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.