Bacon Genealogy We've researched the Bacon Genealogy and the Rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon searching for links to Nicholas and Thomas Boone, who are supposed to be residents of Virginia at the time. They leave only sporatic record of their existenance, but some of those records are specifically related to the taking of "an Oath", and being a defendant in a court case, all in the 1676 - 1677 timeframe. There is also an indication that a Thomas Boone got a grant for 640 acres of land, later sold by a descendant, in an area adjacent to the Roanoke River, in southeastern North Carolina. There are sporatic records of Nicholas and Thomas Boone in Philadelphia and Boston, in roughly the same time period -- perhaps totally different families, but perhaps separate "sightings" of the same individuals !! The Bacon family also has known ties to Boston. The Bacon family has money and power, both of which would have been needed to acquire a patent for 640 acres of land in 1668. The families may have known each other, or been neighbors in England, and the only way to prove or dis-prove it, is to research it ! There are no firm connections, but here is the data. Descendants of Edmund Bacon 1 Edmund Bacon .. +Elizabeth Crofts ......... 2 John Bacon ............. +Agnes Cokefield .................... 3 Robert Bacon ........................ +Isabella Cage ............................... 4 James Bacon - 1573 ................................... +Mary Gardner ........................................... 5 James Bacon ............................................... +Elizabeth Bacon ...................................................... 6 James Bacon .......................................................... +Martha Honeywood ................................................................. 7 Nathaniel Bacon ( Governor of Virginia 1689-1690) ................................................................. 7 Anne Bacon ..................................................................... +John Mason ................................................................. 7 Daughter1 Bacon ..................................................................... +Unknown Burris ................................................................. 7 Daughter2 Bacon ..................................................................... +Unknown Wilkyseon ...................................................... 6 Nathaniel Bacon .......................................................... +Elizabeth Anne Degrasse ................................................................. 7 Thomas Bacon ..................................................................... +Elizabeth Brooke ............................................................................ 8 Nathaniel Bacon (the Rebel) 1646/47 - 1676 ................................................................................ +Elizabeth Drake ........................................... 5 William Bacon ............................................... +Margaret Pepper ...................................................... 6 Unknowna Bacon ................................................................. 7 Nathaniel Bacon ................................................................. 7 Samuel Bacon ................................................................. 7 Elizabeth Bacon ............................... 4 Nicholas Bacon       Descendants of Edmund Bacon Generation No. 1 1. EDMUND1 BACON, of Drinkston; He married ELIZABETH CROFTS. Child of EDMUND BACON and ELIZABETH CROFTS is: 2. i. JOHN2 BACON.   Generation No. 2 2. JOHN2 BACON (EDMUND1) He married AGNES COKEFIELD, daughter of THOMAS COKEFIELD. Child of JOHN BACON and AGNES COKEFIELD is: 3. i. ROBERT3 BACON.   Generation No. 3 3. ROBERT3 BACON, of Drinkston (JOHN2, EDMUND1) He married ISABELLA CAGE. She was born in Perkenham Co., Suffolk, England. Children of ROBERT BACON and ISABELLA CAGE are: 4. i. ALDERMAN JAMES4 BACON, d. 1573. ii. NICHOLAS BACON. (Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper.)   Descendants of Alderman James Bacon   Generation No. 1 1. ALDERMAN JAMES4 BACON (ROBERT3, JOHN2, EDMUND1) died 1573. He married MARY GARDNER. Children of JAMES BACON and MARY GARDNER are: 2. i. SIR JAMES5 BACON. 3. ii. WILLIAM BACON.   Generation No. 2 2. SIR JAMES5 BACON, of Friston Hall,Suffolk; (JAMES4, ROBERT3, JOHN2, EDMUND1) He married ELIZABETH BACON, daughter of FRANCIS BACON and ANN DRURY. Children of JAMES BACON and ELIZABETH BACON are: 4. i. REV. JAMES6 BACON, b. England; d. England. 5. ii. NATHANIEL BACON. 3. WILLIAM5 BACON (JAMES4, ROBERT3, JOHN2, EDMUND1) He married MARGARET PEPPER June 04, 1598, daughter of SAMUEL PEPPER and MERCY. Child of WILLIAM BACON and MARGARET PEPPER is: 6. i. UNKNOWNA6 BACON.   Generation No. 3 4. REV. JAMES6 BACON, Rector of Burgate; (JAMES5, JAMES4, ROBERT3, JOHN2, EDMUND1) was born in England, and died in England. He married MARTHA HONEYWOOD. Children of JAMES BACON and MARTHA HONEYWOOD are: i. NATHANIEL7 BACON, Col. Nathaniel Bacon, Governor of Virginia (1689 - 1690). ii. ANNE BACON, m. JOHN MASON, Captain John Mason, of Seabrooke. iii. DAUGHTER1 BACON, m. UNKNOWN BURRIS. iv. DAUGHTER2 BACON, m. UNKNOWN WILKYSEON. 5. NATHANIEL6 BACON, of Friston Hall, Suffolk; (JAMES5, JAMES4, ROBERT3, JOHN2, EDMUND1) He married ELIZABETH ANNE DEGRASSE, , of Norfolk. Child of NATHANIEL BACON and ELIZABETH DEGRASSE is: 7. i. THOMAS7 BACON. 6. UNKNOWNA6 BACON (WILLIAM5, JAMES4, ROBERT3, JOHN2, EDMUND1) Children of UNKNOWNA BACON are: i. NATHANIEL7 BACON, d. Barnstable, Mass.. ii. SAMUEL BACON. iii. ELIZABETH BACON.   Generation No. 4 7. THOMAS7 BACON, of Friston; (NATHANIEL6, JAMES5, JAMES4, ROBERT3, JOHN2, EDMUND1) He married ELIZABETH BROOKE, of Yexford. Child of THOMAS BACON and ELIZABETH BROOKE is: i. NATHANIEL8 BACON, b. January 02, 1646/47, Friston Hall, Suffolk, England; d. October 1676, Gloucester, Virginia; m. ELIZABETH DRAKE, 1674, Suffolk, England. Notes for NATHANIEL BACON, "the rebel": Nathaniel Bacon, the rebel, was the leader of "Bacon's Rebellion" in 1675-1676. He studied at Cambridge, and at Grey's Inn. He had a tutor named John Ray, who also guided some of his travel through Europe when he was "asked" to leave Cambridge. He is said to have been a lawyer in Virginia. The marriage to Elizabeth Duke so upset the community in Suffolk, that his father gave the couple 1800 pounds, English money, and put them on a tobacco ship for Virginia !! Nathaniel used the money to buy 1200 acres of land, along the north shore of the James River in Henrico County, from Thomas Ballard. This home, called "Curle's Neck", was about 20 miles below Richmond, but about 40 miles above Jamestown. He also maintained a residence in Richmond, but lived primarily at the river plantation. It is said that he died of "the bloody flax", a form of the intestinal illness, dysentery, that can also be symptomatic of Malaria. Its thought that he might have contracted Malaria from mosquitoes, during his stay in the swampy areas surrounding Jamestown, during the summer of 1676. He died at Mr. Pate's house, Glouscester (neat Yorktown), in October 1676. One report say it was October 1st, another says October 26th..

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