The work must be done exposed to Sir William's iron shot.
Now comes a strange and discreditable incident.

Patriots, revolutionists, who on the whole would serve human progress, have yet, as have we all, dark spots and seamy sides.

Bacon's parties of workmen were threatened, hindered, driven from their task by Berkeley's guns.
Bacon had a curious, unadmirable idea.

He sent horsemen to neighboring loyalist plantations to gather up and bring to camp, not the planters--for they are with Berkeley in Jamestown--but the planters' wives.

Here are Mistress Bacon (wife of the elder Nathaniel Bacon), Mistress Bray; Mistress Ballard, Mistress Page, and others.