Rolfe

[ rolf ]

noun

1. John, 1585–1622, English colonist in Virginia (husband of Pocahontas).

Rolfe

/ rɒlf /

noun

1. RolfeFrederick William18601913MBritishWRITING: novelist Frederick William , also known as Baron Corvo . 1860–1913, British novelist. His best-known work is Hadrian the Seventh (1904)

Example Sentences

Hamo in alluding to the early cultivation of tobacco by the colony, says, that John Rolfe was the pioneer tobacco planter.

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Pocahontas had met and had become well acquainted with John Rolfe during her captivity at Jamestown.

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Rolfe became the first white man to raise tobacco successfully in Virginia.

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John Rolfe converted the young prisoner, and made her his wife as soon as she had been baptized.

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But Rolfe wished nothing of the kind, and after growing tobacco for a while, he took his Indian wife to England.

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