Archaeologists discover remains of Jamestown colony's earliest leaders

The graves of four leading colonists, buried more than 400 years ago in America's first Protestant church where Pocahontas married, have been identified

Archaeologists have uncovered human remains of four of the earliest leaders of the English colony that would become America, buried for more than 400 years near the altar of what was America's first Protestant church in Jamestown, Virginia.

The four burial sites were uncovered in the floor of what's left of Jamestown's historic Anglican church from 1608, a team of scientists and historians announced on Tuesday. The site is the same church where Pocahontas married Englishman John Rolfe, leading to peace between the Powhatan Indians and colonists at the first permanent English settlement in America.