Either Be Free or Die For It! The Story of America's First Uprising the York County Conspiracy of 1661
York County sits astride the waters of Chesapeake Bay, Virginia. Today York County is considered one of the state’s most populous regions, situated as it is in the Norfolk-Newport News metropolitan area. York County takes its name from the city of Yorktown, site of the penultimate battle of America’s War for Independence in 1781. Also, the county is home to Colonial Williamsburg, one of America’s most popular historic tourist attractions, a living history site, that attracts thousands of visitors each and every year. Not all that far from Jamestown, America’s oldest colonial town first settled in 1607, York County, Virginia was one of the first settled and most populous regions in British North America during the 17th century. It was home to wealthy tidewater farmers, who grew rich off the profits from enormous sprawling tobacco plantations, that helped finance His Majesty’s Empire in the years prior to the American Revolution. Colonial Map of York County ...