APPENDIX. No. I. NATHANIEL BACON, an insurgent in Virginia, was educated at the inns of court in England, and after his arrival in this country was chosen a member of council. He was a young man of fine accomplishments, of an interesting countenance, and of impressive eloquence. The trade with the Indians in 1676 being somewhat interrupted, the people complained, and were disposed to throw the blame on the government. These murmurings were echoed by Bacon, and while he complimented the people for their discernment of the causes of their troubles, he suggested that better measures might be adopted, and that he could open again the avenues of trade. He proposed to lead them against the Indians. The ears of the multitude were soothed by his promises and delighted with his oratory, and they unanimously elected him their American Biography. general. No. II. EDMUND ANDROS, governor of New England, had some command in New York in 1672, and in 1674 was appointed governor of that province. He continued in this office until 1682, exhibiting in his government but little of that tyrannical disposition which he afterwards displayed. He arrived at Boston, December 20th 1686, with a commission from king James for the government of New England. He made high professions of regard to the public good, directed the judges to administer justice according to the custom of the place, ordered the established rules with respect to taxes and rates to be observed, and declared that all the colonial laws, not inconsistent with his commission, should remain in full force. By these professions he calmed the apprehensions which had ' agitated the minds of many; but it was not long before the monster stood forth in his proper shape. Andros' administration was most oppressive and tyrannical. The press was restrained, exorbitant taxes were levied, and the congregational ministers were threatened to be deprived of their support for nonconformity. Sir Edmund, knowing that his royal master was making great progress towards despotism in England, was very willing to keep equal pace in his less important government. It was pretended, that all titles to land were destroyed, and the farmers were obliged to take new patents for which they paid large fees. He prohibited marriage, except the parties entered into bonds with sureties, to be forfeited in case there should afterwards appear to have been any lawful impediment. There was at this time but one episcopal clergyman in the country; but sir Edmund indulged the hope of receiving a supply; and he wrote to the bishop of London, intimating for the encouragement of those who might be persuaded to come to this country, that in future no mar T riage should be deemed lawful, unless celebrated by ministers of the church of England. With four or five of his council he laid what taxes he thought proper. The fees of office were raised to a most exorbitant height. The whole of his proceedings were such as to show that he was perfectly disposed to follow all the capricious and arbitrary measures of his weak and bigoted master, king James II. At length the spirit of the people could no longer brook submission. Having sought in the wilds of America the secure enjoyment of that civil and religious liberty, of which they had been unjustly deprived in England, they were not disposed to see their dearest rights wrested from them without a struggle to retain them. Animated with the love of liberty, they were also resolute and courageous in its defence. They had for several years suffered the impositions of a tyrannical administration, and the disaffection and indignation which had been gathering during this period, were blown into a flame by the report of an intended massacre by the governor's guards. On the morning of the 18th of April, 1689, the |