Codice albumGBB-F-002255

Image IDGBB-F-002255-0000

1858 ca : Marriage of Pocahontas (Virginia, 1595 ca Gravesend, 21 march 1617) with Captain John Rolfe. Lithograph by Hohenstern, printed in Philadelphia by Published Joseph Hoover. Pocahontas (born Matoaka, and later known as Rebecca Rolfe, c. 1595 March 1617) was a Virginia Indian notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribal nations in the Tidewater region of Virginia. In a well-known historical anecdote, she is said to have saved the life of an Indian captive, Englishman John Smith, in 1607 by placing her head upon his own when her father raised his war club to execute him

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