On this day in 1674, Nathaniel Bacon signed a promissory note to landowner Thomas Ballard. Bacon, a recent arrival from England, agreed to pay Ballard 500 pounds sterling over the course of two years in return for Curles Neck Plantation in Henrico County, Virginia. He also acquired from Ballard a smaller tract of land near the falls of the James River that became known as Bacon’s Quarter.
There are no contemporary images of Bacon; this is his earliest known signature. Two years later he would lead Bacon’s Rebellion.
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[...] On October 27, 1674 Nathaniel Bacon signed a promissory note to landowner Thomas Ballard, my 10th Great-Grandfather. Bacon, a recent arrival from England, agreed to pay Ballard 500 pounds sterling over the course of two years for a plantation. Two years later, Bacon would lead the Bacon’s Rebellion, the first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented colonists initiated. Bacon and his rebels kidnapped my 10th Great Grandmother Anne, Thomas’ wife, and other wives of the Governor’s highest officials. Photo Credit: Library of Virginia/Encyclopedia Virginia [...]
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