200th anniversary of the Battle of Alamance- On May 16th this will mark the 250th anniversary
Jim Curran Admin · 1h · 01/16/2021
Was browsing through a local antique mall today and spotted something interesting- a plate made on the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Alamance- On May 16th this will mark the 250th anniversary of what should be considered the first battle of the Revolution. The Regulator War was in all intents and purposes a war against the Baptists and Quakers waged by the British Colonial governor Tryon. The regulators gathered to oppose the unfair taxation and the corrupt government practices levied upon them by the British government. Among those was the vestry tax imposed to support the Church of England. Afterwards Benjamin Merrill, who was a deacon at the Jersey Baptist Church was hung along with 5 others. Merrill and a group from the Jersey Settlement (which was almost all Baptist) won a skirmish over Tryon’s forces on the way to Alamance- he did not make it to the battle on time due to this. Tryons forces tracked him and the others down- the first place that the camped after the battle was the grounds at Sandy Creek. Merrill and the others were sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered. It is unclear if the orders were carried out as written, but Merrill’s wife Jemima went blind right after watched the execution (likely had a stroke from the stress.) James Pugh would say as he was executed “Our blood will be as good seed in good ground, that will soon produce one hundred fold.” The bodies were dumped in an unmarked mass grave by the river in Hillsboro, NC the exact location is unknown.
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Jim Curran Admin 01/16/2021
Was browsing through a local antique mall today and spotted something interesting- a plate made on the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Alamance- On May 16th this will mark the 250th anniversary of what should be considered the first battle of the Revolution. The Regulator War was in all intents and purposes a war against the Baptists and Quakers waged by the British Colonial governor Tryon. The regulators gathered to oppose the unfair taxation and the corrupt government practices levied upon them by the British government. Among those was the vestry tax imposed to support the Church of England. Afterwards Benjamin Merrill, who was a deacon at the Jersey Baptist Church was hung along with 5 others. Merrill and a group from the Jersey Settlement (which was almost all Baptist) won a skirmish over Tryon’s forces on the way to Alamance- he did not make it to the battle on time due to this. Tryons forces tracked him and the others down- the first place that the camped after the battle was the grounds at Sandy Creek. Merrill and the others were sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered. It is unclear if the orders were carried out as written, but Merrill’s wife Jemima went blind right after watched the execution (likely had a stroke from the stress.) James Pugh would say as he was executed “Our blood will be as good seed in good ground, that will soon produce one hundred fold.” The bodies were dumped in an unmarked mass grave by the river in Hillsboro, NC the exact location is unknown.
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=437427510745203&set=gm.1467124436816034
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