General Ingram succeeded to the command of the popular forces on Bacon’s death; and Berkeley, rejoicing in the misfortune that had befallen his enemies, roused himself to resistance, and sent Colonel Beverley to meet them. The tide now set in against the insurgents; Beverley immediately captured Thomas Hansford, an insurgent leader, “a young, gay, and gallant man; fond of amusement, impatient of restraint, keenly sensitive to honour, fearless of death and passionately fond of the land that gave him birth.” Brought before Berkeley, the choleric old cavalier ordered him to be hanged. He heard his sentence unmoved, but asked as “a favour that he might be shot like a soldier and not hanged like a dog.” “You die as a rebel, not as a soldier!” was the reply. Reviewing his life, he professed repentance of his sins, but would not admit that his so-called rebellion was a sin; and his last words were, “I die a loyal subject and a lover of my country.” Hansford was the first Virginian who died on the gallows; the first American martyr to the popular cause. He was executed on the 13th of November, 1676. Other insurgent leaders were taken; among the rest, Edmund Cheesman and Thomas Wilford; the latter, the second son of a royalist knight who had died fighting for Charles I., and now a successful Virginian emigrant. He, too, was hanged. Cheesman was brought up before the governor. “Why did you engage in Bacon’s designs?” demanded the latter. At that instant a young woman rushed forward, the wife of the prisoner, and replying before he had time to utter a word, exclaimed, “My provocations made my husband join in Bacon’s cause. But for me he would never have done it!” And then falling on her knees, she added, “and seeing what has been done was through my means, I am most guilty; let me be hanged and my husband be pardoned!” The governor, incapable of feeling the devoted affection of this noble woman, ordered her off, adding the grossest insult to his words. Her husband died in prison of ill usage.