The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-30

..-.ss,a. "es prosecuted with relentless cruelty North Carolina Marylan,i and Western Virginia became the refnge oi tne rebels. Every Indian trail and
 ioneiy mission gave sanctuary to inc neipless outcasts; as far west as where Lyncnburg now Is and south alon .
 the one broad road that led into North Iaroiina, which had no river colonies at lnat days As late as 1881 Col. Jan- nsy CoIleman of Bedford County, vir- ginia, complains bitterly of it's hesn 2 reIuge for malcpntents and Bacon hepeis. that they refuse the act of pardon and show a disposition to ba- come hostile" and it follows logically that It was in that part of Virginia that It's first regiment was raised for .. sne Revolutionary War. and by Stepnens. who was supposed to be the descendant of a rebel.
 One of the acts passed by Ber1selv,s Assembly in 1877 was that any one who had sympathized with Bacon was o,,t. iaWeo and could not hold any public once. Consequently their lands were
 frequently siezed during their enforced
 exile. Another passed during the time
 or the rebellion in 1676 was that If a
 woman expressed herself in favor of
 bacon or his rebellion, she must nav A
 me or be whipped on the bare back.
 twenty lashes, for the first offence, and
 thirty Tor the second. or pay a nne of
 l,VUV pounds of tobacco; a third time
 to be prosecuted for high treason :"
 These acts to the credit of Virginia.
 were promptly repealed; in fact, ali
 acts passed during 1875 and 1e76 were
 declared null and void.
 The conduct of Lord Berkely durfne the civil war was that of one when ar. tritiary power had made absolute des- pot Ills treatment of both men ana women concerned, was so atrocious that even his sovereign, that Charles. to whom he had been a most loyal ad- herent,< could not uphold him, Berkley won but the victory cost him his place and life, He went to England to ex- plain and excuse his severity but Charles refused to see him and declar- cd that "Berkely had hanged more men In that naked land than he had done in England for the murder of his father" Lord Berkely died while in England and Lord Culpepper was ap- pointed in his place. Chickly and Jeff frys two under officials acting until his arrival in America This appoint ment by Charles is the more noticeable form the fact there was close connec- ton between the Culpeppers and the Rebel, his uncle, Nathaniel Bacon, ST., being own cousin to Lady Berkely, to whom at his death, he left a fine house and the pounds in money.
 T Nathaniel Bacon. Sr., is orten con founded with the rebel, the first name of the wives of both men being the same. The senior Bacon married Ell zabeth Kinasmill. They died in 1sa1- 92. On her tombstone, on the Williams farm in York county (which was in existence in 1S51) was the following epitaph: Here Iieth the body of Elisa beth. wife of Hon. Nathaniel Bacon, who departed this life the second day of June, 1891, in sixty-seventh year Of her age.'f The stone shows the coat of arms, and one of it's quarterings is hog.
 Nathaniel Bacon, Jr, was the son of Thomas Bacon of Freestone Hall, and ancient seat in Suffolk, Eng. A list of the Pensioners who represented England in the Long Parliament, con- tains the name of Nathaniel Bacon, to a gift of 5000 pounds. His wife was Elizabeth Duke, daughter of Sir Ed- ward Duke, sister of Sir John Duke and also of Henry Duke of James coun- ty Virginia, a member of Governor Nicholson's council She married again after Bacon's death. One authority claims that the name of her second husband was unknown and that her third husband was Mir. Woles of Mary land, whether their shrdluau nau na land, where their descendants now re- side. Another states that her second husband was Thomas Jarvis. whom she married in 1884 and that they founded the town of Hampton. Va. The state ment that Bacon's father opposed his marriage is not substantiated (Meill) The NNdow of Bacon claimed her iointure out of Bacon's lands under a settlement made by him, ''in considera- tion of her position by marriage" lease reported by Vernon. 1,2S4.)
 It was not until 1,70O that the lands of Bacon were ordered to be sold. Virginia. They were purchased by W. M Randolph. Wm. Byrd Ed. Jennings, Mathew Page andS Ben Harrison, Es- ouires, of the court.
 With the burning of Jamestown, its existance as the centre of Virginia, commercial and social life ended. The site was malarious. and other wise un-> favorable, and soon after, Middle Plan tation or Williamsburg as 1t was later called, became the seat of government; located on a higher plateau of land and midway between York and Jamestown, convenient to Norfolk and Henrieo, 1t had every requisite for drawing the population to itself, and here Commis- sioner Blair located that famous col lege which was to nullify the ignorance desired by Berkley, who thanked God
 
 presses in Virginia, and that there never would be while he was Cover nor" What this college was to Ameri- ca, can only De understood by those who study the records of that time.
 In 1927 the walls and mounds built at Jamestown in 1907 were still in exis- tence, also a small brick building sup posed to be a powder magazine with an arched brick cellar, a part of church and tower and grave yard which was gradually being washed away. Today, there is not so much a part of the tower. the arch of the cellar. a few almost illegible stones. The entire plat weher Jamestown was built came later into the possession of the AmbIer family, and there Is large collection of manuscripts In the Con- gressional Library called the Amber Papers, which contain many interest ing documents concerning the early days of the settlement. TheEe is also at the Library. several maps which give the plat of incorporated James a City and locate the owners and dif-t ferent buildings
 The ground containing the historic ruins is in possession of the Virginia Society of Hist. Antiquities to which if was donated by Mrs. Edwards Bar ney. who owns the land surrounding