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
Milton-next-Gravesend Milton-next-Gravesend Milton-next-Gravesend is an ecclesiastical parish in the north-west of Kent, England. Feudal ownership of land in the parish was the subject of a legal action of 1076, Abbot Scotland v Hamo the Sherrif, seeing St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury take back its stake in ownership. Neighbouring Gravesend became a town under Royal Charter in the 13th century including Milton. The Church of England's founding was heralded by Henry VIII's split with Rome and the Dissolution of the Monasteries by which all of the abbots were retired and their institutions' endowments such as in this parish were confiscated from them. Much