Regulators of North Carolina

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Orange County, North Carolina Colony
Surnames/tags: North_Carolina_Colony Orange County, North Carolina Chatham County, North Carolina

The Regulators were a group of North Carolina colonists who organized a brief armed insurrection against British tax corrupt practices in the 1760's and 1770's. Some North Carolinians consider this event to be the start of the American Revolution.

SOURCES

• Chatham County, North Carolina History, Genealogy Resources

• Wikipedia:War_of_the_Regulation, also known as the Regulator movement

• Regulators of North Carolina explanation from Britannica

• Sons of De Witt Colony

• Regulator Movement from Encyclopedia of North Carolina

• Regulators of North Carolina (1765-1771)

• Short notes on the Regulators of North Carolina (1764-1771)

• The Regulators Movement in the Carolinas

• John Maiden and the North Carolina Regulators

• Wikipedia:Battle_of_Alamance, final battle on May 16 1771

• Orange County, North Carolina Regulators, Colonial Records from North Carolina Archives