John Rolfe

English settler and planter

1585 CE to 1622 CE

John Rolfe (c. 1585 – 1622) is one of the early English settlers of North America.

He is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Colony of Virginia and is known as the husband of Pocahontas, daughter of the chief of the Powhatan Confederacy.

No one knows what John Rolfe looked like; all portraits of him were made well after his death, and no descriptions of his appearance are extant.

In 1961, the Jamestown Foundation of the Commonwealth of Virginia (now the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation) offered a $500 award for "the best historical information" on Rolfe's "appearance and mannerisms".

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