Here are a couple of sources on the Regulators. From: "North Carolina Research, Genealogy and Local History", by Helen F.M. Leary and Maurice R. Stirewalt "As a rule, regulation movements (that is, private citizens banding together to regulate fellows of lawless disposition, disorderly lives, and evil conversation) occur on frontiers. On the Pacific frontier of the 1850s such bands of private citizens were called Vigilantes; on the South Carolina frontier of the 1760s they were called Regulators." From: "The Pendleton Legacy, an illustrated history of the district", by Beth Ann Klosky "During this period the frontier was plagued by cattle thieves, aided and abetted by Indian stragglers remaining in the area. The back country's only legal authority was a justice of the peace. There was no court nearer than Charleston; thus cattle thieves could not be brought to trial even when they were caught. When the situation became intolerable the settlers took action on their own. By written agreement they formed a committee similar to the Vigilantes of the West, calling themselves Regulators as opposed to a group known as Scovils, who claimed the right as British subjects to trial in court. When the state was divided into Judicial districts in 1769 and court was established in Ninety Six, the dispute was settled temporarily, but upon the outbreak of the Revolutionary War the Regulators became Whigs and the Scovillites became Tories." I hope this helps. Bunnie Gilmer Bonnie S. "Bunnie" Gilmer [email protected] BSG Genealogical Research http://www.kendawg.net/genealogy/