Toni Morrison explores 17th Century Virginia
2008: Novelist John Updike, in a perceptive New Yorker review of Toni Morrison’s novel “A Mercy” (2008), praises it for its ability to …
Category Archives: Indians
A landmark reassessment of the Colonial-Indian Encounters in the 17th Century
2005 saw a great new online/offline publishing project, introducing new scholarship and historical insight: “With the approach of the four-hundredth …
Bacon’s Northern Force at War
There’s a historical marker, in Millers Tavern on Highway 360 just southwest of Tappahannock in central Essex County, titled “Bacon’s …
Bacon Mobilizes his “Northern Force”
June 5, 1676: Rebel Nathaniel Bacon orders up a Northern Force, including Rappahannock County men (the site of Mahockney). And it …
“A warr be declared and effectually prosecuted against all such Indians”
1676, March 7: A remarkable act by the Virginia colonial assembly, declaring “warr” on the Indians – and I make …
A stirring account of the murderous menace of the “red man”
1676: Among the romantically pro-Bacon histories written during the antebellum years was the chapter in Charles Campbell’s “History of the Colony …
A Pro-Bacon account of the run-up to and events of Bacon’s Rebellion
1676: the year of Bacon’s Rebellion. In a 1909 Journal of American History, R.T. Crowder of Gloucester County published a …
The Warrs against the Indians, and the roots of Bacon’s Rebellion
1674: Early roots of Bacon’s Rebellion, discussed throuh primary documents in an excellent resource, the National Park Service’s narrative history, …
Mahock Tribe fights in the Battle of Bloody Run
Wikipedia has an entry on the 1656 Battle of Bloody Run, involving the Mahocks. One historian holds that the Mahocks …
Mahcawq, the Pumpeon Gourd, used commonly for music by Indians
1624: Capt. John Smith wrote that for their music, the Virginia Indians used as their “chief instruments or Rattles… small …
Mahockney 