John Rolfe lived from 1585 to 1622 and was married to Pocahontas. His chief contribution to Virginia's economy was the cultivation of tobacco.
John Rolfe lived from 1585 to 1622 and was married to Pocahontas. His chief contribution to Virginia's economy was the cultivation of tobacco.
The strain of tobacco cultivated by Rolfe was the export cash crop that helped make the Virginia Colony profitable. It was the mainstay of the farming plantations for generations. Huge warehouses, such as those on Richmond's Tobacco Row, attest to its popularity. Even almost 400 years later, tobacco figures prominently in Virginia's economy.
john rolfe
she married john Rolfe and was the daughter of Chief Powhatan She moved to Virgina with him
John Rolfe is a major person because he married Pocahontas, daughter of the chief of the Powhatan Confederacy and also was the first to cultivate tobacco as an export crop from the Colony of Virginia.
No, not a political leader. He was however the first profitable tobacco planter in the Virginia Colonies. He was also the son-in-law of Wahunsenacawh, the chief of the Powhatan (local Native American tribe); Rolfe married Pocahontas, renaming her Rebecca when she was baptised.
John Rolfe was Pocahontas's husband. _________________________________________ He made tobacco in the 1600's He was primarily responsible for the development of commercial tobacco cultivation in Virginia and became the son-in-law of Powhatan.
Pocahontas, the daughter of Chief Powhatan, married English settler John Rolfe in 1614. Their marriage helped to establish a period of peace between the English settlers in Jamestown and the Powhatan Confederacy in Virginia.
The current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia is Cynthia D. Kinser.
The Amerindian chief's daughter who married John Rolfe was Pocahontas (birth name Matoaka).
the staue of chief Powhatan is at Jamestown, Virginia.
Yes, She was born sometime around 1595 in the Tidewater region of Virginia. She later moved to England and her status in England was a King's daughter(because her father was the Chief of his tribe)