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NATHANIEL BACON.
To add to the uncertainty of life in Virginia, Indian troubles flared up again.

In and around the main settlements the white man was safe enough from savage attack.

But it was not so on the edge of the English world, where the white hue ran thin, where small clusters of folk and even single families built cabins of logs and made lonely clearings in the wilderness.
Not far from where now rises Washington the Susquehannocks had taken possession of an old fort.

These Indians, once in league with the Iroquois but now quarreling violently with that confederacy, had been defeated and were in a mood of undiscriminating bitterness and vengeance.