Archaeologist Julia King, a professor at Saint Mary’s College of Maryland, will speak later this month in Middlesex County about the Rappahannock Tribe and Bacon’s Rebellion.
The Middlesex County Museum and Historical Society talk will be held at 4 p.m. on Sunday, June 29 in the court room on the second floor of the Old Courthouse in Saluda. King will speak about her recent archaeological work in the Dragon Run, which lies on the border of Middlesex and Gloucester counties.
King’s talk will focus on the impact of Bacon’s Rebellion (1676-77) on indigenous tribes in the Middle Peninsula. The rebellion, in which Nathaniel Bacon led frontiersmen, indentured servants, and enslaved people in an uprising against the colonial government of Governor William Berkeley, was in protest of what Bacon regarded as government failure to protect settlers from attacks by Native Americans.
Bacon’s forces attacked both Jamestown and nearby Native Americans (though not the tribe that had recently attacked s...