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JAMES TOWNE In the Words of Contemporaries |
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26. JAMESTOWN—IN THE BALANCE
BACON'S Rebellion came to an end with the death of Nathaniel Bacon, Junior, in October 1676. The movement collapsed due to the lack of leadership, and the royal authority of Berkeley was resumed. Eventually, however, it cost the Governor his post. This Rebellion revealed the trend of Virginia history in the late seventeenth century, and constituted a precedent for opposition to unpopular and oppressive government.
Bacon's destruction of Jamestown in September 1676 was quite complete and it prompted the House of Burgesses to consider moving the capital to a new location.
It is hereby ordered, that whereas the state house being now Burnt downe by . . . Nathaniel Bacon the younger, and allso the houses in James City And for as much as Tyndalls [Gloucester] poynte is supposed and accompted, to bee the most Convenient place for the Accomodation of the Country, in general to meet att, that therefore the state house for the time to Come, Bee Built att Tindalls poynte.
Journal of the House of Burgesses, 1676.
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