>on this side of the pond, what  Rolfe did was not so shocking, and might 
>even have been precedent- setting, easing the way for other Englishmen who 
>wanted to do the  same.

As others have suggested, I think what Rolfe did WAS shocking, for a variety 
of reasons.

It is not clear that many other Englishmen did want to do the same. Can 
anyone document a single marriage of an English male to a Native femaile in 
Virginia  in the decade following the Pocahontas-Rolfe wedding?

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