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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.
Captain Benjamin Merrill (c. 1731 – June 19, 1771) was an American military officer, gunsmith and planter who served in the militia of Rowan County, North Carolina.He sided with the Regulator Movement in North Carolina, and was captured following the Battle of Alamance on May 16, 1771.
1764 in North Carolina (1 C) ... Pages in category "1760s in North Carolina" ... Regulator Movement in North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-6699-3. Kars, Marjoleine. (2002). Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-4999-6. Lefler, Hugh T.; Powell, William S. (1973). Colonial North Carolina: A History ...
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North Carolina state regulators now declare a nonprofit run by the wife of North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson must repay over $132,000 for what they call disallowed expenses while carrying out ...
The Regulator movement against the corrupt colonial administration of North Carolina from around 1767 to 1771 presaged the American Revolution. It began with organized groups of rural North Carolinans refusing to pay inflated taxes to corrupt authorities, and eventually built to an armed rebellion (which was crushed). [3]
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