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John Rolfe
John Rolfe was an English settler in the Colony of Virginia who introduced a sweeter strain of tobacco around 1612, giving the colony a profitable export crop. His marriage to Pocahontas, daughter of the paramount chief Wahunsenacah, in 1614 brought a period of peace between the English and the Powhatan. He died in Virginia in 1622.
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