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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61788	Strange news from Virginia being a full and true account of the life and death of Nathanael Bacon, Esquire, who was the only cause and original of all the late troubles in that country : with a full relation of all the accidents which have happened in the late war there between the Christians and Indians.		1677 (1677)	Wing S5911; ESTC R15247	4,687	9

STRANGE NEWS FROM VIRGINIA Being a full and true ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE and DEATH OF Nathanael Bacon Esquire Who was the only Cause and Original of all the late Troubles in that COUNTRY With a full Relation of all the Accidents which have happened in the late War there between the Christians and Indians LONDON Printed for William Harris next door to the Turn-Stile without Moor-gate 1677. Strange News from Virginia being a full and true account of the Life and Death of Nathanael Bacon Esqiure who was the only Cause and Original of all the late Troubles in that Country THERE is no Nation this day under the copes of Heaven can so experimentally speak the sad Effects of men of great Parts being reduc't to necessity as England but not to rake up the notorious misdemeanours of the dead I shall endeavour to prevent the sad effects of so deplorable a Cause by giving you an account of the remarkable Life and Death of this Gentleman of whom I am about to discourse And because when a man has once ingag'd himself in an ill action all men are ready to heap an innumerable aspersions upon him of which he is no ways guilty I shall be so just in the History of his Life as not to rob him of those Commendations which his Birth and Acquisitions claim as due and so kind both to Loyalty and the wholsom constituted Laws of our Kingdom as not to smother any thing which would render him to blame This Gentleman who has of late becconed the attention of all men of understanding who are any ways desirous of Novelty or care what becomes of any part of the World besides that themselves live in had the honour to be descended of an Ancient and Honourable Family his Name Nathanael Bacon to which to the long known Title of Gentleman by his long study in the Inns of Court he has since added that of Esquire He was the Son of Mr. Thomas Bacon of an ancient Seat known by the denomination of Freestone-Hall in the County of Suffolk a Gentleman of known loyalty and ability His Father as he was able so he was willing to allow this his Son a very Gentile Competency to subsist upon but he as it proved having a Soul too large for that allowance could not contain himself within bounds which his careful Father perceiving and also that he had a mind to Travel having seen divers parts of the World before consented to his inclination of going to Virginia and accommodated him with a Stock for that purpose to the value of 1800 l. Starling as I am credibly informed by a Merchant of very good worth who is now in this City and had the fortune to carry him thither He began his Voyage thitherwards about Three years since and lived for about a years space in that Continent in very good repute his extraordinary parts like a Letter of recommendation rendring him acceptable in all mens company whilst his considerable Concerns in that place were able to bear him out in the best of Society These Accomplishments of mind and fortune rendred him so remarkable that the worthy Governour of that Continent thought it requisite to take him into his Privy Council That Plantation which he chose to settle in is generally known by the name of Curles situate in the upper part of James River and the time of his Revolt was not till the beginning of March 1675 6. At which time the Susquo-hannan Indians a known Enemy to that Country having made an Insurrection and kild divers of the English amongst whom it was his fortune to have a Servant slain in revenge of whose death and other dammages he received from those turbulent Susquohanians without the Governour 's consent he furiously took up Arms against them and was so fortunate as to put them to flight but not content therewith the aforesaid Governour hearing of his eager pursuit after the vanquisht Indians sent out a select Company of Souldiers to command him to desist but he instead of listning thereunto persisted in his Revenge and sent to the Governour to intreat his Commission that he might more chearfully prosecute his design which being denyed him by the Messenger he sent for that purpose he notwithstanding continued to make head with his own Servants and other English then resident in Curles against them In this interim the People of Henrica had returned him Burgess of their County and he in order thereunto took his own Sloop and came down towards James Town conducted by thirty odd Souldiers with part of which he came ashore to Mr. Laurences House to understand whether he might come in with safety or not but being discovered by one Parson Clough and also it being perceived that he had lined the Bushes of the said Town with Souldiers the Governour thereupon ordered an allarm to be beaten through the whole Town which took so hot that Bacon thinking himself not secure whilst he remained there within reach of their Fort immediately commanded his men aboard and tow'd his Sloop up the River which the Governour perceiving ordered the Ships which lay at Sandy-point to pursue and take him and they by the industry of their Commanders succeeded so well in the attempt that they presently stopt his passage so that Mr. Bacon finding himself pursued both before and behind after some capitulations quietly surrendred himself Prisoner to the Governours Commissioners to the great satisfaction of all his Friends which action of his was so obliging to the Governour that he granted him his liberty immediately upon Paroll without confining him either to Prison or Chamber and the next day after some private discourse passed betwixt the Governour the Privy Council and himself he was amply restored to all his former Honours and Dignities and a Commission partly promised him to be General against the Indian Army but upon farther enquiry into his Affairs it was not thought fit to be granted him whereat his ambitious mind seem'd mightily to be displeas'd insomuch that he gave out that it was his intention to sell his whole concerns in Virginia and to go with his whole Family to live either in Merry-land or the South because he would avoid as he said the scandal of being accounted a factious person there But this resolution it seems was but a pretence for afterwards he headed the same-Runnagado English that he formerly found ready to undertake and go sharers with him in any of his Rebellions and adding to them the assistance of his own Slaves and Servants headed them so far till they toucht at the Occonegies Town where he was treated very civilly and by the Inhabitants informed where some of the Susquohanno's were inforted whom presently he assails and after he had vanquished them slew about seventy of them in their Fort But as he returned back to the Occoneges he found they had fortified themselves with divers more Indians than they had at his first arrival wherefore he desired Hostages of them