1730s: Gideon Gibson and his family and other settlers leave Boston and travel south to settle in parts of the frontier.
Gideon, who was leading the Regulators, participated in a clash with a group of constables near Marrs Bluff on the Pee Dee River on July 25, 1767.
At the same time, the other was a band of bandits consisting of a large gathering of outcast Mulattos, Mustees, and Free Negroes from the Virginia border and other Northern Colonies.
The truth was the Regulators were a group of North and South Carolina colonists who were dissatisfied with the corrupt practices of local officials and sought to bring about reforms.
Loyalist Governor Lord Charles Montagu attempted to enforce the 1765 Stamp Act in South Carolina, which made him unpopular with the local colonists.
By 1771, Montagu had issued a full pardon for any actions taken by the regulators in his state (with the notable exception of Gideon Gibson Jr. and his followers.)
Notably, some North and South Carolina regulators decided to sit out the Revolutionary War due to the British offering emancipation of anyone enslaved by rebels who joined their lines.
Lord Dunmore's Proclamation, the first mass emancipation of enslaved people in North American history, significantly impacted the course of the Revolutionary War and the eventual abolition of slavery.
[6] When the colonial government in Charlestown rejected the petitions for redress of their courts by the bush country landowners, the seeds of the American Revolution were planted.
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