As do most historians I believe that the Bacon's Rebellion was a personal attack rather then motivated by anything else, with Nathaniel Bacon being the more charismatic of the two leaders. So the only way to avoid the personal side is to remove one of the leaders so.....
The P.O.D. would be 1652 when the parliamentarians won the English Civil, Virginian Governor William Berkeley offered an asylum in Virginia to gentlemen of the royalist side; whereupon the parliament despatched a small fleet to the colony, and the governor, who resisted their claims was killed for treason and is replaced by Richard Bennett, who negotiating with the Susquehannock tribes, between 1652-55.
When he leaves for London, Edward Digges, takes over and invests heavily in planting mulberry trees and promoting the silk industry in the colony, his term only lasted a year when he was replaced by Samuel Matthews, from 1656 until he died in office in January, 1660.
When the House of Stuart is Restoration, Charles II was sad at the news of the death of William Berkeley and appoints Augustine Warner Snr. as the new Governor of Virginia.
Augustine Warner Snr. would hold this office until his death in 1674, when he is succeeded by his son, Augustine Warner, Jr.
After a series of Doeg tribe Indian attacks on frontier settlements, instead of denying retaliation, Warner, Jr. would create the Virginia militia, who were not mere vigilante thugs, but proper soldiers with morals and Colonel John Washington as the leader of this group of militia.
They would be ordered to defend only never to attack, this would please the majority of the frontiersmen, while a few led by Bacon may feel like they could do a better job, but instead of rebelling against the government, they rally a small group to go out personally to attack the Doeg tribe.
Outnumbered and out-thought the small group is quickly eliminated by the tribe, to the anger of Warner Jr. who uses this as his reasoning against attacking the tribe head on and strongly criticize the group after it was found they had killed six chiefs, before the start of the battle.
The Doeg tribe retaliated for the killings, in later raids and attacks against the colonists resulting in relations between the Indians and colonists deteriorated, until Warner Jr. opens up new talks with their leader in hope of securing a peaceful agreement.