The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-09-17

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Most virginians and especially tho old
families OF Richmond, are always inter-
1 cstcd In anything connected with the
i 50 called ''vlrginln Rebel" Nathaniel
Bacon His name Is still perpatuated In
! the city In the famous "Bacon's Quar-
ter Branch whore tho gallant Nathaniel
saved the little town from an attack
by tho Indians and proved 4TmseH
anything but a robe" by being great
benefactor to the infant colony. We,
i therefore, in course OF descent from Sir
Walter Rale.gh.s time, already given
now Introduce tho period Of Sir Vim.
| Berklcy and his contretemps with the
brave and chlvalrous Nathaniel Bacon,
whose English ancestry Is given as taken
| from the College OF Arms In England,
quoting therefrom as follows:
THE right worshlpful sir Nathaniel
| Bacon. Of Stifkey, In the countye OF Nornr
Knight second some OF Sir Nicholas
4 Bacon, late lord keeper OF the grent seal
Of England. departed this life at stlfkey
aforesaide the With dnye OF November,
1922, being II yeares OF nge and Ives
buried In Stifkey Churche. He married
/ two wives; his first was own daughter
| and the heirs Of Sir Thomas Graham OF
London, Knight. and by her had Issue
Anne, who married to Sir John Townsend,
Eof Raynham. In the county OF Norris.
aforesaid knight; Elizabeth. who married
to Sir Thomas Kenevet, OF sAshwellthorpe.
In the sadie county Of Norff. knight.
| His second wife was Dorothy, daughter
Of Sir Arthur IIopton. and widowo of
- Smith, In Stuff This worthy knight
lived in great reputation In his country
!, and this certificate Is ties titled to DO true
| By the subscriptions OF the hands Of the
| said Sir Robert Gawdy and Dame Elz-
iynbeth Eneoet and Dame Wynifred Cav
| dT, being the two executors of the last
! Will and testament of the said Defunct.
Taken the With Of Maye, 1922. BY me,
| Henry Chiillngs. Chester Hcrauld."
This Sir Nathaniel Bacon. by bis mar
! yriugc with the Grahnms, added their
arms which are given herewith. the Da-
con arms being "Gules, on Chef Arg;
two mullets, sable; crest. a wild boar
PEASANT. ermne around and hoofed or.
| Motto, Mediocria flrma-The crossbend
with cheyron and mullets are for Gra-
ham. 8 4s5 s}f
Nathaniel. tho Rebel is descended
from the second wife Of Sir Nathaniel.
! by whom wds Sir Nicholas Bacon, whose
son, Nathaniel Bacon was the emigrant
to Virginia, and the father OF Nathaniel
the Rebel who was born In Suffolk
county, England. 1647. The father and
son are both believed to have come
to the colony together and Nathaniel, the
younger, was in the Council Of Virginia
In 1912, gaining great popularity by his
eloQuence. AS Is well known, after his
unfortu nate opposition to Governor Breke-
ley, he died unmarried. and was mystic
riously buried In Accomac5 county.
Thore was, however, Nathaniel Ra-
con who emigrateti to Connecticut, set 1
ting at Mddletown in 1858 and bearing
the same arms as here given. who Is
attributed by some as being the father
Of the "Rcbel." But this branch seems
to have como from Rutland county, Eng
land while the Bacon family as from
Sir Nicholas were from Suffolk, the an
Client family seat.
1t is presumed that Nathaniel, tho
Rebel" bad several brothers. from
whom tho Virginia Bacons trace their
descent. AS early as 1880, we find many
OF the name In Henrico county. bearing
the Christian names of Nathaniel Will
liam. Henry, Daniel, Ludwell, and Lanss-
ton Bacon. who were owners Of lands
along the Chicknhomlny Swamp, and sur
rounding Richmond. IT Is said that An
thony Bacon. OF the noted English fam
lily. and Gilbert Franlslyn, brother II
Benjamin Franklin, who were merchants
in London, under the firm of Bacon nnd
Frnnklyn, We're the chief consIgners for
all the tobacco from Virginia to London,
whose chief agents In Virginia were
Fielding Lewis, OF Fredericksburg, ana
some Of the Bacons In Henrlco.
Some Of the family in Virginia moved
to South Carolina Of whom was Edmund
Bacon. born In Virginia l77G, who became
a noted lawyer and brilliant wit and hui
morlst and figured ms tho med Brace
in Judge Longstreet's Georgia Scenes"
Probably this Edmund Bacon gainad
much of his learning OF the law by his
association with William Jefferson at
Monticello he having been his steward
and overscer for twenty years and M
parted TO the Rev, Hamilton, ~. Plel-
son, Of kentucky much information for
his Jefferson at Monticello" written
in after years. Ills son. John Edmund
Bacon, born In 1899 al Edgched, s, G.,
was also a prominent lawyer, and rose
to become district Judge; In 1851, he was
Secretary OF Legation at 81; Ieiersbgrg'
Russia; in 1860 he entered the Confedcr-
ate service. rising to major, and IN 1917
WAS sent to Congress-
There were also many of the family In /
New England. descending from the first
settlers in Connecticut, WIZ became
prominent ms ministers in the various
denominations, ard influential as pol'a-
cal leaders IT is proposed 10 gather q
fun line of the Bacons OF Virginia with
their connections, and any contributions
by descendants will be accepted,
Perry.
. I ulaI 10 thank MIR. Meade for the