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Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Regulator Papers, #626-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Published in: William S. Powell et al., eds., The Regulators of North Carolina: a Documentary History, 1759-1776 (Raleigh, 1971).

Acquisitions Information

Received from Margaret Kingsbury of Wilmington, N.C.

Received from Justin Turner of Los Angeles, Calif., 1950.

Received from Mary E. Lazenby of Statesville, N.C.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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• Butler, William, fl. 1768-1773.
• North Carolina--History--Regulator Insurrection, 1766-1771.
• North Carolina--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Causes.

• Butler Family papers (#3766).

The Regulator movement in colonial North Carolina was a rebellion initiated by residents of the colony's inland region who believed that royal government officials were charging them excessive fees, falsifying records, and engaging in other mistreatments. Led by men such as Rednap Howell, James Hunter, Herman Husband, and William Butler (fl. 1768-1773), the Regulators organized a resistance to these abuses, first through protest and ultimately through violence.

The collection includes miscellaneous letters and other papers (in part photocopies and typed transcriptions) pertaining to the Regulator movement in North Carolina and its aftermath, chiefly papers of William Butler, a leader. Among the original documents are a letter from John Stringer, May 1768; a letter from James Hunter to William Butler, November 1772; a letter fragment from William Tyron to William Butler, August 1768; memoranda concerning a Regulator meeting in April 1768; and an undated oath of allegiance to the crown and to North Carolina.