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Peter Craven

Peter Craven was a Regulator from the part of Orange County that later became Randolph County, and he is believed to have been a potter. He is counted among the leaders of the action taken in 1768 after a horse was seized from a Regulator for unpaid taxes, and Governor Tryon refused him a pardon for his part in it.

Source: North Carolina Historic Sites: Alamance Battleground Book of Remembrance (2021), p. 21

1712–1791 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. Regulators rescue a seized horse at Hillsborough After the sheriff seized a Regulator's horse for an unpaid levy, Regulators rode into Hillsborough, took the horse back and fired shots into the roof of Edmund Fanning's house; John Gray's letter to Fanning put them at about 100, Husband's Impartial Relation at sixty or seventy. Officials sought the arrest of William Butler, Peter Craven and Ninian Bell Hamilton as ringleaders. People: Herman Husband, Edmund Fanning, Peter Craven, William Butler (Regulator) Place: Hillsborough · Also named: John Gray, Ninian Bell HamiltonColonial and State Records of North Carolina, vol. 7, pp. 705-706: Letter from John Gray to Edmund Fanning, April 9, 1768 · Also: Internet Archive: Hermon Husband, An Impartial Relation
  2. 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. People: James Hunter, William Butler (Regulator), Richard Henderson, Maurice Moore, Martin Howard, Peter Craven Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Ninian HamiltonSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Colonial and State Records of North Carolina, Minutes of the Hillsborough District Superior Court (Sep 22 to Oct 1, 1768)
  3. Tryon pardons the 1768 protesters except thirteen named leaders His proclamation left out men including James Hunter, Herman Husband, Ninian Bell Hamilton and William Payne. People: James Hunter, Herman Husband, Peter Craven Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Ninian Hamilton, Matthew Hamilton, William Payne, Ninian Bell HamiltonLefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 35 · Also: Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary

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Hillsborough District: Trial, Reference and Appearance Docket Superior Court, Part 1, 1768-1773

United States. District Court (North Carolina: Hillsborough District) · 1768

Hillsborough District Superior Court trial, reference and appearance docket, part 1, 1768 to 1773, from the colonial court at Hillsborough. Suits over debt, contracts, slander, detinue and trover fill it, and names include Edmund Fanning, William Tryon, Martin Armstrong and William Few. 299 images.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Digital Collections record: Craven, Peter, approximately 1712-1791.

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Letters transmitted to the Governor of Orange County regarding the rebellious and civil disturbances in several provinces

1768

Letters sent to the governor in 1768 concerning rebellious and civil disturbances in Orange County and other provinces. Edmund Fanning, Francis Nash, William Butler, Peter Craven and James Hasell are named, with Hillsborough, Brunswick, Halifax and Wilmington as places and riot, militia, warrants and troop movements as topics. Cited to Colonial Office volume CO 5/312, North Carolina correspondence of the Secretary of State, 1768 to 1769.

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