rookings

Updated: October 22, 2025

"Bacon's Castle," in Surry County, built by Arthur Allen soon after his arrival in Virginia about 1650, passed to his son, Speaker of the House of Burgesses, from whom it was seized by Bacon's followers, 1676, and garrisoned by sympathizers under William Rookings.

Annie Lash Jester - Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century