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Title: Bacon's Rebellion, 1676

Author: Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

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BACON'S REBELLION, 1676

by

THOMAS J. WERTENBAKER
Edwards Professor of American History, Emeritus
Princeton University

Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation
Williamsburg, Virginia
1957

Copyright(C), 1957 by
Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration
Corporation, Williamsburg, Virginia

Second Printing, 1959
Third Printing, 1964

Jamestown 350th Anniversary
Historical Booklet, Number 8

[Illustration: From Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson, Torchbearer
of the Revolution
Map of Virginia at the time of Bacon's Rebellion]

BACON'S REBELLION, 1676

The months just preceding the year 1676 were marked in Virginia by
ominous signs of disaster. A great comet streamed through the sky
"like a horsetail," and it was well known that that meant pestilence
or war. Then came tens of thousands of pigeons, stretching across the
sky as far as the eye could see. They w