She soon married a tobacco farmer, John Rolfe;
Rolfe claimed her final words were“all must die, but
tis enough that the child liveth.”.
Rolfe also married the Indian princess Pocahontas,
something not without controversy among his fellow colonists.
She instead chose to remain with the colonists and marry John Rolfe, a tobacco farmer.
According to Rolfe, her last words were“all must die,
but tis enough that her child liveth.”.
She gave birth to their son Thomas Rolfe in January of 1615 after nine months of marriage.
Thomas Rolfe also got sick,
so was left in England in the care of his uncle and never saw his father again.
Pocahontas, now Rebecca Rolfe, traveled with her husband and one year old son to London in
1616 where she was presented to English society.
In 1612, six years after the settlement of Jamestown, John Rolfe was credited as the first settler to successfully
raise tobacco as a cash crop.
In 1612, to undercut the Spaniards,
Englishman and Virginia colonist John Rolfe obtained tobacco seeds from Trinidad
or South America(even though the Spanish had threatened death to anyone selling seeds to a non-Spaniard) and planted them in Virginia.