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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.
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
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.
[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 regulators previously denied key stream crossing permits for the 73 miles of pipeline that would run through Rockingham and Alamance counties. They cited uncertainty about the ...
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.
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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 ...