Born in Maryland, HUSBAND became a Quaker in his youth. He visited North Carolina several times in his early manhood and finally came here to settle in 1762. He married mary PUGH, the daughter of his neighbor, and joined the Cane Creek Friends Meeting. Two years later his fellow Quakers disowned him for " making remarks on the actions and transactions of this meeting and publicly advertising the same." No longer able to express his intrinsic opinions in the church, HUSBAND took up the fight against political vitiation. he began writing pamphlets and petitions against the evils of local and colonial government, and he found much material for complaint. in the year 1766, Governor TRYON, escorted by 100 troops and servants, led a 17-day dxpedition into western North Carolina to run a boundary between the colony and the Cherokee nation. The trip cost taxpayers 15,000 pounds sterling--$75,000 . In November of the same year the Gereral Assembly ratified a proposal to tax the colonists 20,000 pounds to build a new palace for the Governor at New Bern. Such government exxtended into Orange County also. The county clerk charged 15 pounds - $75. - for a marriage license. Tax collectors frequently took a farmer's horse from the plow to satisfy exorbitant taxes. On one occasion, the Orange County sheriff, failing to find a farmer at home, reportedly ripped the homespun dress from the farm wife's back and sold it to the highest bidder. Meanwhile, CHILDS and CORBIN, Lord GRANVILLE's agents, continued to swindle property owners by forcing them to purchase a second deed to their lands. Governor TRYON, issued two proclamations on June 25, 1766 - one anouncing the repeal of the infamous Stanp Act by Parliament, and the other requiring that county officers adhear strictly to the established rates in collecting taxes and fees. In Orange County the latter proclamation was ignored, and office holders continued their extortion. On October 10, 1766, a number of men entered a session of Inferior Court at Hillsborough and requested the clerk to read a petition written by Herman HUSBAND. The petition called for a meeting of county officials and citizens "judiciously to inquire whether the free men of this county labor under any power of abuse. . . and in particular to examine into the public tax and inform themselves of every particular thereof, by what laws and for what use it is laid." On the appointed day the hopeful planters left their unharvested crops and rode to "MADDOCK's" mill (two or three miles west of Hillsborough, "a suitable place where there is no liquor." After waiting several hours they sent a millboy into Hillsborough to see why no officials had appeared, and late in the afternoon a lone horseman arrived at the mill. Colonel Edmund FANNING and Thomas LLOYD, the Orange County deelegates to the General Assembly, had intended to come, said the rider - but Colonel FANNING noticed the word "judiciously" in HUSBANDS's petition. Since the men gathered at MADDOCK's Mill had no judicial authority, it seemed obvious that they were insurrectionist, and the delegates refused to meet with them. during the following spring further action developed. the above taken from "Centennial History of Alamance County" ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange GENDEX at http://www.gendex.com/gendex/ has over 1400 databases on line