During the summer and fall of 1607, illness had wiped out approximately ... Rolfe would return to Jamestown alone. Pocahontas died suddenly from an unknown cause in 1617, and Rolfe decided to ...

University of Alabama Press, 2006. Jamestown Narratives: Eyewitness Accounts of the Virginia Colony, The First Decade: 1607-1617. edited by Edward Wright Haile. RoundHouse Books, 1998.

The Park Service plans to shed light on pre-Colonial Indian society at the site where Pocahontas met John Smith. In December 1607, six months after the founding of the English settlement of Jamestown, ...