Jamestown’s leaders soon discarded the plan of using her in a prisoner exchange and instead now saw her as their key to success.Ī young puritan minister named Alexander Whitaker instructed her about Christianity, and a man named John Rolfe began to fall in love with her. He forced the Patawomekes, the people who had sheltered Henry Spelman after he left Orapax, to trick her into going on to his ship and sailed away with her, so 14-year-old Pocahontas returned to Jamestown as a prisoner. As he entered the Potomac, he heard rumors that Pocahontas was visiting there and he made up his mind “to possess myself of her by any stratagem that I could use.” His plan was to exchange her for English men held by Powhatan. Samuel Argall was, as usual, looking for food. Little was heard from Orapax for a while. And he sent Thomas back to Jamestown, severing his last ties with the colony. Powhatan decided it was time for Pocahontas to enter adult life, so she married a man named Kocoum. Henry absconded to join a friendlier chief on the Potomac and Pocahontas intervened to save his life when her father sent men to bring him back. Everything changed while they were at Orapax, Powhatan’s new capital. Thomas Savage moved with the Powhatans, and was soon joined by another boy, 14-year-old Henry Spelman. Powhatan moved his capital farther west to a location much harder for the English to reach, and Pocahontas quit visiting the fort. Afterward, Powhatan called Smith his son. In his 1624 Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, Smith wrote that she risked her own life to save his, but modern scholars think she was probably playing a scripted role in some kind of adoption ceremony. Suddenly Pocahontas intervened and put her head on his. He was brought before the Great Powhatan, where he encountered men with clubs ready, he thought, to beat out his brains. Smith first met Pocahontas when he was captured a few weeks after the first colonists’ arrival in the area. Captain John Smith said her “wit, and spirit” made her stand out. She was the daughter of the Great Powhatan, who ruled over numerous client tribes in the Chesapeake, the region the Powhatans called Tsenacomaca, and he selected her for a special role because of her intelligence and personality. Pocahontas was an extremely talented and lively 10-year-old girl when Jamestown was founded in 1607. We all think we know Pocahontas, but her real story is very different from the popular image.
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