Cockacoeske
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Cockacoeske was a 17th-century leader, titled weroansqua, of the Pamunkey in what is now the U.S. state of Virginia and asserted herself as Mamanatowick of the Confederacy. During her thirty-year reig
Statue of Cockacoeske included in the Virginia Women's Monument.
Signatures to the Treaty of Middle Plantation 1677
Nathaniel Bacon was an English merchant adventurer who settled in the Virginia Colony, where he sat on the Governor's Council. In early 1676 he led Bacon's Rebellion against the Virginia government. T
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…Indian Reservation). The biggest threat to peace during her rule came during Bacon's Rebellion, a multiracial uprising of disaffected groups led by Nathaniel Bacon. Although of the wealthy planter class, Bacon competed for power with Gov. Berkeley, drawing upon resentments among frontier settlers about poor land…
Illustration of Bacon in Jamestown c. 1896
Signing of Bacon's commission
Burning of Jamestown pp 102 historyofvirgini 00maginn 0116