His family belongs to the English gentry, for he is a cousin of Lord Culpepper and married a daughter of Sir John Duke.

He run out his patrimony in England and hath, by his liberality, exhausted the most of what he brought to Virginia.

He came here four years ago and settled at Curies on the upper James River.

His uncle, who lives in Virginia, was a member of the king's council.

He is Nathaniel Bacon, senior, a very rich politic man and childless, who designs his nephew, Nathaniel Bacon, junior, for his heir." "Has he ability for a leader ?" asked Robert.
"He hath; his abilities have been so highly recognized, that he was appointed soon after his arrival to a place in the council." This was a position of great dignity, rarely conferred upon any but men of matured age and large estate, and Bacon was only twenty-eight, and his estate small.