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I had read about Pocanontas going to Jamestown the first time naked. She was pretty young--I seem to recall one source which put her age at that time as 9, but Wikipedia has her born ca. 1595, which would put her about 12. John Smith left in the fall of 1609 and never returned to Jamestown--so she might have been 14 when he left.

William Byrd reports an Indian mother hinting that she would have let her daughter sleep with him if she had been a year older. The Indians of that region apparently saw nothing wrong with premarital sex, but evidently had strong views on when a person was too young, and Pocahontas may have fallen into that category during the time that Capt. John Smith was in Virginia.