Articles in regional publications that pertain to a wide range of North Carolina-related topics.
Search Results
17 results
for "North Carolina--History--Regulator Insurrection, 1766-1771"
Currently viewing results 1 - 15
|
PAGE
OF 2
|
Next |
Record #:
28542
Author(s):
Abstract:
The article examines the Regulators’ and Governor William Tryon’s use of political language and rituals to support their causes and the growing crisis between Britain and the colonies in the 1760s. The author states that the Regulator movement was ultimately shaped by political interests and consequences beyond the state and influenced the American Revolution. Both the Regulators and Tryon believed that the other group did not follow the laws of the country and that this problem could be settled outside the law.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 93 Issue 3, April 2016,
p119-146
Periodical Website
Subject(s):
Record #:
23604
Author(s):
Abstract:
Part 2 of the Story of Charlotte series, \"A Fighting, Trifling Place,\" describes the events in Mecklenburg County from 1770 through the early 1790s. Ideology from Orange and Rowan counties' Regulator Movement causes some riots, but county elites capitalize on the insurrection to reduce colonial taxes and establish Queen's College. Revolutionary thought contributes to the alleged signing of the Mecklenburg Declaration in 1775, while encounters with British troops come in 1780.
Source:
Full Text:
Record #:
22700
Author(s):
Abstract:
In the context of the Regulator Uprising, no other person is more lionized that James Pugh. Pugh gained legendary status for his role as sharpshooter during the 1771 skirmish with Gov. William Tryon's militia forces at the Battle of Alamance. The rest of the Pugh family is also known to have been part of the legendary Regulators.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 90 Issue 2, April 2013,
p173-196, il, map, f
Periodical Website
Record #:
17282
Author(s):
Abstract:
Just outside Burlington, you can visit the Alamance Battleground State Historic Site. There, North Carolina governor William Tryon and his soldiers defeated a group of reform-minded farmers known as the Regulators in 1771.
Source:
Record #:
21700
Author(s):
Abstract:
This article examines the role of the county clerk in colonial North Carolina. The clerk's duties included maintaining court records, processing documents, and offering legal advice, making it a very influential position. The abuse of power by clerks was a factor in the violent actions of the Regulator movement between 1766 and 1781.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 85 Issue 1, Jan 2008,
p133-162 , il, por, map, f
Periodical Website
Record #:
7104
Author(s):
Abstract:
Before America declared for independence, a group of Piedmont farmers challenged the royal government which was led by Governor William Tryon. The group was not seeking independence from England but reform of existing local governments. Among the complaints against local governments were excessive taxes, illegal fees, corrupt officials, and appointment by the Crown of local officials. Pittard discusses the Regulator Revolt, which culminated in a battle on May 14, 1771, on Alamance Creek between Royal forces and the Regulators and the subsequent hanging of six of the Regulators.
Source:
Full Text:
Record #:
21483
Author(s):
Abstract:
This article looks at religious life in the North Carolina interior and suggests how religion influenced the North Carolina Regulator Movement, a loosely organized protest movement of settlers in the North Carolina backcountry during the 1760s and early 1770s that began as a peaceful expression of the settlers' discontent over political and economic conditions and developed into a series of increasingly violent mob actions that ended with a pitched battle between the Regulators and militia led by the colonial governor.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 72 Issue 1, Jan 1995,
p30-53, il, map, f
Periodical Website
Record #:
21246
Author(s):
Abstract:
This article examines the movements of Regulators in the Carolinas prior to the Revolutionary War. The article also examines 19th and 20th century literature on the subject to identify evolving interpretations of Regulator activity.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 49 Issue 4, Oct 1972,
p345-352, il, f
Periodical Website
Record #:
10627
Author(s):
Abstract:
The Anson County Historical Society, under the leadership of Linn D. Garibaldi, took possession of the oldest and most historically significant house in Wadesboro from Major L. P. McLendon, prominent Greensboro lawyer, state civic leader, and descendant of Capt. Patrick Boggan, the original builder of the house. The historical society's efforts to preserve the home for a museum and for educational purposes was aided by a 1969 General Assembly grant of $20,000 and a Richardson Foundation grant of $3,000. Capt. Boggan was one of the Anson Regulators who stormed the county courthouse on April 28, 1768 demanding relief from the injustices of Royal Local Magistrates. The Regulators nominated their own Assembly representative, Charles Robinson, making them possibly the first citizens group in America to make a political nomination and certainly among the first to forcibly demand justice from local officers.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
13879
Author(s):
Abstract:
On 16 May 1771, 2,000 Regulators fought against 1,200 Militia led by Royal Governor Tryon in the battle of Alamance Creek. Holt discusses the men and circumstances of this famous North Carolina battle fought in Alamance County.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
14149
Author(s):
Abstract:
Herman Husband was a leader of the Regulators during the pre-Revolutionary era. He was a man of education and had a talent for public leadership with an inborn hatred of oppression. He represented Orange County in the Colonial Assembly and would have been acclaimed as a patriot had the Regulators been successful at the battle on Great Alamance Creek.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
14716
Author(s):
Abstract:
The Regulators were vigorous in their protest against unjust tax collections. They offered armed resistance long before the Revolution, but they finally were defeated at Hillsboro.
Source:
Full Text:
Record #:
20011
Author(s):
Abstract:
This is a reprint of \"The Continuation of the Impartial Relation of the First Rise and Cause of the Recent Differences in Publik [sic] Affairs in the Province of North Carolina, Second Part,\" by Hermon Husband and printed in 1770. The Introduction establishes the document as being produced by Husband, a leading champion of the Regulators during the period of popular uprising in North Carolina between 1765 and 1771, and suggests that it is the primary source of knowledge of the Regulator's side in the conflict between Regulators and Royalists. Background information on the document and its author are also included in the introduction.
Source:
Administration of Justice Bulletin
(NoCar KFN 7908 .A15 U6), Vol. 18 Issue 1, Jan 1941,
p48-81, il, f
Full Text:
Record #:
19586
Author(s):
Abstract:
Dr. George Micklejohn's \"Sermon to Tryon's Militia\" (1768) and a \"Table of North Carolina Taxes, 1748-1770\" are the subjects of this article. Micklejohn's sermon denounces Regulators Governor Tryon's aggression and reaffirms his loyalty to the Crown. The Table of Taxes was the third report in a series by John Burgwyn, Clerk of the Court of Chancery and Secretary of the Council that addressed investigations any fraudulent or excessive taxation.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 3 Issue 3, July 1926,
p457-476, f
Periodical Website
Full Text:
Record #:
19616
Author(s):
Abstract:
The third installment of \"Some North Carolina Tracts of the Eighteenth Century,\" by William K. Boyd. John Rutherfurd (1724-1782) was born in Scotland and migrated to North Carolina sometime prior to 1735, settling in Wilmington. He was twice elected town commissioner of Wilmington, appointed by Governor Johnston as a member of the Council and Receiver General of Quit Rents in 1751, and was appointed Lieutenant General of the expedition against the Regulators by Governor Tryon prior to 1768. He wrote \"The Importance of the Colonies to Great Britain, etc.,\" reproduced here in full, in 1761 while in England. The piece examines themes of traditional mercantilism such as the balance of trade between England and the colonies and the future of that balance.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 2 Issue 3, July 1925,
p351-386, il, f
Periodical Website
Full Text: