I52606: GULDREGUT Countess of Aragon (ABT 0830

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Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume I, II--Colonial Presidents and Governors:
Nathaniel Bacon, Sr. president of the council and acting governor of Virginia, was baptized at St. Mary, Bury St. Edmund's, August 29, 1620, and died in York county, Virginia, March 16, 1692. His father, Rev. James Bacon, was rector of Burgate, Suffolk, and died August 25, 1670, and his grandfather, Sir James Bacon, of Friston Hall, Suffolk, was first cousin of Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam. Nathaniel Bacon, the subject of this sketch, was first cousin once removed of Nathaniel Bacon, Jr., "the Rebel." He travelled in France in 1647, and was probably a graduate of Cambridge; came about 1650 to Virginia, where he settled first in Isle of Wight county, and then at "King's Creek," York county, on one of the first tracts of land patented on York river. He was chosen member of the council in 1657, but held the office for only a year; was burgess for York county in 1658-59, and was reappointed to the council in 1660; appointed auditor general March 12, 1675, resigning in December, 1687, was president of the council, and as such acting governor during the absence of Lord Howard in New York in the summer of 1684, during his absence on a visit to the southern part of the colony in December, 1687, and in the interval between his departure for England, October 28, 1688, and the arrival of Governor Francis Nicholson, May 16, 1690. He did not approve the course of his young kinsman Nathaniel Bacon, Jr., and it was at his house on King's creek that Sir William Berkeley first put foot to land after his return from the eastern shore in 1676.

Lord Howard had left the colony just before the abdication of James II., and the uncertainty attending affairs in England created something like a panic in Virginia. Rumors of terrible plots of Catholics and Indians were circulated. which President Bacon and his council allayed as far as possible. But the difficulties of maintaining order might have became insuperable, had not the news of the accession of the Prince and Princess of Orange arrived. Colonel Bacon's health was very feeble at this time, and he died March 16, 1692. As he had no children he bequeathed his estate to his niece Abigail Smith, who married Major Lewis Burwell, of Gloucester county, and has many descendants in Virginia and the south.

Will of Nathaniel Bacon, York Co. I give to my loving niece, Abigal Burwell, wife of Lewis Burwell of Gloucester Co. Burwell children: Nahan, Lewis, James, Joanna, Elizabeth Soroy (?), and Martha. Niece Elizabeth Sherrifs (?), sister of Abigail. Brother-in-law, Thomas Brown (?) (Burrowes) of Borry in England. Son-in-law, Will Jean (?) in England. Brother Burret (?) (Bassett?) Ye children lawfully begotten or to be begotten of my said Lewis and Abigail, his wife. 15 Mar 1691. s/ Nathann.,xll Bacon seal. Wit: Wm. Cole. Mighon Howard; Joseph King, Henry Jones (?) Elizabeth Goshird, dau. of Mr. Thomas Goshird, plantation called Sihts. Mar. 24, 1691.

Resided in France in 1647. Arrived in VA about 1650 with wife, Elizabeth Kingmell. Had a cousin Nathaniel. 1075 ac. Isle of Wight, 23 Mar. 1652, trans. of 22 persons. (Renewed 16 Feb. 1663.)

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GULDREGUT Countess of Aragon

ABT 0830 - ____

ID Number: I52606

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Gov. Nathaniel BACON of King's Creek

15 May 1593 - 16 Mar 1692

ID Number: I58297

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George BERRY

ABT 1710 - ____

ID Number: I93672

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Bonne DEVY

ABT 1560 - ____

ID Number: I20548

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Malinda DUNAWAY

ABT 1832 - ____

ID Number: I27402

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Patrick HAYNES

ABT 1780 - ____

ID Number: I45693

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Joseph STOCKTON

1697 - 15 Mar 1770

ID Number: I91302

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Frances STONE

21 Mar 1785 - 5 Dec 1851

ID Number: I89756

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Jeter Lynch THOMPSON

29 Sep 1818 - ____

ID Number: I70897

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Lucy Penn WICKHAM

1897 - 1938

ID Number: I43323

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