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- An Act for preventing Tumultuous and riotous Assemblies
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 1.10
- Text of the Johnston Riot Act passed by the North Carolina Assembly in 1771, empowering the governor and colonial officials to use military force to put down uprisings of Regulators. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: legislation
- Address from inhabitants near Haw River
- The request of the Inhabitants of the West side of Haw river to the Assembly men and Vestry men of Orange County Whereas the Taxes in the County are larger according to the number of Taxables than adjacent counties and continues so year after year,...
- Format: petition
- An Address to the People of Granville County
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 1.2
- Excerpt of a speech by George Sims, Granville County school teacher and Regulator leader, in 1765. Sims blames corrupt lawyers and public officials for the problems of small farmers in the Piedmont. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: speech
- Aftermath of the Battle of Alamance
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 1.12
- Contemporary newspaper account of the prosecution and execution of Regulator leaders after the Battle of Alamance, May/June 1771. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: newspaper
- An authentick relation of the Battle of Alamance
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 1.11
- Contemporary newspaper account of the Battle of Alamance, fought between Regulators and militia led by Governor William Tryon on May 16, 1771. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: newspaper
- Cannon at Alamance Battleground
- A cannon sits in the grass at Alamance Battleground Historic Site in North Carolina, illustrating the kinds of weapons used during the 1764–1771 uprising of the Regulators against the colonial government in the state.
- Format: image/photograph
- Chaos in Hillsborough
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 1.9
- Contemporary newspaper report about mob violence in Hillsborough, North Carolina, in October 1770. The violence was part of a series of protests by Regulators angry with illegal fees and corrupt officials. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: newspaper
- Edmund Fanning
- Edmund Fanning, a colonial official in Hillsborough the 1760s and 1770s, was a target of the Regulators, who charged him with abusing his power. This engraving was made in the nineteenth century.
- Format: image/illustration
- Edmund Fanning reports to Governor Tryon
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 1.5
- Letter from Edmund Fanning to Governor William Tryon, April 23, 1768, reporting on the activities of the Regulators. Shows how the Regulators were seen by colonial leaders. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter
- Firing an 18th-century cannon
- Reenactors fire an eighteenth-century cannon at Alamance Battleground. The cannon is typical of the artillery used by Governor Tryon's troops during the Battle of Alamance in 1771.
- Format: video/video
- Map of North Carolina at the time of the Regulation (1765-1771)
- Map shows boundaries of counties as drawn in 1760 along with rivers, locations of colonial towns, and the Battle of Alamance.
- Format: image/map
- Orange County inhabitants petition Governor Tryon
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 1.6
- Petition from residents of Orange County, North Carolina, to Governor William Tryon, May 1768, apologizing for recent acts of violence by Regulators and asking him to address the illegal fees demanded by court officials. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: petition
- The Regulation in Anson County
- Rules and Resolves entered into by the Anson Mob. Vizt Whereas the Tax for the present year is very high part of which, unseen seem to many unlawful and unnecessary, that together with the great scarcity of Money that have put it out of our power...
- Format: letter
- Regulator monument in Hillsborough
- This small monument in Hillsborough, North Carolina, marks the spot where six Regulators were hanged on June 19, 1771, after their defeat at the Battle of Alamance. The monument, a white marble slab, can be found off of Cameron Street between the Board of...
- Format: image/photograph
- Regulator re-enactor with musket
- This historical re-enactor is dressed as a Regulator, a participant in a 1764–1771 North Carolina uprising against the corrupt colonial government in the state. He holds a musket, a muzzle-loaded long gun.
- Format: image/photograph
- Regulator re-enactor with musket and bayonet
- This historical re-enactor is dressed as a Regulator, a participant in a 1764–1771 North Carolina uprising against the corrupt colonial government in the state. He holds a musket, a muzzle-loaded long gun, with a bayonet attached to the muzzle. A bayonet...
- Format: image/photograph
- The Regulators
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 1.1
- In the 1760s residents of the North Carolina Piedmont protested high taxes, illegal fees, and corrupt officials. These protesters, who came to be known as the Regulators, began with civil disobedience and ended in violence at the Battle of Alamance in 1771.
- Format: article
- The Regulators organize
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 1.3
- Subscription to an organization of Regulators, January 1768. The subscribers agreed to resist paying taxes and fees they considred unlawful and to petition their representatives to change laws they considered unfair. Primary source includes historical commentary.
- Format: declaration
- "Some grievous oppressions"
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 1.4
- Excerpt of a sermon published by Herman Husband, Regulator leader, in 1770. Husband argued that North Carolina's colonial government was unfair to small farmers. Primary source includes historical commentary.
- Format: pamphlet
- Songs of the Regulators
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 1.7
- Lyrics to songs making fun of lawyers and colonial leaders who got rich at the expense of small farmers. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: poetry
