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She would have bee around 12-13; since she was born in 1595 and he was captured in 1607 and released sometime after but correspondence shows he was around in 1608.
Also in Smith's accounts he describes her as looking ten in one yet 12-13 in another.
It is somewhat historically in doubt that she actually interceded for him with her father, the chief.
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CoachShe didn't . Smith wrote this in his book and made it up. She was dead by the time the book was published so she couldn't tell her side. Smith was the type of man who tried to make his life bigger in history than it was. He was great on self promotion and his account became part of history.
>The story we know is not true. Actually the colonist landed in an area of 14,000 Native Americans and in the worse land in the area. Powhatan pretty much left them alone. I think he figured that they would die from the bad water and disease . He was fairly right. Within 6 months there were only 34 men left alive of the 104 who came. It wasn't until after his death that the brother of Powhatan attacked the colony. The story about Smith is also not true. He did NOT save Jamestown. He was only there a very few months and he lied about his contribution to the settlement in a book he wrote several years later. He also made up the story about Pocahontas and she died young so couldn't refute his story. The man who did save Jamestown was the husband of Pocahontas and gave tobacco seeds to the colony. That was John Rolfe.
The problem with the story of Captain John Smith being saved from execution by Pocahontas is that we only have Smith's testimony that it ever happened - and he didn't even mention it until almost 10 years after it was supposed to have happened (1607). Smith also later recounted a story about being rescued (by a young girl!) from execution by Turks in 1602 in Hungary . . . there is something extremely suspicious about his memory for events and his economic use of the truth.
As for the age of Pocahontas, native birth dates were not recorded and can only ever be estimated. If she were born in 1595, as some people suggest, she would have been 11 or 12 in 1607 when she (perhaps) saved Smith's life.
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What did Pocahontas do to be a hero?
As far as I know Pocahontas was actually named Matoaka she was nicknamed pocahontas. She had saved the life of John Smith when she kept her father from clubbing him to death when she was about 10 or 11 years old.
Powhatan spared john Smith's life because?
because Pocahontas risked her life for smith Answer: Pocahontas, correctly called Matoaka, was just 10 years old when John Smith visited Powhatan. Smith was actually believed to be treated very well while visiting It is only after Matoaka was long dead that he spread three separate and conflicting stories about how Pocahontas saved his life.
When did Pocahontas meet john smith?
When Pocahontas was 12 years old. Pocahontas was 12 years old in 1607.
Is capt john smith and john wolf the same person in the story of Pocahontas?
You're probably referring to John Rolfe, who should not be confused with John Smith. Captain John Smith was the colonial governor who was captured. He was released by Powhatan, perhaps after intervention by Powhatan's 12-year-old daughter Pocahontas. John Rolfe is the English gentleman whom Pocahontas later married.
What year did John Smith meet Pocahontas?
John Smith never married Pocahontas. In fact, Pocahontas is only a nickname given to Matoaka meaning playful. When John Smith visited the Powhatan tribe he actually was treated very well. Matoaka was about 11 years old at the time. When Pocahontas was 17, she was abducted and imprisoned in Jamestown for a year. She was released after she agreed to marry John Rolfe. They had a son Thomas Rolfe and Matoaka, then known by the name of Rebecca Rolfe, died at the age of 22 in March of 1617.
