The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-29

yoitEeri' are 1t lland zcIe t.1ys S = n,
ithe state l,lbrary WY ,nf ho e
}ieurhoi nnd accomplished &c drct M Y.
William at. stnnard, Ill trail q geiteeailo-
list, could ihnvt set your con n, tl ! NJ
I'D e. M. right IN five ir,i.,,itcs "a W
III your isstie e To-day Y! III. the au!hof
ran mai iha soeod VIA Il sif Nathahielf
~ whom was Sir Nicholas Bacon, whose
som Nathaniel Bacon was ne emlsraan,s4
70 Virginia. and the father of y I a,leI
tho Rebel who was w " bern ts IN sutio,s
so n''S 6re Y BOTH believed to have come
10 tho colony together and nthaniel.S
Tia Younger, was III tho Council @of Viz
5ginta, ( III 1872 gaining great popularity
hls o1oauence. is vel KNOWN Y az
nor q Berkeley. he died t,ttrrtarred " ana
was s7tnyteriouslyl buried II, Accoin,,taLou5
lit wy;ouid Be difflcult indeed, TO cram
moro mistakes into tho same space. .
Nathaniel S''the Rebel Z" was not g De-
Sir Nicholas Bacon, nor was he the son e \
OF Nathaniel Bacon the cfnigrnnt 70.
rraf s,ta'tthe sot, " slr Nicholas Bacon
Nathaniel Bacon "tho Rebel, was the
son Of Thomas Bacon Of F'rlst y HAIL.
X
daughter Of sir Robert Bro oke. 9 3 coctS.
field Hall, In tho same county 81 q
TI1'he father OF this Thomas was Na-S
thanlcl (not Sir NathanieD. son OF Sir
James Bacon OF Flristot,. RI " l VI n
+ Sir Nicholas Bacon was n1, y uncle OF
this Sir James Bacon, and father Il. 81
tho great Chancellor, visoount st. Albans
Commonly and erroneousy STYLED Lord orc
Bacon''), but not the father OF i#3"thc EN-. 4
igrant.' III fact, he had been dead y
forty-onc years before the emlgrant"
was born. nj,
ana son are both believed to have como
to the colony together that /" Nathaniel.
tho younger, was In tho Council OF Viz,
gnia, lin 1872 that he died unmarried
and was mysterlously buried In Accon "a
county"-suffice It to say brlefly,.Hthal!.
the two Ma thaniels, the emil grant ana
5..''thc Rebel,") were not father and 81 son,
but b were b first cousins, one remove
(.'my uneasy cousin the enlgrant, call.
!, ed The younger in the parlous days o.
'Rebellon''), that .the emlgrant"s came
over and settled IN York about II 49, sc
whereas Nathaniel, thu younger, did
not come over until twenty-tthrcc years years,
after In the autumn OF 1879, and. there.
| fore could not have been In the Coun-
| Gill OF 1872, and finally, that he was
most happily married to Elizabeth,
daughter of Sir Edward Duke, as IS
evidenced by her pathetic letters which
may be read BY any one to-day IN the i,
brary and In thef'.NVl liam and Mary Col.
| sleEe Quarterly Ma gazinc. Is Z VIA
| Only q few 8 weeks ago we were told
in your Genealogical Column" that the
CloptQns n were descended from Sarah
Bacon, daughter Of Edmond Bacon.
now we are told that he died unmarried!
AS a matter OF fact, neither statement
| lis true Nat hanicl, 1.-THE Rebel" left no
SON. but an only daughter, Mary. who
amarried Hugh chamberlain, NJ. p, OF Al
derton Hall, Suffolk, physician to Queen
Anne. &as M s 81 n. N. !, X,
Nathaniel, .'the emigrnntn died child
loss, leaving his large estates chiefly to
Ibis, niece Abigail Smith. wife OF Lewis
Burwell; of Gloucester
1 2 Comment lis unnecessary. further than
to reIterate the truisrn that gcnealogy
| is worthless unless nccurate.
1 f AS to Bacon's "mysterious burial !, nc
i exact place of It Isl indeed. q somewhat
4 &mootcd question, but the proba bilitles arc
very strong that his faithful !sadherents
4 sunk his coffin, laden with stones, ~ 70
4 the York River, 10 save his body from
4 the ndlgnities, which they felt sure that
j Berkeley, In his Rvenonnouss wrath would
/ wreak upon It. 5if IN ri ~ 3E}i 54a4@
4 ' But .3of ali places, there was one
i|'place, as vigilant students Of that time
mus agree, that Bacons followers would
4 haye been most careful to avoid after
i his death In Gloucester, and "a that one
4 place was Accomac. whittier Berkeley
4 and his followers had fled and were Their
Hin possession. st85 5,,,
As 10 his unfortunate opposition e
1 Governor Berkeley" It is odd to FIND
Il thus characterized one Vi Of the 5noples
I and most Inspiring episodes In Viz
Etnia lhistory, the pioneer movement y
J. that great struggle y for civil d. con
4 stitutional liberty in the Western World
! which found It's elimination on the plain.
4 Of Yorktown. l am, sir
Your obedient servant,
w. GORDON A1tCABE,
President Of 4 the Virginia FListorica
Society," 45e 3}8 # H
September 18th. 1906