Pocahontas was married twice

Pocahontas encountered John Rolfe while she was a guest at Henricus. After the Sea Venture's crash on the Summer Isles, popularly known as Bermuda, Rolfe's English-born wife Sarah Hacker and child Bermuda had perished en route to Virginia. And Pocahontas had a previous marriage with her first husband Kococum, who also passed away. In Virginia, Rolfe founded the plantation Varina Farms, where he developed a novel tobacco breed. He was a devout man who worried about the moral ramifications of marrying a pagan, even though Pocahontas had converted to Christianity and adopted the name Rebecca upon baptism. He detailed his love for Pocahontas and his conviction that he would be preserving her soul in a lengthy letter to the governor asking for permission to marry her.

The couple was married on April 5, 1614, most likely at Jamestown. They resided at Varina Farms, across the James River from Henricus, for two years. Thomas, their son, was conceived in January 1615. Name the "Peace of Pocahontas" lasted for eight years and was brought about by their marriage between the tribes of Powhatan and the Jamestown colonists. "Since the wedding, we have had cordial commerce and trade," Ralph Hamor wrote in 1615, "not just with Powhatan but also with his subjects around us." Because "a commoner" had "the audacity" to wed a "royal," the marriage caused controversy in the British court at the time.