The History Series: Book 1 (Old)

Chapter 23

Virginia - September 19, 1676

Okay, how the heck does dad get so many kids?! He got like 3 new ones over the past few years. He's got North and South Carolina and then he's got New Jersey. And to go along with it, New Amsterdam found out about his real father, and for some reason decided to change his name. He got renamed New York, honestly I like it better than his last one. I can't explain why, but this one just suits him more. Also apparently Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut just got out of some big war, so that happened. We also all got moved into one giant house, so now we all are being forced to live with each other. Yippee...

Dad was out again checking on the New England colonies. I can't blame him, I mean they did just get out of a war. I was sitting down at my desk in the new house I had mentioned earlier. I sighed, I was once again bored out of my mind.
"Hey V!" Delaware said cheerfully.
"Hi Dela." I responded, turning my head to look at him.
"What're you doing?"
"Trying to find something to do, you?"
"Uh, what's it look like?"
"I have no honest clue..."
"Exactly!" Delaware said, with the world biggest grin on his face. I rolled my eyes. Then we heard a door slam open. We ran down the stairs to the living room. We got there and New York entered the room with New Hampshire both looking confused.
"What was tha—" New York started, but was cut off by someone else.
"VIRGINIA!!!" A voice called out running into the living room. We all jumped from the sudden arrival of the man who I recognized to be William. The message boy I had met a while ago who was now at this point an adult.
"Who are you?!" New York demanded.
"V-Virginia... trouble..." William panted between words, "r-rebellion... Jamestown!"
"William breath! Calm down and tell me what happened!" I told him.
"You know him?!" Dela asked from behind. A few other colonies heard the commotion and came into the living room.
"Yes- now tell me what's going on William." I said. The room went dead silent to hear his explanation.
William then stood up straight revealing his face full of worry, and said, "The colonist, t-they're rebelling!"

There were a few gasps, this has never happened before in any of the colonies.
"T-the native have been restless getting the colonists were already getting annoyed a-and on top of that Governor Berkeley had lowered the prices of tobacco and the higher taxes!" William stated, his voice quivering from panic.
I furrowed my brows, I knew this was coming eventually. Especially with all the problems the Governor had been have, most specifically with his relative, Bacon.

"Well then what are we standing here for?!" I yelled louder than I meant to, "Let's get going!"
I then ran out the door with William, leaving everyone in the room speechless.
I hopped on my horse and let William on with me. We then rode all the way back to Jamestown.

We were welcomed with a giant crowd. They had a weapon and torches at hand. I had William get off at the entrance, then rode over to a little house I used as a office and grabbed a few thing like, for example a few medical supplies.

The smell of smoke grew stronger, which could only mean one thing. They set it on fire, they were actually burning Jamestown. I left the house quickly and rode over to what was once the central statehouse. It was now just a giant bonfire. I gasped in horror as I watched the fire destroyed the entire building. Soon it was over, and while the colonist were still upset, most of them had calmed down for the most part...

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Virginia - October, 1676

I haven't left Jamestown sense what had happened to the statehouse, the people still held a riot every now and then, but for the most they seemed to have calmed down. Just a few hours ago a group of British troops came through and stopped a riot that was on way to happen. Things calmed down once again in the settlement.