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Article: Cultural clashes.(Bacon's Rebellion)(Brief Article)
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- Cobblestone
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- October 1, 2001
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In the spring of 1675, Doeg Indians attacked the plantation of Thomas Mathew in Northampton County, Virginia. Mathew's herdsman, Robert Hen, was killed. Virginia and Maryland militia retaliated, mistakenly striking the Susquehannock Indians, who had been friendly to settlers. The militia killed ten Indian chiefs. Over the next year, the Susquehannocks tried to even the score by killing more than three hundred settlers along the northern and western frontiers of Virginia. By the spring of 1676, the Susquehannocks had reached Nathaniel Bacon's plantation on the James River. There, they killed his overseer and another servant.
Bacon and other colonists on the ...