After the English kidnapped her and killed her Native American husband when she was age 15, she became the most important woman in colonial America. She was the first Native American to convert to Christianity and be baptized (1614), and the first to marry an Englishman, John Rolfe, in a church wedding ceremony (1614). Her marriage led to the Peace of Pocahontas which assured the success of the first permanent English settlement in America long before the Massachusetts colony. She was the toast of London in 1616 and 1617 before her untimely death at age 19.
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