Camilla Townsend

While living at Passapatanzy, Pocahontas gave birth to a son, also named Kocoum, though others suggest that they had a daughter named Kaokaok.

Yet other historians have questioned whether Pocahontas could realistically have given birth to a child at this time, given her young age.

While these developments were occurring in Pocahontas' own world, the English continued their efforts to expand from Jamestown, and by early 1611, they had effectively eliminated the Paspahegh tribe and killed its chief.

As Virginia company officials in London wondered how to bring the other Indian tribes under English control, the idea of abducting a child of royal blood was proposed on more than one occasion.

In April 1614, Pocahontas accepted baptism into the Christian faith in a ceremony conducted by Whitaker.

She received the Christian name Rebecca, after the wife of Isaac in the Old Testament.

While the English believed that Pocahontas accepted the Christian teaching in full, some historians suggest that in accordance with other Indians who agreed to convert, she was incorporating the Christian God and Jesus Christ into her existing polytheistic pantheon of Powhatan gods.

In any case, Pocahontas' conversion subsequently enabled her marriage to John Rolfe on the 5th of April 1614.