Her son, Thomas Rolfe, who was brought up in England, returned at last to Virginia and lived out his life there with his wife and children.

Today no small host of Americans have for ancestress the daughter of Powhatan.

In England-in-America the immediate effect of the marriage was really to procure an Indian peace outlasting Pocahontas's brief life.
In Dale's years there rises above the English horizon the cloud of New France.

The old, disaster-haunted Huguenot colony in Florida was a thing of the past, to be mourned for when the Spaniard wiped it out--for at that time England herself was not in America.

But now that she was established there, with some hundreds of men in a Virginia that stretched from Spanish Florida to Nova Scotia, the French shadow seemed ominous.