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==Legacy== [[Image:Sedgeford portrait.jpg|thumb|right|175px|The [[Sedgeford Hall Portrait]], once believed to represent Pocahontas (also known as Matoaka) and her son, has been re-identified as being Pe-o-ka (wife of [[Osceola]]) and their son.]] Rolfe's daughter, Jane Rolfe, married [[Robert Bolling]] of [[Prince George County, Virginia|Prince George County]], [[Virginia]]; the couple's son, [[John Bolling]], was born on January 27, 1676. Jane Rolfe is said to have died shortly after giving birth.<ref name="Dorman"/> John Bolling married Mary Kennon, daughter of Richard Kennon and Elizabeth Worsham of Conjurer's Neck.<ref name="Dorman"/> John and Mary Bolling had six surviving children, each of whom married and had surviving children.<ref>Henrico County Deeds & Wills 1697β1704, p. 96</ref> The [[Sedgeford Hall Portrait]], now in [[King's Lynn]] Town Hall, once believed to represent Pocahontas and her son Thomas Rolfe, has been re-identified as being Pe-o-ka, wife of the [[Seminole]] leader [[Osceola]], and their son.<ref>Navab, Valorie. American Indian Summer 2013. Smithsonian Institution. http://content.yudu.com/A2702l/Summer2013/resources/40.htm</ref> The birth of Thomas Rolfe, as he was both of European and Native American descent, reinstated peace between the Powhatans and the European settlements. Early in his career as deputy governor, Argall reported in a letter published within the Virginia Company Records that Powhatan "goes from place to place visiting his country taking his pleasure in good friendship with us laments his daughter's death but glad her child is living so doth [[Opchanacanough|Opachank]]".<ref name=Price /> Thomas Rolfe is the eleventh-great-grandfather of actor, [[Edward Norton]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/edward-norton-discovers-hes-actually-related-to-pocahontas | title=Edward Norton Discovers He's Actually Related to Pocahontas | website=[[The Daily Beast]] | date=3 January 2023 }}</ref>
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