John Smith, Generall Historie 1625
During this time, the Lady Rebecca, alias Pocahontas, daughter to Powhatan, by the diligent care of Master John Rolfe her husband and his friends, was taught to speake such English as might well bee understood, well instructed in Christianitie, and was become very formall and civill after our English manner; shee had also by him a childe which she loved most dearely, and the Treasurer and Company tooke order both for the maintenance of her and it, besides there were divers persons of great ranke and qualitie had beene very kinde to her; and before she arrived at London, 1 Captaine Smith to deserve her former courtesies, made her qualities knowne to the Queenes most excellent Majestie and her Court, and writ a little booke to this effect to the Queene.

1. Pocahontas arrived at Plymouth by June 3, 1616 (see Dale's letter, in Barbour, Pocahontas, 155), and went to London by coach (Purchas, Pilgrimes, IV, 1774). Smith, learning of her arrival, undoubtedly saw an opportunity to do something for her and at the same time promote his own interest. He had dedicated his Description of N.E. (just then at the bindery) to Prince Charles, to whom should he now appeal but to Queen Anne? As will be seen, this was not a superfluous gesture "so far as the interests of Pocahontas were concerned," as Alexander Brown would have it (The Genesis of the United States [Boston, 1890],II, 788n). Indeed, the Virginia Company as such treated "Mistress Rolfe" in anything but princely style.