This is the Story of What Happened to the Real Pocahontas

After Pocahontas’s untimely death, her young son Thomas was left in the care of his only surviving parent, John Rolfe. But questions about Thomas’s true parentage had long shadowed the child’s existence, and Rolfe, ever focused on profit and ambition, made a cold decision.

When the boy was just five, Rolfe handed him over to his brother, Henry, effectively severing the tie. There were no heartfelt goodbyes or signs of paternal devotion. With his son behind in England, Rolfe set his sights back on Virginia, prioritizing tobacco, land, and wealth over the child he left behind. Thomas would grow up without either parent.