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A group of Indian tribes, the Susquehanocks, made a surprise attack onthe colony in 1622 and killed a third of the settlers before beingdefeated. In 1660 the first of the British Navigation Acts, whichrestricted the way trade could be carried on, put an end to a prosperousera. The resulting economic slowdown and the refusal of the governor tocampaign against the frontier Indians lay behind Bacon's Rebellion of 1675-1676, led by Nathaniel Bacon. Bacon's Rebellion was a short-lived revolt in colonial Virginia. It beganin May 1676 when Nathaniel Bacon (1647-76), a young, well-placedVirginian, led a small army of his fellow colonists in combat againstboth the royal governor, Sir William Berkeley, and the Indians on thefrontier. The participants in the rebellion were motivated by a varietyof concerns. Nearly all were opposed to the governor's Indian policy,which threatened to restrict their expansion into western lands occupiedby Indians. Bacon and his men enjoyed some initial success. In June 1676 an assemblydominated by Bacon's supporters passed laws extending the rights offreemen and restricting still further the rights of Indians. Bacon diedof Dysentery, however, in October 1676, and by January 1677, the RoyalGovernor was once again in control of the colony. Richard Stephens, son of (IIII) Richard and Elizabeth Piercy Stephens,was thought to be a leader under Bacon, known as Richard Lawrence. It isbelieved he returned to England after the rebellion and died there. William Lackey Stephens;http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/t/e/William-Lackey--Stephens/index.html
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