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- 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
- The Edenton "Tea Party"
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 2.7
- In October 1774, several prominent women of Edenton gathered at the home of Elizabeth King, with Penelope Barker presiding, to sign a petition supporting the American cause. This letter describing the event, which came to be known as the Edenton Tea Party, appeared in a London newspaper. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: letter
- 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
- The First Provincial Congress
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 2.6
- After the Boston Tea Party in December 1773, Britain retaliated with a series of punitive measures that colonists called the "intolerable acts." In August 1774, North Carolina's colonial leaders met at New Bern to set out their princples, to plan further opposition to Britain, and to choose delegates to a Continental Congress. This excerpt from the proceedings of that First Provincial Congress includes historical commentary.
- Format: document
- A Pledge to Violate the Stamp Act
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 2.5
- In 1766, during the colonial protests of the Stamp Act, some residents of eastern North Carolina, including many colonial leaders, signed this pledge to refuse to pay the tax. Primary source includes historical commentary.
- Format: newspaper
- 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
- 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
- The Stamp Act crisis in North Carolina
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 2.4
- In 1765, North Carolinians joined their fellow American colonists in protesting the Stamp Act, passed by Parliament that year, which taxed various kinds of public papers. Protesters, arguing that the tax was illegal without the consent of colonial assemblies, marched to the home of the tax collector and forced him to resign.
- Format: article
