Pocahontas (Powhatan, "playful one, ill-behaved child") was the **personal name of Matoaka, daughter of Chief Powhatan of the Tsenacommacah confederacy in what is now Virginia**. **Most famous for the disputed account that she saved the life of English colonist John Smith in 1607** — captured by the English in 1613, baptized Rebecca, married tobacco planter John Rolfe in 1614, and traveled to London where she was presented at court. **Died at age 21 in Gravesend, England** while preparing to return home; her descendants include the First Families of Virginia.
Subject of Disney's *Pocahontas* (1995) and Camilla Townsend's *Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma* (2004).
Pocahontas reduces to eight — the number of Powhatan princess.