John Rolfe progressive development at Henricus. The first harvest of four barrels of tobacco leaf was exported from Virginia to England in March 1614. Soon afterwards, Rolfe and others were exporting vast quantities of the new cash crop. New plantations began growing along the James River, where export shipments could use wharfs along the river. Rolfe married Pocahontas, daughter of the local Native American leader Powhatan, on 5 April 1614. A year earlier, Alexander Whitaker had converted Pocahontas to Christianity and renamed her "Rebecca" when she had her baptism. Richard Buck officiated their wedding. Powhatan gave the newlyweds property just across the
George Rolfe George Rolfe Hon. George Rolfe (1808 – 18 December 1871) M.L.C., was a merchant and politician in the Colony of Victoria (a state of Australia since 1901). Rolfe was born in Tenterden, Kent in 1808 where his father was a prosperous landholder. He became a merchant in London, and after that business failed, he emigrated to South Australia in 1848, and arrived in Adelaide on 24 June 1849 and started a partnership in land real estate with P. D. Prankerd, dissolved May 1851. He moved to Victoria, arriving in May 1854. Rolfe was the founder of one of the leading