 Heacham has historic ties to Matoaka (better known as "Pocahontas"), who married John Rolfe, a native of this village on 5 April 1614 at a church in Jamestown, Virginia.Rolfe took his wife, Rebecca (Pocahontas), and their two-year-old son, Thomas, to visit his family at Heacham Hall in 1616, but settled in Brentford.A year later, Rebecca died in Gravesend, when John was going to return her to Virginia.