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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)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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From a corner perch on the 27th floor of a skyscraper, Rolfe, who runs Tennessee’s Department of Economic & Community Development, surveys the city landscape as he works to bring new business here.

From Time

On Wednesday, Atlanta’s Civil Service Board reversed the decision and reinstated Rolfe, concluding that city leaders had not afforded him due process.

Brooks ran from Rolfe and his partner and fired a Taser that he had wrestled from the partner.

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

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

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

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

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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