Did you know that John Rolfe was the first to make tobacco a commercial crop? John Rolfe was a Politician and a working man, who developed the first profitable export. First, John Rolfe was a family man who married plenty of times including Pocahontas. Second, he was the first to successfully export tobacco to another country for a profit. Lastly, his historic marriage to Pocahontas led to a state of peace between Indians and colonists for quite some time. John Rolfe was a working man who lived to meet each of his family’s needs.
First, starting with John Rolfe and the families he dealt with over the years, he was born in Norfolk, England in the year 1585 and was the son of John Rolfe, Sr. and Dorothea Mason. There is little recorded about his early life, and the next important events in Rolfe’s life are his marriages. John Rolfe was married three times. His first marriage was with a woman whose name is still unknown today, there is very little information on her. From this first marriage came a daughter, Bermuda, named after landing in Bermuda in 1609. Shortly after their arrival in Bermuda, Rolfe’s first wife and child die.
Notably, Rolfe’s second marriage is the one that seems most vital. This marriage consisted of Pocahontas, the Indian princess, daughter of the leader of the Powhatan Federation. This marriage also resulted in a son, Thomas Rolfe. They were not married for long due to her death but their marriage was an eventful marriage in a positive way.
Furthermore, after the death of his second wife, John Rolf remarried one final time sometime in 1619 or 1620 before his own death to a woman named Joane Pierce. Joane Pierce was a daughter of a fellow colonist in Virginia, William Pierce. Rolfe and Pierce had a daughter n...
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...oted, John Rolfe was a family man who married plenty of times but the most important marriage was to Pocahontas, the daughter of the famous Indian leader of the Powhatan Federation. Rolfe was the first to successfully export tobacco to another country for a profit, and his historic marriage to Pocahontas led to a state of peace between Indians and colonists for quite some time. John Rolfe was a working man who lived to meet each of his family’s needs.
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Salmon, Emily Jones. "John Rolfe (d. 1622)." Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 29 Jan. 2013. Web. 16 Mar. 2014.
Cayton, Andrew R. L. "European Colonization of the Americas." Prentice Hall America: Pathways to the Present. Needham, MA: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005. 46-47. Print.
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