It is an interesting chapter in US history as was the early 1770s rebellions of The Green Mountain Boys in the Hampshire grants (Vermont). The NC Regulator rebellion was a tax rebellion and a protest of corrupt colonial government officials in the Piedmont.... However one reason the NC Assembly did not address their concerns was they were concentrating on resisting the Stamp and Townshed Acts. For the army Gov Trion raised to crush the rebels, most would later be the patriots in the Continental and Patriot army. Ironic huh. Due to their defeat in 1771 at Alamance, few families in the district would initially join the Patriot forces in 1775/76, because they would be fighting with the very people that had fought them in 1771. Gen Cornwallis, Tarleton and Col Ferguson would use these old feuds to enter many of the families in the Loyalist/Tory ranks.
@@STho205 I am glad you pointed out the Regulators largely did not join the Whig ranks a few years later. In fact, all of the known Regulators to served at Kings Mountain were in the Loyalist force under Ferguson. It is very interesting that the majority of corrupt officials were the ones who led the rebellion....
The SC Regulators, contrary to NC, was mostly a Vigilance Committee because out around 96 the colonial magistrates were not keeping order on the frontier. They seemed to fall on both sides of the Revolution later that decade. The Carolinas was a complex set of problems, grievances, alliances, feuds and it for tat.
A pre-revolutionary war event of disobedience. Interesting.
It is an interesting chapter in US history as was the early 1770s rebellions of The Green Mountain Boys in the Hampshire grants (Vermont).
The NC Regulator rebellion was a tax rebellion and a protest of corrupt colonial government officials in the Piedmont.... However one reason the NC Assembly did not address their concerns was they were concentrating on resisting the Stamp and Townshed Acts.
For the army Gov Trion raised to crush the rebels, most would later be the patriots in the Continental and Patriot army.
Ironic huh.
Due to their defeat in 1771 at Alamance, few families in the district would initially join the Patriot forces in 1775/76, because they would be fighting with the very people that had fought them in 1771.
Gen Cornwallis, Tarleton and Col Ferguson would use these old feuds to enter many of the families in the Loyalist/Tory ranks.
@@STho205 I am glad you pointed out the Regulators largely did not join the Whig ranks a few years later. In fact, all of the known Regulators to served at Kings Mountain were in the Loyalist force under Ferguson. It is very interesting that the majority of corrupt officials were the ones who led the rebellion....
The SC Regulators, contrary to NC, was mostly a Vigilance Committee because out around 96 the colonial magistrates were not keeping order on the frontier. They seemed to fall on both sides of the Revolution later that decade.
The Carolinas was a complex set of problems, grievances, alliances, feuds and it for tat.