On This Day June 12

The Virginia Company of London decided to bring the Native American princess Pocahontas to England as a symbol of the tamed New World "savage" and the success of the Jamestown settlement. Pocahontas and her husband John Rolfe arrived at the port of Plymouth on June 12, 1616, accompanied by a group of about eleven other Powhatans, including a holy man named Tomocomo.
Pocahontas died of smallpox in March 1617, the day before she was due to sail back to Virginia.

A 19th-century depiction

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