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Title: Illustrated standard guide to Norfolk and Portsmouth and historical events of Virginia 1607 to 1907
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Subjects: Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition (1907)
Publisher: Norfolk, Va., Standard lithographing and publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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rched on Jamestown with the deter-mination of securing the commission, and after an exciting scenethe Burgesses appointed Nathaniel Bacon commander-in-chiefagainst the Indians, and the appointment was ratified by Berke-ley. Bacon made his headquarters near West Point at the headof York River. Parties of horsemen were sent in every directionto scour the woods and ferret out the Indians. He was fightingthe public enemy, and doing his duty as an honest Virginian.That was not, however, the view taken by his angry adversaryand Governor Berkeley a second time proclaimed NathanielBacon and his followers rebels and traitors. This precipitateda war between the followers of Bacon and the adherents ofGovernor Berkeley, and Bacon marched on Jamestown in Sept-tember 1676, fought a battle with Governor Berkeleys followersand drove them out, after which he set fire to Jamestown andentirely destroyed it. Bacon was soon taken ill with fevercontracted from exposure during his marches about the country,
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122 HISTORICAL EVENTS OE VIRGINIA 123 and died October, 1676, in Gloucester, at the home of Major Pate.He was secretly buried by his friends, to prevent any possibilityof Governor Berkeley learning of his burial place, and the exactlocation of his grave remains a secret. We only know that hisbody lies in some remote spot of the woods of Gloucester, orsunk in the York by the weight of stones placed in his coffin. The rebellion ended with the death of Bacon, but governorBerkeley hunted down all those prominent as leaders, and exe-cuted nearly every one he could lay his hands upon. Sir Wil-liam Berkley returned to England, where he expired July 13,1677.In 1685, James II. ascended the throne as King of England.During the reign of James II. a seal was ordained for Virginia,but was not used until about the end of the century. It con-sisted of the English shield with the inscription En dat Virginiaquintum. In 1689, William and Mary became king and queen of Eng-land, succeeding James II. who

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