Americans in the United Kingdom 1586. He had his baptism at Saint Mary the Virgin's Church in March 1588. He died from influenza in Grenville's house on 2 April 1589. His interment was at that same church five days later. Raleigh was the first Native American to have a Christian conversion and an English resting place. Chief Powhatan's daughter, Pocahontas spent some of her life in London two years after she married English colonist John Rolfe. At age twenty-one, Pocahontas died due to an unknown disease. She was buried at St George's Church in Gravesend afterwards. Her son Thomas Rolfe lived in England until the
Gravesend, Brooklyn of salt marsh wetlands and sandhill dunes along the shore of Gravesend Bay. The Town of Gravesend was annexed by the City of Brooklyn in 1894. The derivation of the name "Gravesend" is unclear. Because of the association with Lady Moody, some speculate that it was named after the English seaport of Gravesend, Kent. But an alternative explanation suggests that it was named by the Dutch governor general Willem Kieft for the Dutch settlement of " 's'Gravesande" in the Netherlands, which means "Count's Beach" or "Count's Sand". There is also a town in the Netherlands called 's-Gravenzande. The modern neighborhood