calculated, being 1,500,000 pounds of tobacco.[1] All the houses were not inhabited.[2] The two most substantial residences in the town at this time were owned by Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Drummond, men who figured very prominently in the popular uprising in the following year. The town extended about three-quarters of a mile from east to west.[3] When Jamestown was laid in ashes by the soldiers of Bacon, Drummond and Lawrence applied the torch each to his own home. The church and state-house were both destroyed in the conflagration. When the English regiments dispatched to the Colony to suppress the insurrection arrived, there was not a house left standing in the town to furnish them shelter from the weather.[4] The commissioners sent to Virginia to inquire into the causes which led to the uprising of the people reported in favor of continuing the capital at Jamestown, and this recommendation received the approval of the Privy Council.[5] The General Assembly had proposed to move the chief seat to Tyndall’s Point in Gloucester.[6] When Culpeper was appointed to the head of affairs in Virginia, he was instructed to rebuild Jamestown and to reëstablish there the executive residence, the principal courts of justice and the other public offices. It was
- ↑ Final Report of the English Commissioners on Bacon’s Rebellion, Winder Papers, vol. II, p. 503, Va. State Library. The destruction of several of the chief residences alone involved the loss of £1000. Ibid., p. 446.
- ↑ Bacon’s Proceedings, p. 25, Force’s Historical Tracts, vol. I.
- ↑ By the provisions of a law passed during the supremacy of Bacon, the corporation of Jamestown was made to include the whole island as far as Sandy Bay. See Hening’s Statutes, vol. II, p. 302.
- ↑ Colonial Entry Book, No. 80, pp. 90, 94.
- ↑ Order of King in Council, March 14, 1678-79, Colonial Entry Book, No. 80, pp. 266, 273; Sainsbury Abstracts for 1678, p. 212, Va. State Library.
- ↑ Hening’s Statutes, vol. II, p. 405.
