Let me unscramble some of the Forbes/Buffalo Presbyterian Church confusion: To my knowledge, there was only one Arthur Forbes (also spelled Forbis) in the Guilford Co., NC, area prior to the American Revolution. He was a neighbor of Lt. Col. John Paisley and was one of the Captains of the Guilford Militia under Lt. Col. Paisley and Col. James Martin. His company was made up of men from the local Presbyterian churches, of which there were two: the Buffalo congregation and the Alamance congregation. Buffalo is now within Greensboro and Alamance is a few miles to the southeast. Arthur Forbis belonged to the Alamance congregation and is buried in the cemetary of that church (I've seen the headstone); as someone else pointed out, he died of his wounds at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse (well documented by Rev. Eli Carruthers). William Paisley, the brother of one of my ancestors (Robert Paisley) was with him when he was wounded; another Paisley, John (not the Lt. Col., but a cousin) helped carry Capt. Forbes from the battlefield two days after the fighting. Arthur died at home (this is in the pension application of John Paisley/Pastley). Arthur Forbes' home was about 7 miles southeast of the battlefield and 3 or 4 miles northeast of Alamance Presbyterian Church. My opinion is that neither Arthur Forbes, the Paisley's, nor any other Alamance man was a Regulator. Their minister, the famous Rev. David Caldwell, did his best to talk his people out of the following the Regulators and tried to talk Gov. Tryon out of the fight the day of the Battle of Alamance, to no avail. He left the field before fighting started. Additionally, Gov. Tryon required all of the Regulators to pledge an oath not to bear arms against King George III after the Regulation was defeated at the Battle of Alamance and, unlike today, an oath meant something then. It is well documented that most of the Regulators (many of whom were in the Deep River settlement) either remained neutral or became Tories when the American Revolution reached the Carolinas. The McLeans that someone wrote about in connection with Forbes emigrated from Co. Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland, in 1736/7 with William Paisley, Sr., and his brother, John. William is my ancestor, as is John McLean, Sr. whose daughter, Eleanor, married William Paisley. They all settled 20 miles up the Schulkyl River near present-day Norristown in what was then Lower Providence Township, Philadelphia Co., PA. In the 1760s William Paisley and John McLean, Jr., moved to Orange Co., NC, with their families. This part of Orange Co. was split off and joined with part of Rowan Co. in 1771 to form Guilford Co. Gov. Tryon had created Guilford Co. in a failed attempt to stifle the Regulation, but that's another story. The McLeans and Paisleys intermarried over several generations and I think I recall seeing a Forbes or two in there as well. It is possible that the Forbes family was also from Co. Tyrone and Philadelphia Co., PA. I'd like to hear from anyone with a PAISLEY, McLEAN, MAJOR or HAMILTON connection. Mark Ulmer msulmer@ix.netcom.com