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
Chalk, Kent Chalk, Kent Chalk is chiefly a suburb but also a civil parish which adjoins the east of Gravesend, Kent, England. As is intuitive, its name comes from the Saxon word "cealc" meaning a chalkstone. One layer of the chalk carries "flints", stones embedded in the chalk, and these were used in building and in providing the means of fire for "muskets". The stone is often cut to provide a flat edge as a craft known as "flint-knapping". The trade was worked in Chalk from the 17th century onwards. Gun-flints were produced here in large quantities until the early 19th century.