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  2. May 15, 2024 · John Smith, English explorer and early leader of the Jamestown Colony, the first permanent English settlement in North America. He played an equally important role as a cartographer and a writer who vividly depicted the natural abundance of the New World, encouraging prospective English settlers.

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  3. 6 days ago · Pocahontas is the name she is known by the most, but the real name of the Native American girl who John Smith claimed saved him from certain death in early colonial America was Matoaka. How she became known as Pocahontas, savior of John Smith, is perhaps a story of cultural and literary invention.

  4. May 3, 2024 · During the winter, Opechancanough captured Captain John Smith and brought him to Powhatan, who believed Smith to be the strangers’ leader (he was not, at that point). Powhatan put Smith through what probably was an “adoption” ceremony—Smith later credited Powhatan’s daughter Pocahontas with saving his life—to make him a subject ...

  5. May 13, 2024 · The popular legend is that Powhatan's 11-year-old daughter, Pocahontas, kept her father from killing Smith, possibly by shielding him from the executioner's axe with her own body. What is certain is that Powhatan did not have Smith killed and, in fact, Smith stayed with the tribe for a month, building up a relationship with Powhatan and his tribe.

  6. 2 days ago · Pocahontas is a 1995 American animated musical historical drama film based on the life of Powhatan woman Pocahontas and the arrival of English colonial settlers from the Virginia Company. The film romanticizes Pocahontas's encounter with John Smith and her legendary saving of his life.

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    • Jim Pentecost
  7. May 14, 2024 · By 1610 Captain John Smith’s place in United States history was already assured. He had served as “presidentof Americas first permanent colony in Virginia, explored the Potomac River, and had his famous encounter with the 14-year old Native American "princess" Pocahontas.

  8. May 12, 2024 · Pocahontass conversion to Christianity subsequently enabled her marriage to John Rolfe on the 5th of April 1614. She would have been seventeen or eighteen years old. However, she maintained a lasting friendship with Captain John Smith (above left and right) who had returned to England. He met her there just before she died.

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