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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: Thames and Medway Canal, Pocahontas, Gravesend, Kent, Northfleet, Ebbsfleet United F.C., Gravesend Grammar School, Gravesham local elections, The White Horse at Ebbsfleet, Meopham, Higham, Kent, Dode, Kent, Saxon Shore Way, Gravesend Airport, Gravesend railway station, Gads Hill Place, Chalk, Kent, A226 road, Higham railway station, Kent, Istead Rise, Cobham, Kent, Gravesend Grammar School for Girls, Gravesend by-election, 1947, Northfleet Technology College, Denton Halt railway station, Singlewell or Ifield, Northfleet railway station, Rosherville Gardens, Windmill Hill, Kent, Luddesdown, Milton Range Halt railway station, Shorne, Sole Street railway station, Vigo, Kent, Meopham railway station, St George's Church, Gravesend, Cobham Hall, Milton Road Halt railway station, Milton-next-Gravesend, RAF Gravesend, Harvel, Springhead, New Tavern Fort, Gravesend Sailing Club, Thong, Kent, Royal Terrace Pier. Excerpt: Pocahontas (c. 1595 - March 21, 1617), later known as Rebecca Rolfe, was a Virginia Indian chief's daughter notable for having assisted colonial settlers at Jamestown. She converted to Christianity and married the English settler John Rolfe. After they traveled to London, she became famous in the last year of her life. She was a daughter of Wahunsunacawh, better known as Chief or Emperor Powhatan (to indicate his primacy), who headed a network of tributary tribal nations in the Tidewater region of Virginia (called Tenakomakah by the Powhatan). These tribes made up what is known as the Powhatan Chiefdom and spoke a language of the Algonquian family. Pocahontas's birth year is unknown, but some historians estimate it to have been around 1595 based on the accounts of Captain John Smith. In A True Relation of Virginia (1608), Smith described the Pocahontas he met in the spring of 1608 as being "a child of tenne y...
