The History of the Americans #69 Jamestown and the Powhatans Part 11: London Town
It is late winter, 1616. When last we left our lovers, John and Rebecca Rolfe were in receipt of a request from the Virginia Company to come to London. They had a young son, Thomas, barely a year old, so this must not have been an easy decision to make.
This episode is about that trip to London in 1616 and 1617. The young family sailed in April 1616 on Samuel Argall’s frigate Treasurer, the same ship onto which Pocahontas had been lured and kidnapped three years before. In addition to the Rolfes, Powhatan’s son-in-law, Uttamatomakin, came along at the paramount chief’s behest to learn what he could of the English. And the English would learn a lot about them.
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References for this episode
Camilla Townsend, Pocahontas And The Powhatan Dilemma
David Price, Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation