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American Indian princess alleged to have
saved the life of John Smith, the English
colonist (later president of Virginia
1608-09), when he was captured by her father
Powhatan. She married an Englishman, John
Rolfe, in 1614 and has many modern US
descendants. She died of smallpox in
Gravesend, Kent.