So i know it's not known for sure where Bacon's resting place is. But i have an interesting story for anyone that cares. I grew up in the northern part of Gloucester. My neighbors house was built in 1647. The guy living there now descends from the slaves that lived and worked on the property, the house was left to them around 1880. Ive done over 200 hours researching the property with little success. He said his family has passed down the story that the original owner of the house was a loyal friend to Bacon, possibly Thomas Pate. There's roughly 20 tombstones on my neighbors property and many more unmarked graves. A family story is that Nathaniel Bacon's body was brought there after his unexpected death. The grave sight was kept secret as his supporters feared the body would be desecrated. I have yet to search and record the graveyard, as new owners purchased it. Theres no information about the graveyard that i can find.
Does anyone have info on this subject? Or possibly any info about Thomas Pate?
Hey there! Did you mean to post this to /r/history? AskHistorians is a sub for people to post their questions about history, and get answers from experts based on academic sources. But /r/history is awesome for personal anecdotes and such like this. :)
You can close this thread now. After over 20 hours of research i have a good enough answer.
The guy who built the house was James Stubbs. He built the house in 1650 and had loads of kids who in turn each had loads of kids. The Stubbs family are direct descendants of President Madison, Henry and Harrison as well as Robert E Lee. And what blew my mind is that his great grandson married a woman named Lucy Taliaferro, not a very common name. After telling my grandmother she told me that her mother was adopted by her parents and her birth name was Taliferro. The house has sort of been in the family all this time. After the grandkids grew old the freed the slaves they had working for them and also gifted the house and hundreds of acres of property to continue growing Tobacco. Those free-slaves kept the house until a few years ago when it was sold for less than $90,000. The woman that bought it is a direct descendant of the man who built it. My next mission is to ask permission to document the tombstones in the back yard and hopefully get this place on a historic registry. I will update again later on. I didn't figure out if Bacon is there or not, but knowing that house is as crazy and unbelievable as it is, im happy.