At 10:29 PM 6/8/2002 -0400, you wrote: >I seem to recall something about the "Regulators," maybe Scots >settlers in the backwoods down that way, and maybe fans of the British? There were NC Regulators who rebelled because of corrupt colonial government. In 1771, they were put down at the Battle of Alamance. Some of this number later felt they had made some agreement that made them honor bound to support the king. My 4-g-gf died 2 months after that battle, testate, and we suspect it may have been from wounds received in that battle. He lived about 15 miles s. of the presentday SC border, but the border was very fuzzy in those days. Some of them saw the same leadership in the patriot/rebel militia they had seen in the colonial militia that "put them down", probably contributing to their early reluctance to join them. However, this pattern is not consistent. Many of the ex-regulators were among those overmountain men who came down after Ferguson at Kings Mountain (my kin were among that number). There were, separately, at the same time, SC Regulators, who were up in arms about the "absence of government", and more than once were on the verge of moving militarily against the coastal "rice kings" who controlled and monopolized all governmental services. There were no courts in the backcountry of SC (where 90% of the white polpulation lived) before 1785, resulting in most upper SC land titles, wills, etc. prior to the Rev War being filed in NC courts simply because they were the only ones available. You can learn a lot about the "almost war" of the SC Regulators in "The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution", edited (Richard J. Booker) writings of Charles Woodmason, the Anglican minister, who personally acted as mediator to prevent it. They knew about each other and were sympathetic to each other, but different colonies, different grievances. Many believe that, had the SC Regulators actually attacked the rice kings, the NC group would have come to their assistance. If you are travelling on I-85, immediately south of Burlington NC, there is a neat little 10-mile detour that you can take that will take you by Tryon's Camp (prior to Alamance, 1771), a great little park at the Alamance Battle site, the site of Pyle's Defeat (just prior to Guilford Courthouse, 1781, just as much an atrocity as Waxhaws, but done this time by Light Horse Harry Lee), and a very attractive memorial to the Clapp's Mill skirmish site (also just before Guilford C.H.) which they don't get around to telling you is a half mile away at the bottom of a fairly new lake (why they built the nice little monument area)! If this is of interest to anyone, I can come up with more precise directions. John Robertson