Frances Culpeper Berkeley
Videos
Frances Stephens Berkeley Ludwell, most commonly styled Lady Berkeley after her second marriage, was a leader of the Green Spring faction of Virginia politics in the seventeenth century and wife to th
Portrait of Frances Culpeper Stephens Berkeley Ludwell by an unknown artist, c. 1660
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
Frances Culpeper Berkeley
…as "vigorous and energetic", she became a staunch defender of her husband, taking part in the events that led to Bacon's Rebellion, which was led by a distant relative of hers; she traveled to England and petitioned to the King on Berkeley's behalf. When commissioners were sent to investigate her husband's activities, she had…
Illustration of Bacon in Jamestown c. 1896
Signing of Bacon's commission
Burning of Jamestown pp 102 historyofvirgini 00maginn 0116