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The Regulator Movement in North Carolina, also known as the Regulator Insurrection, War of Regulation, and War of the Regulation, was an uprising in Provincial North Carolina from 1766 to 1771 in which citizens took up arms against colonial officials whom they viewed as corrupt.
[3]: 14 During 1751, Quaker Minister Abigail Pike and Rachel Wright traveled to Perquimans County, North Carolina to attend the Quarterly Meeting at Little River, in hopes of gaining permission to establish a new monthly meeting in Cane Creek. [3]: 17 Permission was granted and the first Monthly Meeting was held on October 7, 1751.
North Carolina militia units in the American Revolution Unit Subordination Established Disbanded Original Commander, Rank Refs North Carolina Militia and State Troops Command Governor of North Carolina: 1778 1783 MG John Ashe, Sr. [7] [8] Edenton District Brigade: North Carolina Militia Command 1776 1783 BG Edward Vail [9] [10]
The site of the Battle of Alamance, including red flags, to the right, marking militia positions and an 1880 commemorative monument, in the distance, to the far left.. The Battle of Alamance, which took place on May 16, 1771, was the final confrontation of the Regulator Movement, a rebellion in colonial North Carolina over various issues with the Colonial Government.
1764 Pope Day Riot in Boston; 1765 Stamp Act riots in Boston, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, and Maryland; 1765–1771 War of the Regulation. 1771: Battle at the Yadkin River in North Carolina, Battle of Alamance which was also fought in North Carolina; 1766 Quartering Act riot in New York
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The Province of North Carolina, originally known as Albemarle Province, was a proprietary colony and later royal colony of Great Britain that existed in North America from 1712 to 1776. [ 2 ] (p. 80) It was one of the five Southern colonies and one of the thirteen American colonies .
Herman Husband (December 3, 1724 – June 19, 1795) was an American farmer, pamphleteer, author, and preacher best known as a leader of the Regulator Movement, a populist rebellion in the Province of North Carolina in the years leading up to the American Revolutionary War.