Pocahontas (now called Rebecca) arrives in England, with her husband, John Rolfe, their baby son, Thomas Rolfe, her sister Matachanna and brother-in-law "Tomocomo" (the shaman Uttmatomakkin).

The Virginia Colony's sponsors, finding it difficult to lure new colonists and investors to Jamestown, use Pocahontas as an enticement and as evidence to persuade people in Europe the New World's natives can be tamed, and the colony made safe.

Ten Powhatan Indians are brought by Sir Thomas Dale, the colonial governor, at the request of the Virginia Company, as a fund-raising stunt.

Dale, having been recalled under criticism, writes A True Relation of the State of Virginia, Left by Sir Thomas Dale, Knight, in May last, 1616 in a successful effort to redeem his leadership.

Neither Pocahontas or Dale will see Virginia again.

John Smith is living in London at the time and, while Pocahontas is in Plymouth, she learns he is still alive.

Smith does not meet Pocahontas at this point but, he writes a letter to Queen Anne urging Pocahontas be treated with respect as a royal visitor, because if she were treated badly, her "present love to us and Christianity might turn to… scorn and fury", and England might lose the chance to "rightly have a Kingdom by her means".