The Pamunkey tribe played “a vital role” with English colonists who arrived at Jamestown in 1607, according to the group’s website. Pocahontas, who was born around 1596, was the daughter of ...

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 ...

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, ...

By Paul Cross, Spiritual Reflections In nine days, this country will observe the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, Va. While not as celebrated as Columbus’ discovery of the New ...

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.