Gravesend was granted, allowing the men of the town to operate boats between London and the town; these became known as the "Long Ferry". It became the preferred form of passage, because of the perils of road travel (see below). On Gravesend's river front are the remains of a Tudor fort built by command of King Henry VIII in 1543. On 21 March 1617, John Rolfe and Rebecca (aka Princess Pocahontas) with their two-year-old son, Thomas, boarded a ship in London bound for the Commonwealth of Virginia; the ship had only sailed as far as Gravesend before Rebecca fell fatally ill,
Sam Rolfe contribution in later life was to the "" episode "The Vengeance Factor" and the "" episode "". He died of a heart attack in 1993, aged 69, after collapsing while playing tennis. He was survived by his wife Hilda and two children. Sam Rolfe Samuel Harris "Sam" Rolfe (February 18, 1924 – July 10, 1993) was an American screenwriter best known for creating (with Herb Meadow) the high rated CBS television series "Have Gun – Will Travel", as well as his work on the 1960s NBC television series "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." and "The Eleventh Hour". Rolfe was born in