The Regulators of North Carolina 1771 and Scottish Settlers in Colonial America
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- čas přidán 22. 04. 2020
- Fans of the popular series Outlander have already been introduced to the history of the Scottish Regulators of North Carolina. However, the events leading up to the Battle of Alamance are largely overshadowed by the events effecting the primary characters. The main storyline of season 5 centers around Jamie and Claire's family at Frasers Ridge, and the actions of Murtagh and his band of rebellious Scotsmen are frequently discussed.
The month of April is Scottish American Heritage Month, and it seemed a fitting time to discuss the role of Scottish settlers in one of the first open rebellion against British rule in the colonies. In this episode, we will discuss the reasons why the Scottish people chose to settle in this area of the New World, the events that led to the Regulator movement, and what came about following their decisive defeat at the Battle of Alamance.
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I found this list of the names of those who were members of the Regulator movement. Check it out to see if you might be a descendant: haygenealogy.com/hay/patriots/RegulatorsList.html
Now I’ll have to check my records. I was hoping there was a list! Thanks :D
I never heard that once in my life April is Scottish History Month... Shocking...
@@randyross5630 it's my back yard I live in Alamance Co. NC lived 2 Miles from the battlefield on a creek . The historic site has a list and genealogical list contact them.
@@ditch1776 That is not what I am saying, you surely jump to conclusions, so I can be nearly assured most of your Conclusions in Life are Flawed... How about you impart your own biases into future equations... How about that, catch me outside....
@@randyross5630 as per usual some nobody on the internet gets triggered. My comment is they have ACTUAL LISTS, and genealogy record at the battlefield. Get your panties out of a wad and take it for what the comment says not your triggered interpretation of meaning.
My 5x grandfather, Thomas Owen Carpenter, was a NC Regulator.
Mine as well. Josiah Rogers. Nice to meet you.
Can you pls tell me what were their purpose and what did they do??? I'm really interested! Ty
My family too
1:00 they were certainly not the first Scots to immigrate to North Carolina. In my own lineage, there’s 2 Scottish ancestors living in the Perquimans and Pasquatank areas as early as 1670.
Mine as well. 👍🏻
We were adventurous for sure
Check out the Scottish Enlitenment. We truly changed the world
Some of mine are Ross McCall McCurry Todd Mitchell Underwood. My ancestors are spread out all through NC now today. My second home! My parents were the first generation from their families to leave NC for hundreds of years. Genealogy and history are fascinating. I also submitted my DNA on ancestry a few years back and it’s been a great tool.
My sixth great grandfather Enoch Pugh was hanged after the Battle of Alamance. He was of Welsh background. Looking at a list of the Regulators there were many Scots, Welsh and Germans.
My grand pappys friends family was hanged for growing weed after the war too! We praticley brothers
Was Pughs rock on the Battlefield named for him?
@@geneoverby6033 yes. Some articles mistakenly name his brother James Pugh.
While I did enjoy this at the start it almost appears that the Scots had a choice to go to America. Between the punishment from Culloden and the Highland Clearances the time period from 1745 - 1860 many were forced to leave.
1740 my Great Grandfather Thomas Ross came to this Country and fought. Also a 1st cousin to General Burnside. I love my scottish heritage.
I read the Scottish had an uprising in England and that many were wanted men or felt some compulsion to leave. Many 'settlers' left the UK against their will. OF COURSE, the Scots-Irish would fight the British in America! Glad they did.
The NC Regulators were Scots-Irish, and not Scottish, as were your ancestors, who are also my ancestors. You should know the difference.
@@HarryHollertheWolf You mean Ulster-Scot
My first ancestor came to this country from England in 1700. Beaufort Co. Other Scottish ancestors came here around 1710 when New Bern was incorporated. My mothers childhood home on George St, was sold to reconstruct the Tryon Palace. I lived 5 miles from Alamance battleground off Alamance Rd near Burlington. Used to be a 'regular', pun intended, at battlefield. Miss living in the area. Now, live in NC close to Danville VA. The Civil War had my Great Grandfather NC 4th infantry and his brother, who died.
That's amazing! Thanks for sharing : )
thanks. now i know why great-grampy (many generations back) left Northampton, NC for *western* KY and then *western* TN. They were farmers. I may be closer to solving a piece of the puzzle.
My great great grandfather was a member of these and for his service in the revolutionary war he was given land in ga and that's how my farthers side of my family wound up in GA
My Gregg/MacGregor ancestors came through the ports of Delaware and Philadelphia in 1682 and eventually settling in Chester and Lancaster county Pennsylvania long before this took place.
My great grandfather x6 was Robert Thompson. Thank you for sharing this video. Cindy Thompson Mecham .
Very cool!
my family came from the highlands to cape fear area in 1773. thanks for this video!
My grandfathers Peter and Thomas Craven were there as Regulators.
I did not know of this history
Thank you for enlightenig me.
My 8X Grandfather Was John Foard, fought in the Clear creek Militia in the Revolutionary War also an original signer of the mecklenburg independence
I'm hoping for the story of Franklin soon! That little bit of information has me VERY interested. I have ancestors who were in/around Anson/Mecklenburg/Chatham NC counties at the time of the Revolution and they ended up in Tennessee and I'm trying to understand how/why.
Thank you for this!
Mine were all located there. They wanted to leave the British safe area of flat lands in Carolinas to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. They were the 1st people in America to put on paper a sort of constitution to set a form of privileges for the common people. They stressed freedom & lack of government involvement in their private lives. They lived in Forts because it was still extremely dangerous, with Native Americans living nearby. Generations grow up never knowing a year of peace. They lived simular to The Scots in their own clan groups. Yet, they opened their clans for all people. Many run away slaves & Native American people married into these communities. My people were from around Elizabethton, around the shoals. They wanted to stay out of the American Revolution. They only got involved after Col Banastrate Tarleton literally butchered a militia lead by Beaufort in Waxhaw, their neighbors, kin, & freinds. The British were so cruel that they refused quarter to militiamen waving white flags. In fact, Tarleton & his butchers trotted the field at least 4 times in order to bayonet men that were still alive, at the bottom of piles of dead butchered soldiers. Yet, this filled the Over Mountain Men with resolve & they decided to get involved. Their bravery turned the tide of a stalemate in The War of Independence & led the men directly up to Yorktown, where Washington & his continental troops from the north, & Col Marion, Morgan, with their southern Patriots from the south, & with help from the French navy shelling the British from the James River. The battle lasted weeks & the British had 7,000 surrendered troops. Gen Corwallis was so distraught that he refused to attend the official surrender ceremony. He was a member of British aristocracy, so in his words he couldn't see how an army full of peasant farmers managed to beat the most professional, expensive, & most highly trained army in the world.
I am here because I just watched a cool music video about the Regulators called - 'GTO Anthem'
Such awesome history!
My Grandmother's ancestors were Regulators. Quakers. After Battle of Alamance, they moved to Surry Cty, and Grayson Cty VA where she was born. There is a list where the men signed a grievance to the state.......
How exciting! Thank you for sharing, I will do some research and try to find the list.
@@historyswhoyesterdaysnatio5197 - Google "Regulator's Petition" Those who signed will probably be listed at the end of the petition. My 5th Grandfather was captured at Alamance and had to declare allegiance to the King of England.
@@fjoiner9051 Thank you guys! I found a list of some of the names here haygenealogy.com/hay/patriots/RegulatorsList.html
That list is in my family tree, Rogers family.
I'm not a Quaker but have always been so interested in them, was going to go to Friends U. Still secretly hope to :)
MY 6th Great Grandfather James "The Regulator" Few was the first to be hanged at the battle of Alamance at the order of William Tryon, he was most certainly not Scottish but of English heritage.
Same. My Great Grandfather 6x, Christopher "The Regulator" Nation, was one of the 13 named unpardoned Regulators via Proclamation and was of English heritage.
It was Pugh not Few. And incorrect letter about the Regulators gave his name as James. New research by the North Caroline Historical Society point out it was James' brother Enoch, my 6th great grandfather, who was hanged.
@@bobapbob5812 James Pugh was the sharpshooter at the battle of Alamance and was hanged in Hillsborough on the 19th June approx 1 month after the battle of Alamance as history states however this may be refuted as evidence suggests he may have been alive as late as 1810 and seems likely it may have actually been your X6 GG Enoch who was hanged instead. Despite this, please do not be mistaken that it was indeed my x6 G-Grandfather James Few who was hanged on the battlefield at Alamance immediately following the battle, this is well known and you will need to provide irrefutable evidence to even consider it being otherwise. I've spoken to quite a number of Historians on the subject the past 2 years and trawled through all the history books on the subject let alone that which was passed down through the family so i merely determine that you either lack knowledge on this subject or have mistakenly jumped to a conclusion due to similarities in the names James Few vs James Pugh. Do me a favour, research his brother William Edward Few, 1st Senator of Georgia who ratified and signed the US constitution, he was also a NY judge and I have all the paperwork in which he was successful in reimbursement for damages caused by the crown to our family farm in Hillsborough (a Mill and farmland) and the treasonous murderous hanging of his brother/my x6 GG James Few in 1771.
@@stihl888 no he wasn’t. James Pugh died in 1810. Enoch died in 1771. I went over the information at the Alamance Visitor Center. I went to the hanging ceremony. The article in detail in the historical journal was for sale. The author writes about how the incorrect data about James came about.
@@bobapbob5812 Ok great so it seems as per my last post we're in agreement it was 1810 then? Anyway i'm not an expert on the Pugh subject other than some seem to mistake him for my x6 GG James Few which is what seems to have occured in reference to your initial statement that it was "Pugh not Few"? the fact remains that it was my x6 Great Grandfather James "The Regulator" Few who was hung on the 17th May 1771 immediately after the battle, anything else is irrelevant or just another case of mistaken Few vs Pugh identity.
I do have North Carolina Jacobites in my tree but no regulators. I also have an illegitimate descendant of Charles Radclyffe, last noble executed for the Jacobite Rebellion. She went to Virginia though.
My family the Mclawhorns are some of those who settled in North Carolina, & married into the Harris families, & other family tree branches.
Very interesting! I think that I've heard about the Regulators before but I knew next to nothing about them. It seems a bit peculiar to me that this topic is not mentioned more in the popular descriptions of the situation leading to the American Revolution.
On a side note, it was also interesting to me to hear about the presence of members of the Moravian Church (alongside Quakers and Baptists) in the area and their involvement in the rebellion.
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. While researching for this video, I found a book written by President Jimmy Carter named Hornet's Nest about the Regulator movement and it's role in the American Revolution. The main character in the novel is Moravian. I'm only on the second chapter, but if you're interested in the topic you might enjoy reading it : )
@@historyswhoyesterdaysnatio5197 Thanks for the recommendation!
Adding it to my list too!!
My 5th Great Grandfather is Benjamin Merrill
He was my 5th G Grandfather as well.
@@overhillndalewithjo9723 Captain Merrell is also a direct ancestor of mine.
My 6th great grandfather Enoch Pugh was one of those regulators hanged.
Scottish Revulators?
I've never seen this show, and don't have Scottish ancestors. But my great x 5 grandfather was a Regulator and later fought in the Revolutionary War. His father or grandfather was born in Wales, but so far no Scots.
Typos from me again. This tablet exists to embarrass me. XD
There was a very large Scottish population in the area, and so many of the regulators were of Scotch descent. However, there were also many other cultures who were heavily involved with the uprising, including those with Welsh heritage. I'm happy to hear that you have a personal connection to this event! Thank you for your thoughful comment.
@@historyswhoyesterdaysnatio5197 My 5x(?) Frandfather was Capt. Benjamin Merrill. He was hanged after the battle.
These Merrill are from Warwickshire and Nottinghamshire, but my FNA shows 20% Scottish and some % of Wrlsh I can't recall. It's the only part of yge family whi could have given me Scottish blood. It's my lowest percentage, but I have a Saltyre flying on my flagpole. 🏴
Visit Hillsborough The Regulators were really active there, there's road markers, and one of the signers of the declaration of independence is buried behind the museum in the church cemetery that was Hillsborough nc military academy I just did a video on the button at the grounds, and one or William hooper he was the singer and played a major role in the for the First Provincial Congress meeting 2 took place in hillsborough I think William hooper was also dragged threw the streets by Regulators before he did all this, outlander parts are based in hillsborough I did a few videos on it but I'm putting together a piece for a better one soon I randomly found this grave
The first Scots in numbers were redemptioners from the battle od Dunbar in 1661
Dear god, just how many people in this comment section are my distant relations!?!
Sincerely,
A Californian
Brings me here from outlander movie
Anyone else watching this for history class?
Not taught in revisionist history 101 even in Alamance Co where I live.
History is repeating itself
Nice
We're these not some of the same people from Cape Fear who later fought for the British against the the Whigs at Moores Creek Bridge?
Let me set this straight. The Scotch-Irish were Ulster people from Northern Ireland and settled throughout the Piedmont. The MAJORITY, almost all Highland Scots in North Carolina settled in present day Cumberland, Hoke, Robeson, Harnett, Moore, Richmond, and SCOTLAND counties, this is Eastern North Carolina! Highland-Scots and the Scots-Irish (or anyone for that matter) didn’t settle in the Appalachian mountains until after the Revolutionary war. Outlander has made this fallacy a common misconception (because its more romantic that they be in the mountains, and that way the show doesn’t have to wrestle with slavery in the eastern part of the state). Be careful not to confuse Highland-Scots with the Scots-Irish. Highland-Scots settled in the eastern part of North Carolina, whilst the Scots-Irish settled in the piedmont region and were the largest party in the Regulation movement in north-central North Carolina along with Germans, and a FEW English and Highland Scots that were not part of greater ethnic settlements in those reasons. Outlander got this wrong!
Thank you for your thoughtful comments. Yes, it is true that the Highland Scots and Scots-Irish initially settled in different areas, and that they did not move westward collectively until after the Revolutionary war, thank you for clarifying. While there wasn't an extremely large Welsh population in the area, there was a settlement of Welsh Presbyterians in the Northeast Cape Fear River near modern day Duplin county. They arrived as early as 1725.
Not true about the Welsh families. I had a dna done and all my mothers ancestry is welsh, scott, irish with little german, scandinavian, belgian, hungry, austrian and french in it
My Great Grandfather 6x was Christopher "The Regulator" Nation, one of the 13 named unpardoned via Proclamation of Gov. Tryon, and was of British Descent, not Scottish. His Father, Christopher, Sr. was also active in the Regulator movement, but on the legal side, not the protestor side. His Father was John "Servant Boy" Nation, our first ancestor to arrive from England as an indentured servant in the early 1700s, settling in Rowan County, NC.
8:40 is what should be done to our corrupt politicians present day. I’d say we’re real close to following our ancestors scorched earth policy. It’s overdue
My Mc Curdy family is from this
Peter Craven was also a potter.
Interesting video, I had never even heard of this before. You make interesting history content. Maybe you would also enjoy Micahistory 2 as well!
Thank you! I just subscribed to your channel.
@@historyswhoyesterdaysnatio5197 thank you so much. I'll sub to you as well. I've already watched all your videos anyways
I am an ancestor of Col. Fredrick Hambright
The Regulator War was NOT a rebellion against the British Crown. It was a rebellion against corrupt NC officials, who were also North Carolinians. The Regulators sent several letters to the King of England clearly stating they were loyal British subjects and they needed help to fix the corrupt local officials. It was also not a Highland Scots movement. It was a poor backcountry settler movement composed of English, German, Scottish, and Scots Irish.
Not as bad as it is today
Just shows early corruption an the same thing happens today some things never change
I just made a video and visited this place that over 200 years ago, a group of farmers from North Carolina came together to form the Regulators. Fed up with high taxes and corrupt Royal officials, the Regulator Movement lasted for several years ending with the hanging of six of its leaders in Hillsborough, NC. They beat and destroyed the local judge Fanning, Edmund home now a museum, and dragged another man throughout the streets name William hooper a founding father of our country I think this event made Mr Hooper trade sides I did a video at this place on a military button, and a tour of the museum and flagged Mr Hoppers grave it's all on my channel if you'd like to see
My Ancestry DNA proves Sturt is my family though Mc Curdy from Isle of Bute Scotland
I Have Scottish Ancestors
The history of aces ♠️ and eights 🎱, the use of the ace of spades by a.b. all black, airborne and that known as the murder of wild bill hickocks.
It does not correspond with n.c. but also the puritan settlers and trail of tears, even the mormon church in colorado.
2:04- There are no “SCOTCH” people, only SCOTS. They were SCOTS-Irish.
Jacobite isn't like Jacob-ite it's more like Jack-o-bite.
You are mistaken fyi.
Eh Emmmmm !Exactly whom was the Scott’s .. Because it is established Queen Ann was a Dark Skinned individual..... soooo who are the Scott’s
what? She was a mainstay in the royal court playing courtship games with the highest society and married the king, that group back then even described her skin as swarthy, olive, and no one protested or wrote in the many diaries she was as you say "dark skinned individual."
Please don't compound your ignorance any further its SCOT S N
DNA says I'm 35% scotish
.no luck in finding ancestors
The North Carolina Regulators were Scots-Irish, and not Scottish. There is a massive difference between the two. I know because I am descendant of the Sctos-Irish of Colonial North Carolina. It is insulting that you have conflated the two.
Multiple settlements thrived in North Carolina and included people from various parts of Europe. Yes, there were many Scots-Irish settlers who arrived there first in large numbers. There were also a lot of Scottish people who moved to North Carolina after the last Jacobite rebellion. Scots Irish people are actually Scottish. The majority of Ulster-Scots had lived in the lowlands and border areas before moving their families to the Ulster Plantation and then to America a century or so later. I'm sorry that you are insulted. I too have multiple ancestors from North Carolina, including the Duke family from England, the Pike family who helped establish the first Quaker settlement in the region, and even a few late arrivals from the highlands who converted to Protestantism in the early 1800s. The two groups that are conflated much more often are the Scots-Irish Presbyterians who began arriving in America in the 1600s and the Catholic Irish populations who came in the 19th and 20th century, settling in urban areas of Boston and New York. I hope that cleared things up a bit.
@@historyswhoyesterdaysnatio5197 then I'm sure you know most all the Scottish that lived in the colonies fought WITH the crown during the Revolutionary War. You're just pandering for the outlander bump in the algorithm.
@ditch1776 Thanks for the feedback. I am aware of that, but this is about a specific group of Scottish people. I care about this particular event because my own ancestors were a part of it. And as far as pandering...I've been making videos for three years and am not yet monetized. This is a passion project, not a way to make extra income.
@@historyswhoyesterdaysnatio5197 have you been there.
Been where? To Scotland or to North Carolina? I have been to NC, but have never visited Scotland. I'd love to though.
Damm scots the ruined Scotland
Um...?
Scots ruined Scotland?
@@liliannamathers3428 it's a joke if u dont get it that's ok
BROTHERS AMD SISTERS ARE NATURALLY ENIMES
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Love the talk..lands purchased by them...purchased by whom? They all write as a pretext that natives were not there. Bogus
Can we all just write a big note "One filled with shame for everything I didn't do" ?
Do you even know any people native to this country? For one, they hate being called Native American. They also hate what I'm aware I'm doing right now - explaining them to people who think it is righteous to keep complaining.
My friends on the Rez in South Dakota really need help. I've tried fund raising, but it turns out people would rather complain on CZcams and not actually help people in need NOW.
@@liliannamathers3428 both my grandmother's were native. I'll say it again ...both are native white generations natives left of those that died..and you know about whining when fronted with unjust acceptance..you deal with it ..and do it in response. They hate being native..lol..hahaha..no they hate being talked about in third person.. I'm not on a reservation. In fact the family has very decent backgrounds. More honesty than the plight to control everything. When I get over it..its not because I have no understanding..spotting repeats of the disastrous control others love for money and a name. You can try self soothing yourself. Do something more honest and don't act like you know all natives minds..okay
@@liliannamathers3428 taxes raise funds that others take for granted. Learn
Sort yer shit out
I'm related to the Young Stuarts and to people from Reems Creek, i wonder if i have ancestors who were regulators