Pocahontas, the daughter of the Powhatan chief, married John Rolfe, an English tobacco planter, on April 5, 1614. This marriage followed her baptism into Christianity, where she took the name Rebecca. Their union was significant as it helped establish a period of peace between the English settlers and Powhatan's tribes, known as the "Peace of Pocahontas." They had a son named Thomas Rolfe in January 1615. The marriage was conducted with the consent of her father Powhatan and witnessed by her relatives and colonial officials

. There is some tradition and historical suggestion that Pocahontas may have been previously married to a Native American man named Kocoum before her marriage to Rolfe, but this is less documented and debated among scholars

. However, her well-documented and historically significant marriage was to John Rolfe.