Thomas Rolfe last recorded mention of Thomas Rolfe exists in a land patent from September 16, 1658. While some sources claim that Thomas died in 1680, others claim that the exact year is unknown. Some evidence purports that Thomas Rolfe died in James City County, Virginia, however the records of the county were destroyed in 1685 during a fire. Many non-Native people in the United States claim descent from Pocahontas through her son, Thomas Rolfe. Rolfe's birth was recorded as the first time a child was born to a Virginian Native American woman and an English man in Virginia's history. Moreover, many
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