63
They choose Nathan Bacon, Jr., for their leader, 63
97. He heads them, and sends to the governor for a commission, 64
98. He begins his march without a commission, 64
The governor sends for him, 65
99. Bacon goes down in a sloop with forty of his men to the
governor, 65
100. Goes away in a huff, is pursued and brought back by governor, 65
101. Bacon steals privately out of town, and marches down to the
assembly with six hundred of his volunteers, 65
102. The governor, by advice of assembly, signs a commission to Mr.
Bacon to be general, 66
103. Bacon being marched away with his men is proclaimed rebel, 66
104. Bacon returns with his forces to Jamestown, 66
105. The governor flies to Accomac, 66
The people there begin to make terms with him, 67
106. Bacon holds a convention of gentlemen, 67
They propose to take an oath to him, 67
107. The forms of the oath, 67
108. The governor makes head against him, 69
General Bacon's death, 69
109. Bacon's followers surrender upon articles, 69
110. The agents compound with the proprietors, 69
111. A new charter to Virginia, 70
112. Soldiers arrive from England, 70
113. The dissolution by Bacon's rebellion, 70
114. Commissioners arrive in Virginia, and Sir William Berkeley returns
to England, 71
115. Herbert Jeffreys, esq., governor, concludes peace with Indians, 71
116. Sir Henry Chicheley, deputy governor, builds forts against
Indians, 71
The assembly prohibited the importation of tobacco, 72
117. Lord Colepepper, governor, 72
118. Lord Colepepper's first assembly, 72
He passes several obliging acts to the country,