Nathaniel Bacon (colonist)

Nathaniel Bacon (2 January, 1647 – 26 October, 1676) was a colonist of the Virginia Colony, famous as the instigator of Bacon's Rebellion of 1676, which collapsed when Bacon himself died from dysentery.

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