... by a sea captain named Samuel Argall. Very little is known of the whereabouts of Pocahontas at this time. According to William Strachey, official secretary and historian of Jamestown, she married a warrior named Kocoum, who is also mentioned in Disney's Pocahontas. In the spring of 1613, Argall devised a plan to force Powhatan to drop his trading sanctions. He took Pocahontas hostage and ... taken ashore at Gravesend, where she died, probably the victim of a European disease like tuberculosis or pneumonia. Her father also died soon afterwards and his successor did not maintain the peace...

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