In any ranking of Virginia’s Colonial governors, one name reigns over virtually every other.Yet more than three centuries after his death in 1677, the legendary figure of Sir William Berkeley ...

Sir William, who served as Virginia’s governor from 1642 to 1652 and again from 1660 to 1677, is best remembered as the man who defeated Nathaniel Bacon’s rebellion in 1676.

Our jury argued to a virtual tie when trying to identify the single greatest citizen of 17th-century Virginia. The two nominees most often identified as the greatest were Captain John ...