James City County: Keystone of the Commonwealth page 116 text:
and followed it with a "Manifesto" justifying his own actions. Some of his a followers commandeered three ships and set out for the Eastern Shore to confront Berkeley in his hideaway. Bacon, meanwhile, attempted to raise men for a march against the Indians on the colony's frontiers. Upon meeting with little success, he vented his wrath upon the Pamunkey Indians, who recently had signed a peace agreement with the Berkeley government. His men pursued the Pamunkeys into Dragon Swamp, where they killed men, women, and children indiscriminately, took captives, and plundered their goods. While this was going on, Berkeley overcame the rebels' attack, rallied his support-ers, and on September 7th returned to Jamestown, where he offered a pardon to the 800 men Bacon left garrisoned there. He had his men erect a palisade across the isthmus that connected the island with the mainland and then settled in to wait for the confrontation he considered inevitable.
As Bacon's Pamunkey expedition drew to a close, he learned that the men he sent to the Eastern Shore had been captured and that Berkeley's men were in possession of Jamestown. At that juncture, Bacon offered freedom to all slaves and servants willing to join his ranks. He then set out upon the lengthy trek to Jamestown, displaying his Pamunkey captives along the way. On September 13, Bacon and his rebel army passed by Green Spring, traversed the Governor's Land, and reached the isthmus that led to Jamestown Island.
As he advanced toward the capital on horseback, one of his men sounded a trumpet to herald his arrival. Bacon then fired his carbine. He saw that the palisade Berkeley's men had erected across the far end of the isthmus was so strong that he would have to lure his adversaries out of their defensive lines.
Bacon dispatched some of his men to Green Spring to raid the governor's provender, while others built a "French work" near Glass House Point.
Historical Marker of Bacon’s Rebellion site in James City County
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