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05/09/2008
John Rolfe (1585-1622)English settler in Virginia
John Rolfe, was one of the first English setters in Virginia. He went to the colony of Jamestown around 1610 and is credited with developing the strain of tobacco that became Virginia's staple crop. In 1614 he married the Indian Princess Pocahontas, whom he later took to England. After her death (1617), Rolfe returned to America, where he was killed in a war with the Powhatan Indians in 1622.