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
Burning of Jamestown pp 102 historyofvirgini 00maginn 0116
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
Nathaniel Bacon (Virginia colonist)
…In March, Berkeley had attempted to secure warriors from the Pamunkey tribe to fight hostile tribes pursuant to earlier treaties. The Pamunkey queen Cockacoeske passionately reminded the Governor's Council of the deaths 20 years ago of her husband and 100 warriors whom they had provided in a similar situation…
Statue of Cockacoeske included in the Virginia Women's Monument.
Signatures to the Treaty of Middle Plantation 1677