Nathaniel Bacon (January 3 , 1647 – October 26, 1676) was an English merchant adventurer who emigrated to the Virginia Colony, where he sat on the Governor's...
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and a colonel Nathaniel Bacon (Virginia colonist) (1647–1676), first cousin of Virginia president (see previous), member of Virginia's lower house (House...
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Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion by Virginia settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677. It was led by Nathaniel Bacon against Colonial Governor...
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player Nathaniel Ayers (born 1951), American musician who is the subject of the 2009 film The Soloist Nathaniel Bacon (1647–1676), Virginia colonist who...
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around 1656 or 1657. Bacon's nephew and Virginia Colonist Nathaniel Bacon was named after him. By 1653, Bacon had moved to Virginia Colony. He settled in...
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Nathaniel Bacon (1647–1676), Virginia colonist and instigator of Bacon's Rebellion Nicholas Bacon (disambiguation) Nicholas Bacon (1510–1579), English politician...
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in her novel Oroonoko). The play purports to describe how the colonist Nathaniel Bacon and a volunteer force of Indian fighters temporarily succeeded...
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English colonists in Boston. July 30 – Virginia colonist Nathaniel Bacon and his makeshift army issue a Declaration of the People of Virginia, instigating...
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completes the oil painting, The Crossing at Nijmegen. January 2 – Nathaniel Bacon, Virginia colonist, rebel (d. 1676) January 6 Christian William I, Prince of...
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business with a special pass. Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor...
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Declaration of the People of Virginia, or simply the Declaration of the People, was a list of complaints issued by Nathaniel Bacon on July 30, 1676, in which...
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United States. Bancroft's description of the colonists, particularly White's infant granddaughter Virginia Dare, cast them as foundational figures in American...
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his wife Elizabeth, he was the father of Nathaniel Bacon (1647-1676), the Virginian colonist leader of Bacon's Rebellion. They also had a daughter. Elizabeth...
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William Byrd I (redirect from Byrd family of Virginia)
William Byrd I (1652 – December 4, 1704) was an English-born Virginia colonist and politician. He came from the Shadwell section of London, where his...
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of the colonists remains unknown. Sir Walter Raleigh, governor of Virginia (1585–1590, absentee) Sir Ralph Lane, governor of Roanoke (Virginia) (1585–1586)...
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Boston Brahmin (section Bacon)
writer Nathaniel Choate (1899–1965), artist, sculptor Coffin Family Originally of Newbury and Nantucket: Tristram Coffin (1604–1681), colonist, original...
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Indian incursions led the Virginia colonists to authorize Nathaniel Bacon to march against the Indians. The battle of Bacon’s Quarter Branch took place...
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William Berkeley (governor) (category Colonial governors of Virginia)
Virginia he implemented policies that bred dissent among the colonists and sparked Bacon's Rebellion. A favourite of King Charles I, the king first granted...
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August 3, at the house of Major Otho Thorpe at Middle Plantation, Nathaniel Bacon held a convention of the leading men, including four councillors. They...
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John George (1603–1679) was an early Virginia colonist, landowner, soldier, county court justice and legislative representative (politician). He served...
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Curles Neck Plantation (category Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia)
Revolutionary era. In the early 1670s, the property was owned by Nathaniel Bacon. The colonists in outlying locations such as those in Henrico and the Northern...
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leading to more confrontations with colonists. In 1676, several hundred working-class followers of Nathaniel Bacon, upset by Berkeley's refusal to retaliate...
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House of Burgesses (redirect from Virginia House of Burgesses)
Nathaniel Bacon. They enacted legislation designed to further popular sovereignty and representative government and to equalize opportunities. Bacon took...
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the son of merchant John Bland, became involved as Nathaniel Bacon's lieutenant during Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, for which he was hanged a year later...
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Marguerite d'Orléans, French noble (d. 1696) 1647 January 2 – Nathaniel Bacon, Virginia colonist, rebel (d. 1676) January 6 Christian William I, Prince of...
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Jamestown is burned/torched by Bacon's Rebellion forces October 1676: Nathaniel Bacon dies, marking a death knell to the rebellion Legislature temporarily...
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Berkeley's investment relied on. Nathaniel Bacon organized his own militia of settlers who retaliated against the Indians. Bacon became very popular as the...
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William Tayloe (planter) (category Tayloe family of Virginia)
Tayloe's death, Elizabeth Tayloe married Nathaniel Bacon (politician), cousin of Nathaniel Bacon (colonist). Through his nephew, Colonel William Tayloe...
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Pamunkey (category Native American tribes in Virginia)
Berkeley's refusal to come to the aid of colonists subjected to frequent raids and murder by natives. Bacon and other colonists, former indentured servants, were...
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Doeg people (category Native American history of Virginia)
raid in July 1675 that contributed to colonists' uprising in Bacon's Rebellion. The Doeg (or Dogue) tribe of Virginia were part of the coastal Algonquian...
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