Heacham has historic ties to 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 . She was laid to rest at St George 's parish churchyard . After that , John returned to Virginia with Tomocomo . Samuel Argall commanded the ship . Thomas was guarded by Lewis Stukley and later adopted by John 's brother , Henry . John married Jane Pierce two years later . They soon had a daughter named Elizabeth . Perhaps John lost his life in the 1622 Native American massacre near Jamestown . The Rolfe family home , Heacham Hall , burned down in 1941
1622 Native American massacre
Indian massacre of 1622
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