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3 de feb. de 2019 · Thomas Rolfe married a Virginia wife, Jane Poythress, and became a tobacco planter, living as an Englishman. Pocahontas' many well-connected descendants through Thomas include Edith Wilson, wife of President Woodrow Wilson, and Thomas Mann Randolph, jr., husband of Martha Washington Jefferson who was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and his wife Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson.
Thomas Rolfe was born in the English colony of Virginia to John Rolfe and his wife, Matoaka, in January 1615. [1] It is believed he was born at the Rolfe family plantation, Varina, in what was then the corporation of James Cittie. Rolfe's birth was recorded as the first time a child was born to a Native American woman and a European man in the ...
16 de nov. de 2022 · Thomas Rolfe was born in either 1614 or 1615, depending on the source. In 1616, he went to England with his parents on a sort of propaganda tour to promote The Virginia Company and English settlement there. Just before they were supposed to leave England and return to Virginia, Pocahontas suddenly died. Thomas fell sick at the same time but ...
Thomas Rolfe returned to Virginia in the 1630s. By that time, paramount chief Powhatan and John Rolfe were both dead. Peace with the Indians had been broken in 1622 by a bloody offensive led by Pocahontas’s uncle, Opechancanough. Pocahontas’s impact.
Thomas Rolfe. found in U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current. Thomas Rolfe. found in Library of Congress Photo Collection, 1840-2000. Thomas Rolfe. found in Millennium File. Thomas Rolfe. found in Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015. View more historical records for Thomas Rolfe.
Thomas Rolfe was a young boy when his mother died. John, rather than bringing Thomas back overseas to Virginia, left his son in England, in the care of a series of wards. As a young man, Thomas Rolfe returned to the New World to claim the lands his father left him when he, too, died. Thomas found himself drawn into conflicts with the tribes ...
Thomas Rolfe ble født på Smiths plantasje i Jamestown i Virginia. Han vokste opp i England, og ble 13. september 1632 gift med Elizabeth Washington i St James's church i London. Datteren Anne ble født i 1633, men Elizabeth døde kort etter datterens fødsel. I 1635 reiste Thomas Rolfe tilbake til Virginia og etterlot datteren hos fetteren ...
