![]() ![]() ![]() Thereafter, John Smith and Pocahontas had a special, father-daughter relationship.īeginning in early 1608 Pocahontas led delegations of Indians who brought food to the near-starving Jamestown settlers. Soon after, she befriended the captured English captain John Smith and probably pleaded with her father to spare his life. These are the facts about Pocahontas that are known for sure.Īs a child in 1607, she played with the Jamestown settlers’ children in the streets of Jamestown. She appears stiff in Jacobean court attire, but the costume probably hid tattooing and provided the chaste image wanted by the Virginia Company, which sponsored her trip and probably commissioned the print. The only life portrait of Pocahontas (1595–1617) and the only credible image of her, was engraved by Simon Van de Passe in 1616 while she was in England, and was published in John Smith's Generall Historie of Virginia in 1624.
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