Regulators

As Deputy Attorney General of North Carolina, he sided with Royal Governor William Tryon, and worked to suppress a rebellious group known as the Regulators, an uprising that lasted from 1764 to 1771, where citizens took up arms against corrupt colonial officials.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2009

One led a band of backwoods men known as the Regulators into the 1771 Battle of Alamance - one of the first acts of rebellion against British rule in North Carolina.

Archive 2007-01-01 2007

Next up was a pair of novels that had sat on my bookshelf for a while after being acquired in one of those special offer book of the month type clubs - namely The Regulators and Desperation.

Archive 2005-07-01 neil h 2005

Next up was a pair of novels that had sat on my bookshelf for a while after being acquired in one of those special offer book of the month type clubs - namely The Regulators and Desperation.

Great American Novels neil h 2005

The former represented a mild but firm protest against the wrongdoing of the officers and its transactions are summed up in the papers usually known as the Regulators 'Advertizements I, II, and III. 2 The latter replaced the former.

The Regulators of North Carolina (1765-1771) 1895

It cannot be affirmed that the expedition against the Regulators was a popular one.

An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America 1893

In South Carolina, Governor Tryon, a bloody-minded Irishman, went further; he took the field against the "Regulators" -- a body of citizens who had organized to counteract the lawlessness of the internal conduct of the colony -- and after a skirmish took a number of them prisoners and hanged them out of hand; most of the rest, to save their lives, took to the woods and, journeying westward, came upon the lovely vales of Tennessee, which was thus settled.

The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 Julian Hawthorne 1890

The writer may, also, have had in view the resistance made by the people called Regulators, in the middle and upper counties, at a later period, to the robbery and extortion of the county officers.

Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884

The Kentuckian in charge of the hotel answered that the Ku-Klux in that section were called Regulators, and they never troubled any except bad people.

The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland 1875

They furnished those who are known as the Regulators, and on the 16th of May, 1771, four years before the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, they fought the battle of Alamance, within twenty-five miles of the place where you stand.

Commencement Exercises. From The North Carolina University Magazine 9 (August and September 1859): pp. 59-63, 105-120 No Author 1859