War of the Regulation Papers, WREG

[Item title], Box 1, War of the Regulation Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.

The War of the Regulation Papers is composed of original archival materials documenting the Regulator Movement in North Carolina, covering the period from 1768 to 1779. This war period records group contains materials donated from the public since 1903 to the North Carolina Historical Commission (the precursor of the State Archives of North Carolina). Some of the materials may have been taken from state government records groups prior to the 1960s. The War of the Regulation Papers current arrangement was completed in the 1960s by the State Archives. The collection contains military unit accounts, receipts, court and trial records, expense accounts, warrants and prisoner records, pay rolls, order books, and other records from this movement. These materials are not complete sets of records, but individual materials that has come in piecemeal over the years. The records constitutes what survives and is not currently in official government records series at the State Archives. The current war records group is arranged in 3 Hollinger boxes.

The papers are currently arranged as follows in the boxes:

Box 1

1768-1771: Undated anonymous statement in support of Colonel [Edmund] Fanning; 1768: Governor Tryon's account of expenses of the Rowan Regiment; 1768: Pay rolls of the Granville militia keeping the peace at Hillsborough; 1768: Robert Harris' account for the Granville Brigade; 1768: Warrants for the Mecklenburg Battalion; 1768: For guarding two prisoners; 1770: Deposition in defense of Herman Husband; 1770: Council of War at Lt. Col. Bryan's house (Johnston County) regarding 100 Regulator prisoners; May 1770: Guilford County: taxes paid Governor Tryon; 1770: Petition against the Regulators; Jan.-Feb. 1771: For guarding prisoners; March 1771: Witnesses' receipts for testifying against the insurgents; Jan. 1771: Secretary's account of militia commissions; Dec. 1770-May 1771: Governor Tryon's accounts; 1768, Feb.-Jun. 1771: Riding express for Governor Tryon; Feb. 1771: Expenses of Craven Regiment muster; April 1771: Thomas Sitgreaves' receipt of pay for taking Hermon Husband the night he was expelled from the Assembly

1771: Pay roll of the Orange Regiment; 1771: Pay rolls of the Dobbs militia; 1771: Pay roll of Captain Thompson's Company; pay roll of Captain Thackston's Company; 1771: Pay rolls of the Rowan Regiment; March-April 1771: Enlistment certificates: Colonel Moore's Artillery Company; April-May 1771: New Hanover Artillery accounts; July 4, 1771: (Colonel Moore); Repair to artillery wagon; April-May 1771: Enlistment certificates: Cumberland And Pitt Counties; April 1771: Captain Robert Salter's accounts (Pitt); April-July 1771: Colonel Shaw's accounts; April-June 1771: Captain Gideon Wright's accounts (Tryon and Surry Counties); 1771: Accounts of and allowances to the Rowan Regiment (Colonel Lindsay); 1771: Captain Moses Martin's Company: accounts of and allowances to; July 1771: General Waddell's account; April 1771: Mecklenburg Detachment's account; May 1771: Orange Detachment's accounts (Thomas Hart); April 1771: Colonel Caswell's account for colors; 1771: Deputy Adjutant General Robert Campbe11's pay and allowances; June-July 1771: Accounts of Richard B1ackledge, Commissary

Additions to the War of the Regulation Papers [These additional documents were transferred September 9, 1971, from Secretary of State Papers--Court Records, 1766-1769 (S.S. 312)]: May 1-2, 1768: Writ-at-large for the arrest of Regulators; Writ for the arrest of Herman Husband; Writ for the imprisonment of Husband; 1769-1770: [Papers relating to the trial of Edmund Fanning, March 22, 1769]; 1769--Case and opinion of William de Grey, Attorney General of Great Britain; 1769-1770--Presentment and opinion, and case and opinion of John Morgan, M.P. and attorney of the Inner Temple; 1769--Queries for opinions of British jurists on the case of Fanning; 1770: [A Bill to be an act entitled, An Additional and Explanatory Act to an act entitled, An Act for Regulating the Several Officers' Fees Within this Province and to Ascertain the Method of Paying the Same; and for Taxing Law Suits]

Box 2

1771: Pay to individuals serving in the expedition April-July 1771 Accounts for carrying provisions and munitions up the Neuse; August 1771 Return down the Neuse River.

March-Aug. 1771: Receipts for rations; provision returns; for wagons and teams; hauling provisions; for guns and swords impressed or lost; for horses, saddles, and bridles impressed or lost; flour invoices; accounts of cattle and other provisions

April 1771: John Sasser's account for various services; May 1771: Claims for damage done by troops, and John Husband's claim for destroyed estate; 1771: For weapons and provisions taken by Fanning and his men; June 1771: For pasturing cattle; May-June 1771: Taking up a deserter, pursuing outlaws, and making hand cuffs and irons: May 1771: Accounts of horses and articles taken from the insurgents; July 1771: Sale of horses taken from the Regulators; June 1771: Expedition to Quaker Meadows and Silver Creek; June 1771: Expenses at Bethabara; June 1771: Ferriage of Craven and Carteret companies on their return; June 1771-May 1772 Medical expenses; 1771: For guarding the jail and court at Salisbury Miscellaneous accounts and allowances; 1771-1773: Depositions that John Husband, Samuel Paul and Valentine Ray were not Regulators Clerk of the Crown at trial of Regulators; James Green's services as amory and swearing in of 3,000 Regulators; 1771-1779, 1785: Pensions for soldiers disabled at Alamance; Extract from court minutes of the Superior Court at Hillsborough, September 22, 1770; Contemporary history of the Regulators; and Copies of letters and articles dealing with the War of the Regulation

Box 3

Order Book of the Carteret Detachment, 1771: Order Book: "Orders Given out by His Excellency Governor Tryon to the Provincials of North Carolina Raised to March against the Insurgents" (includes a return of the army, May 22, 1771)

Unidentified pay roll and account book (photocopies)
"Journal of the Expedition against the Insurgents in the Western Frontiers of North Carolina begun the 20th April 1771" [NOTE: A Sauthier map, "Plan of the Camp and Battle of Alamance", has been detached from this journal and placed in the Map Collection 173 I.1]

Hugh Waddell's Orderly Book, May 5 - June 11, 1771

The Regulator Movement in the middle of the 18th-century North Carolina was a rebellion initiated by residents of the North Carolina colony's backcountry, who believed that royal government officials were charging them excessive fees, falsifying records, and engaging in other mistreatments. The movement's name refers to the desire of these citizens to regulate their own affairs. Called the War of the Regulation or the Regulator War, the movement culminated in the Battle of Alamance in May 1771.