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- Colonial and Regulator years · 1680–1774
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Chief Justice Martin Howard and two associate justices hold the Hillsborough superior court term
Martin Howard, Maurice Moore and Richard Henderson sat at the Hillsborough District Superior Court term in which Edmund Fanning was found guilty and Regulators including William Butler were tried.
People: Maurice Moore · Richard Henderson · Edmund Fanning · William Butler (Regulator) · Herman Husband
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A Hillsborough jury finds Edmund Fanning guilty on an indictment
In the same superior court term that tried the Regulator leaders, the King's indictment against Edmund Fanning went to a jury on September 27, which found him guilty. The day before, Herman Husband had surrendered William Butler to the court, and both men entered 500 pound bonds to abide its sentence.
Part of The Regulator crisis, 1766–1771 · 90 events
People: Edmund Fanning · Herman Husband · William Butler (Regulator) · Richard Henderson · Maurice Moore · Martin Howard
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Grand jury indictments for rout against James Hunter are quashed at the Hillsborough superior court
The grand jury returned three indictments for rout naming James Hunter with William Butler, Ninian Hamilton and other Regulators. The court quashed all three for an irregular return and ordered the attorney general to prepare new bills.
Part of The Regulator crisis, 1766–1771 · 90 events
People: William Butler (Regulator) · Richard Henderson · Peter Craven · Maurice Moore · Martin Howard
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The Assembly expels Orange County's member Herman Husband and the Council orders his arrest
The House of Assembly resolved that Husband, a principal promoter of the late riots in Orange County and publisher of a seditious letter printed over James Hunter's name, be expelled. The same day the Council unanimously advised his arrest and the Chief Justice issued a warrant; he lay in the New Bern jail until a grand jury found no bill on February 8, 1771.
Part of The Regulator crisis, 1766–1771 · 90 events
People: Herman Husband · James Hunter · William Tryon · Martin Howard
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A special court at New Bern presents and indicts Husband, Hunter, Butler and Howell for the Hillsborough riot
Sitting under Chief Justice Martin Howard with Maurice Moore and Richard Henderson, the special court of oyer and terminer at New Bern received a grand jury presentment against the Regulators who in September last 'broke up that Court' at Hillsborough, and returned indictments for riot against Herman Husband, James Hunter, William Butler and Rednap Howell among others.
Part of The Regulator crisis, 1766–1771 · 90 events
People: Richard Henderson · Herman Husband · James Hunter · William Butler (Regulator) · Maurice Moore · Martin Howard
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Tryon's army returns to Hillsborough with its Regulator prisoners
The army came back on June 14 and the next day marched through town with drums beating and oak sprigs in their hats before camping a mile east. The special court of oyer and terminer, opened May 30 and adjourned to await the prisoners, then resumed and tried fourteen men for treason.
Part of The Regulator crisis, 1766–1771 · 90 events
People: William Tryon · Martin Howard · Richard Henderson · Maurice Moore
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Governor Martin and his council at Hillsborough forbid the export of wheat, rye and flour
Told of a long drought and failing corn crops in the western parts of the province, the council sitting at Hillsborough advised an embargo, and Martin proclaimed a three-month ban on shipping wheat, rye or flour out of the province.
People: Martin Howard · Alexander McCulloch
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Governor Martin summons the judges to Hillsborough over the cases of the outlawed Regulators
After Regulator leaders offered to surrender, Martin called the judges to Hillsborough and asked in writing whether their outlawry could be completed and whether they could still be tried. Writing from Hillsborough on August 30, he told London the troubles had been provoked by extortion from attorneys, clerks and other officers.
People: Richard Henderson · Martin Howard · James Hunter
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