According to an account Smith published in 1624, he was going to be put to death until the chief's daughter, Pocahontas, saved him.

Baptism of Pocahontas was painted in 1840.

Jefferson's son-in-law, Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr. was a lineal descendant of Pocahontas.

She was also a lineal descendant of Pocahontas.

Kimball's interest in geology was instrumental in the development of the Pocahontas coalfields in western Virginia and West Virginia.

The New World, which featured a romantic interpretation of the story of John Smith and Pocahontas, was released in 2005.

In Pocahontas, he was going to voice a turkey named Redfeather.

He was also the father of Pocahontas, whom colonists perceived as friendly.

Wittontown, north of the river, was settled in 1749, and became incorporated as Pocahontas in 1752.

For years the center of the free black residential area was Pocahontas Island, a peninsula on the north shore of the Appomattox River.

John Rolfe, the widower of Pocahontas, wrote in a letter that he was at Point Comfort and witnessed the arrival of the first Africans.

Major Bolling was the son of Col. Robert Bolling and his first wife Jane Rolfe, who was granddaughter of the early colonist John Rolfe and his Native American wife, Pocahontas.

It was here that Pocahontas was buried after dying on a trip to England.

Ellisville, the county seat, was named for Powhatan Ellis, a member of the Mississippi Legislature who claimed to be a direct descendant of Pocahontas.

Pocahontas County was formed in 1851.

Drew Bowers, the Republican nominee for governor of Arkansas in 1926 and 1928, was originally from Pocahontas.

Named after Father James P. O ' Kean of St. Paul's Catholic Church in Pocahontas, O ' Kean was located around the St. Louis & Iron Mountain Railroad.

Local legend holds that Pocahontas was named the county seat through an act of trickery.

When the time came to vote, the only delegation that was not passed out or otherwise influenced, was that from Pocahontas.

* Wear Schoonover, Pocahontas native, was the first University of Arkansas athlete in any sport named to an all American team.

This city was named after the Englishman John Rolfe who married Pocahontas in Jamestown, Virginia.

The public offices and public buildings used for the creation of the government of Pocahontas County was located at what is now referred to as " Old Rolfe.

Pocahontas, Virginia was also the filming of a popular Maxwell House Coffee commercial in which several of the town's residents played extras.

While the KRLW & KIYS radio stations are broadcast centrally to the Walnut Ridge / Hoxie area ( a neighboring community roughly 15 miles away ), the actual broadcasting location as well as main offices are centered with KPOC inside of Pocahontas.

Pocahontas was the location of the start of this region's coal boom with a spur line that launched the Norfolk and Western Railroad ( now Norfolk Southern ) into national prominence during the 1880s.

Pocahontas, Virginia, a different location outside of Tazewell County, was added to Petersburg, Virginia in 1785.

The tradition was revived in the mid 1990s to publicize contemporary Disney feature animated films: Beauty and the Beast ( 1992 ), Aladdin ( 1993 ), The Lion King ( 1994 ), Pocahontas ( 1995 ), Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1996 ) and The Little Mermaid ( for its re-release, 1997 ).

She has had continued success in films such as The Bostonians ( 1984 ), Dune ( 1984 ), Silverado ( 1985 ), Eleni ( 1985 ), Waiting for the Moon ( 1987 ), She-Devil ( 1989 ), Kindergarten Cop ( 1990 ), If Looks Could Kill ( 1991 ), Rain Without Thunder ( 1992 ), Twenty Bucks ( 1993 ), Younger and Younger ( 1993 ), Prêt-à-Porter ( 1994 ), Pocahontas ( 1995 ), The Relic ( 1997 ), Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World ( 1998 ), Dragonfly ( 2002 ), Yours Mine and Ours ( 2005 ) and Stranger Than Fiction ( 2006 ).

Tolls were removed from all portions of the former Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike in 1992, although the road now connects with several newer locally oriented toll facilities, including Richmond Metropolitan Authority's Downtown Expressway ( State Route 195 ) which interchanges with the former Turnpike on the I-95 James River Bridge, and the Pocahontas Parkway ( State Route 895 ) which connects I-95 at exit 67 with Interstate 295 and the Richmond International Airport.

This was followed by successful features including Beauty and the Beast ( 1991 ) Aladdin ( 1992 ), and The Lion King ( 1994 ), the last of which had music by Elton John and Tim Rice, and Pocahontas ( 1995 ), all of which were awarded best song Oscars.

* " Savages ", a song from Pocahontas ( 1995 film )

He voiced Captain John Smith's shipmate, Ben, in Disney's animated film, Pocahontas.

The film is the first animated feature Disney film to be based on a real historic character, based on the known history and also the folklore and legend that surround the Native American woman Pocahontas, and features a fictionalized account of her encounter with Englishman John Smith and the settlers that arrived from the Virginia Company.

A video game based on the film was released across various platforms shortly after the film's theatrical release, and the film itself was followed by a direct-to-video sequel, Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World in 1998.

Gordon Tootoosis, who voiced Kekata the medicine man, acted as Chief Powhatan in Pocahontas: The Legend, which was released the same year as this film.

The film was harshly criticized by Chief Roy Crazy Horse as historically inaccurate and offensive for glossing over more negative treatment of Pocahontas and her tribe by the English.

Stapleton voiced John Rolfe's maid, Mrs. Jenkins in Disney's 1998 direct-to-video animated film Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World.

He then began working in film, collaborating with composer Alan Menken on the scores for the Disney animated features Pocahontas ( 1995 ), for which he received two Academy Awards, The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1996 ), and Pippi Longstocking ( 1997 ).

Menken is best known, however, for his work over the past two decades with Walt Disney Pictures scoring numerous films, including Disney animated classics The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Pippi Longstocking and Home on the Range, and most recently, Disney's 2010 animated film Tangled.

Hunt was chosen by Walt Disney Feature Animation to lend her enigmatic speaking and singing voice to Grandmother Willow in the film Pocahontas.

The film began pre-production after the release of Pocahontas in 1995.

The Powhatan people are featured in the Disney animated film Pocahontas ( 1995 ).

The Powhatan peoples generally criticize the film for continuing the myth of a romance between Pocahontas and John Smith.

* Argall ( voiced by Kevin Farrell ) appears in the Animated Hero Classics 1994 episode Pocahontas, but is absent in Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World, a direct-to-video sequel to the Disney animated film.

He was a voice actor in the animated film Pocahontas ( 1995 ) and its sequel Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World ( 1998 ), playing the title character's father, Chief Powhatan.

The character Thomas Rolfe appears as a child in the 2005 theatrical film The New World, but is absent in the 1998 Disney animated straight-to-video film Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World, a sequel to the 1995 motion picture.

She also recorded " If I Never Knew You ," a duet with Jon Secada, for the original soundtrack of Disney's 1995 film Pocahontas.

She has also participated in several Grammy Award-winning albums, sang the Academy Award-winning song " Colors of the Wind " on the hit soundtrack of the 1995 film Pocahontas, and is admired for her voice and interpretive skills.

Kuhn sang the title role in the 1995 Disney animated film, Pocahontas.