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After this incident, Pocahontas and Smith would not meet again for eight years. After suffering a serious leg wound, Smith set sail back to England in 1609 and was replaced by a sea captain named Samuel Argall. Very little is known of the whereabouts of Pocahontas at this time. According to William Strachey, official secretary and historian of Jamestown, she married a warrior named Kocoum, who is also mentioned in Disney's Pocahontas.
In the spring of 1613, Argall devised a plan to force Powhatan to drop his trading sanctions. He took Pocahontas hostage and used her as a pawn in peace negotiations with her father. The girl .
remained in the Jamestown settlement for a year, where she was taught English and schooled in white customs. More importantly, she was converted to Anglicism, baptized by Reverend Alexander Whitaker and given the Christian name Rebecca'. Pocahontas' conversion to Christianity was of great importance to the English, since they used their efforts to save the souls of the heathen' natives as a justification for their invasion of North America. .
In Jamestown, Pocahontas also met John Rolfe, a tobacco farmer and devout Christian. Rolfe asked the governor of the Virginia colony and Powhatan for permission to marry Pocahontas. Both agreed and the couple was married in 1614. Whether this marriage was purely diplomatic or love played a part in it, it was certainly a success, since it - temporarily - ended the hostilities between the Indians and the English, and ushered in a period now known as the Peace of Pocahontas'. After Pocahontas gave birth to a son, Thomas, the Virginia Company invited the young family on a tour to England. In 1616, they set sail to England, where Pocahontas would be introduced to the King, presented at court, and serve as a successful advertisement for the Virginia Company. The curious English elite was extremely impressed by the Indian girl, whom they called la belle sauvage'.