Claim: Pocahontas had a relationship with a Portuguese settlement.
Evidence: Pocahontas -LRB- born Matoaka , known as Amonute , 1596 -- 1617 -RRB- was a Native American woman notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown , Virginia.
In 1607 the London Company established the Colony of Virginia as the first permanent New World English colony.