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Note that there are some "people profiles" in the main category, which is appropriate if they are known to have been involved in the Rebellion but sources and current knowledge cannot determine whether they were Rebels, Loyalists, Victims, or Reinforcements (the four subcategories).

Bacon's Rebellion

1676 uprising of Virginia Colony residents led by Nathanial Bacon in an attempt to drive out all the Indians in Virginia. Bacon burned Jamestown to the ground on September 19, 1676. On October 26th, 1676, Bacon abruptly died of the "Bloodie Flux" and "Lousey Disease" (body lice). Shortly after Bacon's death, Virginia Governor Sir William Berkeley regained complete control and hanged the major leaders of the rebellion. All in all, twenty-three persons were hanged for their part in the rebellion. Later after an investigating committee from England issued its report to King Charles II, Berkeley was relieved of the Governorship and returned to England where he died in July 1677.[1]

Resources

The following links are more useful in a genealogical sense than those of the next section ("Information")

Information

Explanations and analyses of Bacon's Rebellion
See also "Virtual Jamestown" First Hand Accounts: A List of Those That Have Been Executed for the Late Rebellion in Virginia. Sir William Berkeley, Governor of the Colony.

Southern Colonies project

The category Bacon's Rebellion was created to help tell the story of colonists in Virginia.

Rebellion subcategories

Please include people in one of the four subcategories (instead of directly under Bacon's Rebellion) by copying the appropriate category below into their profile:

Rebels - Bacon's Rebellion

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One of four subcategories (along with Loyalists, Victims, and Reinforcements) under the category Bacon's Rebellion. See links on the free-space page "Bacon's Rebellion". The following are repeated here for your convenience:

Loyalists - Bacon's Rebellion

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One of four subcategories (along with Rebels, Victims, and Reinforcements) under the category Bacon's Rebellion. See links on the free-space page "Bacon's Rebellion". The following are repeated here for your convenience:

Victims - Bacon's Rebellion

One of four subcategories (along with Rebels, Loyalists, and Reinforcements) under the category Bacon's Rebellion.

This category consists primarily of the Council members' wives who were captured by Bacon's troops and made to stand on the breastworks at Jamestown in white aprons so they could be recognized by their husbands when Bacon besieged Jamestown, thereby causing Gov. Berkeley to cease his cannonade against the rebels. A painting by Charles Waterhouse is titled "White Apron Ladies of 1676" - as they were called by men on both sides of the battle.

~Southside Virginia Families, Volume I, by John Bennett Boddie, reprinted for Clearfield Company Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1991, 1996, 1999, 2003, pgs. 18-19

Although these women could probably have been confidently included among the Loyalists, others in the area who were adversely affected by the rebellion might not have made public their position. They are also included in this category.

Reinforcements - Bacon's Rebellion

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This category is for the 100 or so troops who settled in the Colonies after being sent as reinforcements in response to Bacon's Rebellion (described in a comment in this G2G discussion).

One of four subcategories (along with Loyalists, Rebels, and Victims) under the category Bacon's Rebellion. See links on the free-space page "Bacon's Rebellion". The following is repeated here for your convenience:

Additional Information

A recent G2G discussion included some additional resources. Please see this comment in that discussion.

The sources mentioned:
  • "The Calendar of State Papers: Colonial Series, America and West Indies 1677-1680", no. 303, p. 105.
  • The statutes at large: being a collection of all the laws of Virginia... by W.W. Hening, vol 2, p. 545-546.
  • Ann Cotton's account of the rebellion, here.

Also in that discussion, the following "match up" of information about three of the four men Berkeley executed at York was made from Berkeley's list and the list compiled by Kevin Frazier:

"at York whilst I lay there" (Berkeley's list):
  1. One Young, commissionated by Genl. Monck long before he declared for ye King.
  2. One Page, a carpenter, formerly my servant, but for his violence used against the Royal Party, made a Colonel.
  3. One Harris, that shot to death a valiant loyalist prisoner.
  4. One Hall, a Clerk of a County but more useful to the rebels than 40 army men--that dyed very penitent confessing his rebellion against his King and his ingratitude to me.[2]
Whether or not Berkeley recalled the name "Harris" correctly is the subject of the G2G comment. Comparing info from Berkeley's list and Frazier's list doesn't help ID which Harris was executed at York, but there is only one each of the other surnames in Frazier's list & the descriptions match:
  1. Thomas Hall of New Kent - county clerk; hanged; court-martialed on Martin's Ship
  2. Henry Page - carpenter; hanged
  3. Frazier's list has three Harrises, none of which are noted to have shot a prisoner.
  4. Thomas Young of James City - hanged; with Cromwell in English Civil War

Additional information about Thomas Young is found in Tyler's Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography:

'Young, Thomas, was son of Captain Thomas Young, who was uncle of George Evelyn, commander of Kent Island, Maryland. He served in the parliamentary wars under General Monk, and afterwards came to Virginia, where his father had a farm on the Chickahominy, in James City county. He sided with Nathaniel Bacon Jr. in 1676, and being captured by Berkeley was executed January 12, 1677. He was known as "Captain Young of Chickahominy."'

See also this older G2G post, which announced the creation of the categories:

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/95680/did-you-have-an-ancestor-who-participated-bacons-rebellion?show=1052432#c1052432

Footnotes

  1. ↑ US National Park Service article on Bacon's Rebellion (accessed 12 June 2020).
  2. ↑ Tyler's Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography:
    'Hall, Thomas, clerk of New Kent county, in 1676. He took sides with Nathaniel Bacon, and was executed by Sir William Berkeley, who said that his pen was worth to Bacon "forty armed men."'






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Smith-32867 Jillaine Smith
Thanks for doing this. Now... how to categorize...? (not my strong point...) Also, please add the US Southern Colonies to the TL? Many thanks and great work!
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Noland-165 Liz (Noland) Shifflett
added as manager & added [Category:Virginia Colony].
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