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bacon, nathaniel

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Bacon, Nathaniel 1647-1676.  
English-born American colonist who led Bacon's Rebellion (1676), in which a group of frontiersmen captured and burned Jamestown in an attempt to gain reforms and greater participation in the government of Virginia.
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