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Jamestown, Virginia, USA. In the lore of early Jamestown history, Pocahontas was a significant figure. This 1922 statue, by William Ordway Partridge, depicts her as a frequent visitor to the fort. Captain John Smith claimed she saved his life several times, though his story-telling and exaggerations make this unproven. A favorite daughter of Powhatan, the chief of his tribe, she came to the fort frequently in 1608-1609 with food for the colonists from her father. For four years after, she lived father away from the fort and was not seen by colonists. Captured by the British in 1613, she was brought to Jamestown as a hostage. There she converted to Christianity and a year later married John Rolfe, an event that stabilized relations between colonists and Indians for a period of time. With Rolfe, she traveled to England, was presented to the royal court, but never returned to Virginia, dying in 1617, and buried in England.