Nathaniel Bacon (colonist)

Nathaniel Bacon was a colonist of the Virginia Colony, famous as the instigator of Bacons Rebellion of 1676, which collapsed when Bacon himself died from fever.

Bacon was born on January 2, 1647 in Friston Hall in Suffolk, England to wealthy merchant parents Thomas Bacon and wife Elizabeth Brooke Bacon. Nathaniel was one of their many children and received an education at Cambridge University. He went on a grand tour of Europe under the tutelage of John Ray, as well as studying law at Grays Inn. Nathaniel married Elizabeth Duke, the daughter of Sir Edward Duke, without permission. After accusations that Nathaniel cheated another young man of his inheritance, Thomas Bacon gave his son the considerable sum of 1,800 and the young man sailed into exile across the Atlantic.

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