, 1702–1981 [S334] Ancestry.com, Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-22, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), London, England: Oxford University Press; Volume: Vol 15; Page: 1336. Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-22 [S1214] Ancestry.com, Web: Global, Gravestone Photograph Index, 1265-2014, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2016;). [S251] Ancestry.com, UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). [S535] Godfrey Memorial Library, comp., American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI), (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 1999;). [S893] Wikipedia: Pocahontas, (Name: Wikipedia;), Pocahontas. Pocahontas; born Matoaka, known as Amonute, c. 1596 – March 1617) was a Native American woman notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribes in the Tsenacommacah, encompassing the Tidewater region of Virginia. Pocahontas was captured and held for ransom by the Colonists during hostilities in 1613. During her captivity, she was encouraged to convert to Christianity and was baptized under the name Rebecca. She married tobacco planter John Rolfe in April 1614 aged about 17 or 18, and she bore their son Thomas Rolfe in January 1615. In 1616, the Rolfes travelled to London where Pocahontas was presented to English society as an example of the "civilized savage" in hopes of stimulating investment in the Jamestown settlement. She became something of a celebrity, was elegantly fêted, and attended a masque at Whitehall Palace. In 1617, the Rolfes set sail for Virginia, but Pocahontas died at Gravesend of unknown causes, aged 20 or 21. She was buried in St George's Church, Gravesend, in England, but her grave's exact location is unknown because the church was rebuilt after a fire destroyed it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas Pocahontas Engraving [S1215] Wikipedia: St George's Church, Gravesend, (Name: Wikipedia;), St George's Church, Gravesend. Rebecca (Pocahontas), Native American wife of American colonist John Rolfe, died in Gravesend at age 20 or 21 and was buried under the chancel of this church on 21 March 1617. William Ordway Partridge's bronze statue commemorates her. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_George's_Church,_Gravesend Church-St Georges (England) [S4] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online.