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Nathaniel Bacon (1647–1676) is best known as the perpetrator of Bacon's Rebellion, a seventeenth-century uprising against the power of the royal governor, Sir William Berkeley, and his abuse of patronage. American leaders in the following century, including Thomas Jefferson, saw Bacon's Rebellion as a revolt against the arbitrary exercise of royal authority. The Manifesto was issued on July 30, 1676, and spelled out the complaints that Bacon and his followers had against Berkeley and his associates.