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
James Rolfe (legislator) Schleisinger Weil, a Democrat from Schleisingerville. Matilda Rolfe died in 1859, by which time the two of them had had four children, three daughters and one son. Rolfe died on April 1, 1888 at the Rock County Asylum in Johnstown Center, Wisconsin. James Rolfe (legislator) James Rolfe (1821 – April 1, 1888) was an American farmer from Polk, Wisconsin who spent a single one-year term in 1855 as an independent member of the Wisconsin State Senate from the 4th District. Rolfe, born in Hillsboro, Massachusetts in 1821, was the son of Stephen and Mary A. (Reed) Rolfe. He came to