Contempt for the governorship included accusations that Sir Berkeley “raised unjust Taxes, upon the Commonaltie, For advancing of Private Favourites. And other sinister Ends, but noe visible Effect, in any Measure adequate.” Virginians in the 1670s faced economic hardship with declining tobacco prices and increased tax mandates. Civilians assumed that the rise in taxes would yield an abundance of townships and fortifications to secure the colony’s foothold in the region and develop the frontier. To the dismay of the colonists, these sites were never established and the protection they would have provided the frontiersmen, let alone the central regions of the colony as well, never came into fruition. The alleged mismanagement of funds by government officials caused widespread distain throughout the colony and laid the ground work for increased animosity of Sir Berkeley and his constituents on the eve of Bacon’s
Contempt for the governorship included accusations that Sir Berkeley “raised unjust Taxes, upon the Commonaltie, For advancing of Private Favourites. And other sinister Ends, but noe visible Effect, in any Measure adequate.” Virginians in the 1670s faced economic hardship with declining tobacco prices and increased tax mandates. Civilians assumed that the rise in taxes would yield an abundance of townships and fortifications to secure the colony’s foothold in the region and develop the frontier. To the dismay of the colonists, these sites were never established and the protection they would have provided the frontiersmen, let alone the central regions of the colony as well, never came into fruition. The alleged mismanagement of funds by government officials caused widespread distain throughout the colony and laid the ground work for increased animosity of Sir Berkeley and his constituents on the eve of Bacon’s