![]() ![]() All of its 150 people safely reached shore and salvaged much of the ship’s supplies for what would be a 10-month stay. In July a massive hurricane scattered the fleet, and the Sea Venture ran aground just off the Bermudas. The Sea Venture was the flagship of a convoy of 500 new settlers. On May 1609, John Rolfe boarded the Sea Venture left England bound for Virginia. Now if the vulgar sort, who square all men’s actions by the base rule of their own filthiness, shall tax or taunt me in this my godly labour: let them know, it is not any hungry appetite, to gorge my self with incontinency sure (if I would, and were so sensually inclined) I might satisfy such desire, though not without a seared conscience, yet with Christians more pleasing to the eye, and less fearful in the offence unlawfully committed. Shall I be of so untoward a disposition, as to refuse to lead the blind into the right way? Shall I be so unnatural, as not to give bread to the hungry? or uncharitable, as not to cover the naked? Shall I despise to actuate these pious duties of a Christian? Shall the base fears of displeasing the world, overpower and withhold me from revealing unto man these spiritual works of the Lord, which in my meditations and prayers, I have daily made known unto him? God forbid. condemn me herein, if my chiefest intent and purpose be not, to strive with all my power of body and mind, in the undertaking of so mighty a matter, no way led (so far forth as man’s weakness may permit) with the unbridled desire of carnal affection: but for the good of this plantation, for the honour of our country, for the glory of God, for my own salvation, and for the converting to the true knowledge of God and Jesus Christ, an unbelieving creature, namely Pokahuntas. Let therefore this my well advised protestation. John Rolfe on his decision to marry Pocahontas, in a letter to Sir Thomas Dale, governor of Virginia, 1614. the marriage resulted in a temporary peace with the Indians. John married Pocahontas in the spring of 1614. The tone suggests it was intended mainly for official records, but at some points Rolfe bared his true feelings. John Rolfe (1585-1622) explains in this letter his reasons for marrying Powhatan’s daughter, Pocahontas, to Sir Thomas Dale, the governor of Virginia. ![]()
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