From the History of Alamance by Stockard p. 45 North Carolina Hillsborough District March Term, 1771 " ' The persons who style themselves Regulators and under the conduct of Harman HUSBANDS, Jas. HUNTER, Rednap HOWELL, Wm. BUTLER, Samuel DEVINNEY and others broke up the court at September Term, still continuing their riotuous meetings and severely threating the Judges, lawyer and other officers of the court prevented any of the judges or lawyers attending. Therefore the court adjourned till SeptemberTerm' Governor TRYON his late excellency had fled before the next term, September 1771." "But the Regulators seized the books and what follows is the Court Proceedings of the Regulators- - 1770 September" (wonder if this should be 1771?) Peter NOAY vs. E. FANNING "FANNING must pay" John CHILDS vs. Richard SIMPSON "You keep that to yourselves to rogue everybody" William BROWN vs. John BROWN "A shame * * * " Isaiah HOGAN vs. Harmon HUSBANDS "HOGAN pays and be dammed." Eziekiel BRUMFIELD vs. James FERRELL Slander "Nonsense, let them agree for FERRELL has gone hellwards." Michael WILSON vs. David HARRIS "All HARRIS's are rogues." John EDWARDS vs. Phillip EDWARDS "Damed shame" Thos. FRAMMEL vs. Wm. DUMMEGAN "DUMMEGAN pays" Thomas RICHARDS vs. Robinson YORK "Plaintiff pays all cost and gets his body scourged for Blaspheming" Abner NASH vs. Joh CROOKER "NASH gets nothing" Valentine BRUSWELL vs. Dunun MCNEAL, Administrator of Hector MCNEAL. "File it and be darned." Silas BROWN vs. William LEWIS "The man was sick and it tis darned roguery." Solomon PERNIL vs. John FERRIL Executed on two negroes. "Negroes not worth a damn, cost exceeds the whole." page 49 "The following lines, a specimen of Rednap HOWELL's verse, show the public sentiment in regard to FANNING and FROHOCK, the Clerk of Court of Rowan:" "Says FROHOCK to FANNING, to tell the plain truth, When I came to this country I was but a youth, My father sent for me; I wan't worth a cross, And then my frist duty was to steal a horse. I quickly got credit and then ran away And haven't paid for him to this very day" "Says FANNING to FROHOCK, 'tis folly to lie; I rode an old mare that was blind of an eyes. Five shillings in money I had in my purse; My coat was patched, but not much the worse. But now we've got rich and its very well known, That we'll do very well if they'll let us alone." ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange USGenWeb Orange Co, NC Archives site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nc/orangnc.htm