Bacon's Rebellion
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Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion held by Virginia settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677. It was led by Nathaniel Bacon against Colonial Governor William Berkeley, after Berkeley refused Bacon's request to drive Native American Indians out of Virginia. Thousands of Virginians from all classes and races rose up in arms against Berkeley, chasing him from Jamestown and ultimately torching the settlement. The rebellion was first suppressed by a few armed merchant ships from London whose captains sided with Berkeley and the loyalists. Government forces arrived soon after and spent several years defeating pockets of resistance and reforming the colonial government to be once more under direct Crown control.
The Burning of Jamestown by Howard Pyle
Governor Berkeley baring his breast for Bacon to shoot after refusing him a commission (1895 engraving)
A 19th-century engraving depicting the burning of Jamestown
Ruins of Jamestown (1878 engraving).
Colony of Virginia
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The Colony of Virginia was an English, later British, colonial settlement in North America between 1606 and 1776.
The Indian massacre of 1622, depicted in a 1628 woodcut
Cover to a history of the Plantation of Virginia between 1612 and 1624, compiled by its planters
Lines showing the legal treaty frontiers between the Virginia Colony and Indian Nations in various years and today's state boundaries. Red: Treaty of 1646. Green: Treaty of Albany (1684). Blue: Treaty of Albany (1722). Orange: Proclamation of 1763. Black: Treaty of Camp Charlotte (1774). The area west of this line in present-day Southwest Virginia was ceded by the Cherokee in 1775.
Hanover County Courthouse (c. 1735–1742), with its arcaded front, is typical of a numerous colonial courthouse built in Virginia.