Found in the Colonial State Records of North Carolina
North Carolina’s “Regulator movement” in the 1760s emerged from the dissatisfaction of settlers in Orange County (including today’s Randloph, Chatham Guilford and Alamance) with corruption among local political figures. Regulator documents known as “advertisements” included minutes of the meetings and petitions to the government:
- Regulators’ Advertisement No. 1 – Public notice concerning the actions of public officials, August, 1766
- Regulators’ Advertisement No. 2 – Minutes of a meeting of inhabitants of Deep River, August, 1766
- Regulators’ Advertisement No. 3 – Minutes of a meeting of inhabitants of Orange County, October, 1766
- Regulators’ Advertisement No. 4 – Association concerning meetings to investigate the actions of public officials, January, 1768
- Regulators’ Advertisement No. 5 – Address from inhabitants near Haw River to the Orange County Vestry and General Assembly representatives, March 22, 1768
- Regulators’ Advertisement No. 6 – Minutes of a meeting of the Regulators, April 4, 1768
- Regulators’ Advertisement No. 7 – Minutes of a meeting of the Regulators, April 25, 1768
- Regulators’ Advertisement No. 8 – Minutes of a meeting of the Regulators, April 30, 1768
- Regulators’ Advertisement No. 9 – Petition from the Regulators concerning public fees, May, 1768
- Regulators’ Advertisement No. 10 – Minutes of a meeting of the Regulators, May 21, 1768
- Regulators’ Advertisement No. 11 – Petition from the Regulators concerning taxes and fees for public officials, May 21, 1768
Correspondence and documents related to the Regulators, many of which are about the fallout from the Hillsborough confrontation on April 8, 1768 between Regulators and government officials:
- Letter from John Gray to Edmund Fanning, April 9, 1768
- Letter from Edmund Fanning to John Gray, April 13, 1768
- Letter from Francis Nash and Thomas Hart to Edmund Fanning, April 17, 1768
- Letter from Edmund Fanning to William Tryon, April 23, 1768
- Letter from William Tryon to Edmund Fanning, April 27, 1768
- Minutes of the North Carolina Governor’s Council, April 27, 1768
- Letter from Samuel Spencer to William Tryon, April 28, 1768
- Letter from William Tryon to Samuel Spencer, May, 1768
- Advertisement by Edmund Fanning to the inhabitants of Orange County concerning complaints about public officials and fees, May 1, 1768
- Letter from Edmund Fanning to Jacob Fudge, May 1, 1768
- Warrant for the arrest of Herman Husband, May 1, 1768
- Instructions to the Orange County Justices of the Peace concerning the prosecution of rioters, May 1, 1768
- Instructions to the New Bern Jail keeper concerning the imprisonment of Herman Husband, May 2, 1768
- Letter from Edmund Fanning to William Tryon, May 3, 1768
- Letter from William Piggott to Edmund Fanning, May 10, 1768
- Letter from Edmund Fanning to Simon Dixon, May, 1768
- Minutes of the North Carolina Governor’s Council, May 17, 1768
- Minutes of the Committee of the Regulators, May 30, 1768
- Letter from Ralph McNair to Hermon Husbands, May, 1768
- Deposition of Tyree Harris concerning the resolutions of the Regulators, August 3, 1768
- Deposition of Ransom Sutherland concerning the resolutions of the Regulators, August 3, 1768
- Letter from the Regulators to William Tryon, August 19, 1768
- Letter from the Regulators to William Tryon, August 1768
- Petition by the Regulators concerning legal redress for grievances, August 1768
- Report on the proceedings of a council of war held at Hillsborough – Regulators offered the taking of an oath, September 22, 1768
- Minutes of the Hillsborough District Superior Court, September 22 – October 1, 1768
- Minutes of the North Carolina Governor’s Council, October 1, 1768
- Letter from Tyree Harris to William Tryon, October 29, 1768
- Proclamation by William Tryon concerning a general pardon of the Regulators, September 9, 1769
- Affidavit of William McPherson concerning the trial of Herman Husband, April 23, 1770
- Minutes of the Hillsborough District Superior Court, (The Hillsborough Riots), September 22, 1770 – September 24, 1770
- Letter from Richard Henderson to William Tryon, September 29, 1770
- Deposition of Josiah Lyon concerning the Regulators at the Hillsborough District Superior Court, September 30, 1770
- Letter from James Watson, Francis Nash, et al. to William Tryon, September 30, 1770
- Deposition of Ralph McNair concerning the regulators at the Hillsborough District Superior Court, October 9, 1770
- Letter from John Simpson to William Tryon, December 5, 1770
- Testimony of John Butler concerning the actions of the Regulators, December 7, 1770
- Minutes of the North Carolina Governor’s Council, December 20, 1770
- Agreement between Rowan County public officials and the Regulators concerning fees for public officials, March 7, 1771
- Letter from John Frohock and Alexander Martin to William Tryon, March 18, 1771
- Deposition of Waightstill Avery concerning the actions of the Regulators, March 1771
- Journal of the military campaign against the Regulators, April-June, 1771
- Letter from an inhabitant of North Carolina [Extract], March 10, 1776
Citizens unafiliated with, but sympathetic to, Regulators’ objections to taxes and concerns about corruption
Forebears and Kinfolks 