Dispatches and letters from William Tryon to the Earl of Hillsborough, concerning the War of the Regulation
William Tryon's dispatches and letters to the Earl of Hillsborough on the War of the Regulation, the late 1760s uprising of backcountry farmers against county officials centered on Hillsborough and Orange County and ended in battle in 1771. Reproduced by Adam Matthew Digital in 2019 from Colonial Office CO 5/302. Tryon, royal governor from 1765 to 1771, reports on the assembly, taxes and finance, Anglican clergy, ordnance and ships, provincial troops and militia, riot at the court, the trials of Regulators and the military expedition.