Most of the official records and other contemporary manuscript documents--including private letters--which supply material for a history of Bacon's Rebellion have been printed and copies of them may be found in collections of _Virginiana_ owned by historical societies and libraries. No one of these documents, however, sheds more than an imperfect side-light upon this interesting subject. To understand the man Bacon, and the merits of the rebellion led by him, familiarity with all contemporary evidences, and a painstaking sifting of them, is necessary. From the aforesaid evidences the author of this modest work has made a sincere attempt to draw the real facts, bit by bit, and to patch them together into a true story. The items of the list which here follows have not been arranged in chronological order--indeed, a number of the most important papers bear no date. The collections where the original manuscripts may be or once could have been found are indicated by italics. In some instances it has been impossible to locate the original. The British Public Record Office is referred to as P. R. O. and Colonial Papers and Colonial Entry Books mentioned are classes of records in that great depository. The list does not include the abstracts in the English Calendar of State Papers, and the acts in Hening's Statutes at Large of Virginia. All the papers referred to are full copies. _THE LIST._ The Beginning, Progress and Conclusion of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia in the year 1675 and 1676. Known as "T. M's" account--printed in the _Richmond (Va.) Enquirer_, Sept., 1804, from the original, formerly in the _Harleian Collection_, subsequently included in _Force's Tracts_. An account of our late troubles in Virginia written in 1676 by Mrs. An. Cotton of Q. Creeke. Published from the original manuscript in the _Richmond Enquirer, Sept. 1804, and afterward in Force's Tracts_. A Narrative of the Indian and Civil Wars in Virginia in the year 1675 and 1676. A manuscript found among the papers of Captain Nathaniel Burwell of King William County, Virginia, first printed in Vol. 1, 2nd Series, _Massachusetts Historical Society Collection_. A List of those that have been Executed for the Late Rebellion in Virginia by Sir William Berkeley, Governor of that Colony. Printed in _Force's Tracts_ from the original manuscript in the _British Museum_ (_Harleian Collection_, Codex 6845, page 54) copied by _Robert Greenhow, Esq., of Virginia_. Strange Newse from Virginia, &c. (Printed) London, 1677. Nathaniel Bacon's acknowledgement of offences, and request for pardon, June 9, 1676. _General Court "Deeds and Wills, 1670-1677."_ _Hening's Statutes at Large of Virginia_, II, 543. A True Narrative of the Rise, Progress and Cessation of the Late Rebellion in Virginia. * * * By His Majesty's Commissioners. _P. R. O. Col. Papers_, XLI, 79. Va. Mag. Hist. & Biog., IV., 117-154.