Whilst relations between the colonists and #Powhatan were cordial at first, conflicts gave rise to the #AngloPowhatanWars from 1609 onwards. During this time, #Matoaka was kidnapped and put on board an English ship. But it was here she met the widowed tobacco trader, #JohnRolfe.

After being baptised, she was disowned by her people and set sail with #Rolfe for #England. There she was introduced at the court of #JamesVI and I, but died at the age of twenty-one in #Gravesend, #Kent.

Then having tane ane dry and wethered strae
In deip despair, and in ane lofty rage
She sprang up heigh, outfleing every fae
Syne to Panchaeia came, to change her age
Upon Appollo's altar...

(Then having taken a dry and withered staw / In deep despair and in a lofty rage / She sprang up high, outflying every foe / Soon to Panchaea came, to change her age / Upon Apollo's alter...)

#MiddleScots #JamesVI #poetry