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
Illustration of Bacon in Jamestown c. 1896
Signing of Bacon's commission
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William Byrd I was an English-born Virginia colonist and politician. In Virginia, the spelling Byrd became standard, and several further generations of his descendants would share the same name, as we