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Plantations to have her property restored". Although the followers of Berkeley believed that William Drummond was given a fair trial as the land belonged to Berkeley and not William Drummond, Sarah Drummond garnered support through her claims that the seizure of her husbands property had left she and her children starving and desolate in the woods, as she states: "and forced Your petitioner, with her five poor Children, to fly from their habitation, and wander in the Deserts and Woods, till they were ready to starve". Drummond's words spread throughout England and eventually reached
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or straw and cried: "I value the power of
England no more than that". When Bacon's Army burned through Jamestown in autumn of 1676, The Drummond's expressed their support for the cause by burning down their own house. Drummond and her husband remained loyal to Bacon until the end. When Nathaniel Bacon died in October, the Drummonds continued to "fight back on the governor's forces for another two and a half months." The rebellion finally ended once Drummond's husband was captured in Chicahomony Swamp.
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Drummond gave power of attorney to one of her son's to regain her property on October 10, 1679, and her name last appears on a public record, leasing land in 1683. Sarah Drummond's date of death was not recorded, however, it is believed that she died and was buried on Samuel Swann's plantation,
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England to lobby her cause to the English people. In England, Drummond wrote "The Humble Petition of Sarah Drummond", in which Drummond argues that her husband was not provided a proper trial having been denied a jury, and thus was wrongly executed. Drummond "petitioned the
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Berkeley had over Virginia. One instance where Sarah was informed that Britain might send the army to Virginia to put down the rebellion, she picked up a twig
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America, Drummond filed a lawsuit against Frances Berkeley to regain her property. The hearing began in June 1678, and was a controversial event in Jamestown, as many of Berkeley's followers still believed that the property was rightfully owned by Berkeley. "Drummond's son in law,
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January 20, 1677, five days after his capture, William Drummond was presented to William Berkeley, and was greeted with sarcasm: "Mr. Drummond! you are very welcome, I am more Glad to See you, than any man in Virginia, Mr. Drummond you shall be hang'd in half an hour." After her husband was hung
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Drummonds often clashed in opinions and had animosity between them. "It is unknown whether personal animosity or differences about public policy led Drummond to support Nathaniel Bacon in opposition to Berkeley during the rebellion of 1676."
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Rebellion, being an outspoken woman and being essentially a landowner, she held incredible influence in the colonies. Sarah Drummond participated in the rebellion by spreading the word to other households and publicly
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