. Historic towns of the Southern States. e-mark of Bacon that one Virginian was equalto four red-coats. Middle Plantation, how-ever, witnessed a sad sight some months hero of the people had succumbed to dis-ease, and Sir William Berkeley was again inpower. Among those who supported Baconwith their counsel and sympathy, though notwith arms, was William Drummond, first Gov-ernor of North Carolina, and here at MiddlePlantation he expiated his offence on the gal-lows. The circumstances surrounding the exe-cution were unusually affecting. Tried by adrumhead court-martial, he was condemned
. Historic towns of the Southern States. e-mark of Bacon that one Virginian was equalto four red-coats. Middle Plantation, how-ever, witnessed a sad sight some months hero of the people had succumbed to dis-ease, and Sir William Berkeley was again inpower. Among those who supported Baconwith their counsel and sympathy, though notwith arms, was William Drummond, first Gov-ernor of North Carolina, and here at MiddlePlantation he expiated his offence on the gal-lows. The circumstances surrounding the exe-cution were unusually affecting. Tried by adrumhead court-martial, he was condemned,stripped, the ring torn from his finger, sen-tenced at one oclock and hanged at , however, did not long exult in hispower, for the British Government recalled himto England, where he soon died, Jamestown with all the public buildings hadbeen destroyed during the course of the suggestion was now offered to make Mid-dle Plantation the capital, but was not adopted^and Jamestown was again restored. 1 ,4> ,>ji. li U *w^?i;nr<il*ru)\<Si»iNl^^^^ 194 Williamsburg In 1683, a handsome brick church was erectedat Middle Plantation, and fifteen years laterthe old fields in front of the town were se-lected as the site for the Royall Colledge of William and Mary. Then in 1698, theState House at Jamestown falling again a vic-tim to fiames, Governor Francis Nicholsonproposed to carry out the original suggestionof making the Middle Plantation the seat ofgovernment. The Legislature seconded him inthis, stating in the preamble to their act that the Middle Plantation had been found byconstant experience to be healthy and agree-able to the constitutions of the inhabitants ofthis, his Majestys, colony and dominion ; that its air was serene and temperate, and that its land was dry and champaign, and plenti-fully stored with wholesome springs. Soon there rose at Middle Plantation a build-ing in the shape of an H, the first Capitol so called in the United States (t
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