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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 10 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bacon, Nathaniel, 1642- (search)
flecting mind. It was at this juncture that Bacon arrived in Virginia, and espoused the cause ofy among the people, and a deputation headed by Bacon petitioned him for leave to arm and protect thore), refused to grant this prayer. At this Bacon took fire. He knew the hidden cause of the reHouse represented the popular will. They gave Bacon a commission as general. but Berkeley refusedbly supported the governor in the matter, when Bacon. fearing treachery, retired to the Middle plarican colonies free and independent States. Bacon, so encouraged, immediately marched against thmonstrances. The news of this perfidy reached Bacon at his camp on the Pamunky River. He addressebrave and patriotic wife, Sarah, was then with Bacon. Mrs. Drummond did much to incite the Virginiorious, wicked rebel. Her husband proposed to Bacon to proclaim government in the colony abdicateds made the capital of Virginia (Williamsburg). Bacon had failed; yet those do not fail who die in a[15 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bacon's rebellion. (search)
Bacon's rebellion. See Bacon, Nathaniel.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Berkeley, Sir William, (search)
ated in power, he treated the principal abettors of the insurrection with harshness and cruelty. His King had proclaimed Bacon (the leader of the insurrection) a traitor, and sent an armament under Sir John Berry to assist in crushing the rebellionsent to America to suppress the aspirations of the people for freedom. Feeling strong, Berkeley pursued the adherents of Bacon with malignant severity until twenty-two of them were hanged. The first martyr was Thomas Hanford, a gallant young nativfore he could answer his young wife stepped forward and said, My provocations made my husband join in the cause for which Bacon contended; but for me, he had never done what he has done. Since what is done, she said, as she knelt before the governo for the murder of my father; and Berkeley was ordered to desist. But he continued to fine and imprison the followers of Bacon until he was recalled in the spring of 1677, and went to England with the returning fleet of Sir John Berry. The coloni
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cavaliers, (search)
d the bitter opposers of the Puritans. On the death of Charles I. (1649), they fled to Virginia by hundreds, where only, in America, their Church and their King were respected. They made an undesirable addition to the population, excepting their introduction of more refinement of manner than the ordinary colonist possessed. They were idle, inclined to luxurious living, and haughty in their deportment towards the common people. It was they who rallied around Berkeley in his struggles with Bacon (see Bacon, Nathaniel), and gave him all his strength in the Assembly. They were extremely social among their class, and gatherings and feastings and wine-drinking were much indulged in until poverty pinched them. They gave a stimulus to the slave-trade, for, unwilling to work themselves, they desired servile tillers of their broad acres; and so were planted the seeds of a landed oligarchy in Virginia that ruled the colony until the Revolution in 1775, and in a measure until the close of t
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Virginia, (search)
disbanded......1676 Alarmed colonists choose Nathaniel Bacon (born in Suffolk, England) as their leader; he,s them......May, 1676 Governor Berkeley proclaims Bacon a rebel......May 29, 1676 Bacon elected a member Bacon elected a member of the new Assem bly......1676 He is captured on his way to Jamestown, tried before the governor and council, and released on parole......June, 1676 Bacon before the Assembly asks the governor for pardon, which is granted......June 5, 1676 Bacon leaves Jamestown......June, 1676 He returns with 600 men and again demands this is ratified by the governor......June, 1676 Bacon, while engaged in a successful campaign against the ley......July 29, 1676 Governor, unable to resist Bacon, is compelled to retreat to Accomac......August, 167 governor returns to Jamestown......Sept. 7, 1676 Bacon marches to Jamestown and drives out the governor and Governor Berkeley retires again to Accomac, while Bacon suddenly sickens of a malignant fever, a result of e
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Virginia, (search)
West1627 to 1629 John Potts1629 John Harvey1629 to 1635 John West1635 to 1636 John Harvey1636 to 1639 Sir Francis Wyatt1639 to 1641 Sir William Berkeley1641 to 1652 Richard Bennett1652 to 1655 Edward Digges1655 to 1656 Samuel Matthews1656 to 1660 Sir William Berkeley1660 to 1661 Col. Francis Moryson1661 to 1668 Sir William Berkeley1663 to 1677 Sir Herbert Jeffreys1677 to 1678 Sir Henry Chicheley1678 to 1680 Lord Culpeper1680 to 1684 Lord Howard of Effingham1684 to 1688 Nathaniel Bacon1688 to 1690 Francis Nicholson1690 to 1692 Sir Edmund Andros1692 to 1698 Francis Nicholson1698 to 1705 Edward Nott1705 to 1706 Edmund Jennings1706 to 1710 Alexander Spotswood1710 to1722 Hugh Drysdale1722 to 1726 William Gouch1726 to 1749 Thomas Lee and1749 to 1752 Lewis Burwell.1749 to 1752 Robert Dinwiddie1752 to 1758 Francis Fauquier1758 to 1768 Lord Boutetourt1768 to 1770 William Nelson1770 to 1772 Lord Dunmore1772 to 1775 Provisional conventionfrom July 17, 1775, to J
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ware, William 1797-1852 (search)
Ware, William 1797-1852 Author; born in Hingham, Mass., Aug. 3, 1797; graduated at Harvard College in 1816 and at Harvard Divinity School in 1819; ordained in the Congregational Church and held pastorates in Massachusetts and New York. He was editor and proprietor of the Christian examiner in 1839-44. He wrote Lectures on the works and genius of Washington Allston; A memoir of Nathaniel Bacon, etc. He died in Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 19, 1852.
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 2: the historians, 1607-1783 (search)
trace the development of a political unit. New England did not have the only Indian wars in America, but she alone had worthy historians of them. The struggles of 1622 and 1642 in Virginia, the Tuscarora War in North Carolina, and the Yemassee War in South Carolina, to say nothing of the wars of the Iroquois in New York, were as worthy of historical description as the struggle known as King Philip's War in New England, but they found no pen to describe them for the contemporary public. Bacon's rebellion in Virginia was well narrated for posterity, but the narratives long remained in manuscript; and the important struggles between South Carolina and Georgia on the one side and Spanish Florida on the other have not to this day been made the subjects of adequate treatment in a readable form. In New England, on the other hand, historical effort for popular information was fairly abundant. Seven men appeared to describe the horrors of savage warfare, filling their pages with thri
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 7: colonial newspapers and magazines, 1704-1775 (search)
ing a stray volume or two along with stationer's supplies, Franklin gradually developed a book shop in his printing office. There was nothing unusual in this fact, by itself. His rival, Andrew Bradford, and many other printers in the colonies had odd collections for sale. But while Bradford was advertising the Catechistical guide to sinners, or The plain man's path-way to Heaven, along with an occasional Spectator, Franklin's importations, listed in the Gazette for sale, included works of Bacon, Dryden, Locke, Milton, Otway, Pope, Prior, Swift, Rowe, Defoe, Addison, Steele, Arbuthnot, Congreve, Rabelais, Seneca, Ovid, and various novels, all before 1740. The first catalogue of his Library Company shows substantially the same list, with the addition of Don Quixote, and the works of Shaftesbury, of Gay, of Spenser, and of Voltaire. These latter were probably for sale in the printing office as well. Advertisements of merchandise in all the colonies throw a good deal of light on t
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 9: the beginnings of verse, 1610-1808 (search)
re no schools, no printing presses, no literary centres, and few people who cared to write books or, apparently, to read them. Yet, though the New England of the seventeenth century left us many thousands of lines of verse of various kinds, as against the less than one thousand lines left by all the colonies to the south of that region, it was Virginia that produced what is perhaps the one real American poem of the seventeenth century. This is the epitaph on the insurrectionary leader Nathaniel Bacon, written by his Man. The Man clearly was no menial but a reader and a poet. His brief elegy of forty-four lines is worthy of Ben Jonson himself, and is indeed written in that great elegist's dignified, direct, and manly style: In a word Marss and Minerva, both in him Concurd For arts, for arms, whose pen and sword alike As Catos did, may admireation strike In to his foes; while they confess with all It was their guilt stil'd him a Criminall. Maryland has even less to show than Vi
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