Note 71 — Chapter XXVI

Among these was Herman Husbands, then a very old man, who had figured conspicuously in the revolutionary movement in North Carolina, previous to the War for Independence, known as the Regulator war. He was arrested on suspicion of being an active fomenter of the insurrection. This, however, seems not to have been the case, “I know that his sentiments were always in favor of the excise law,” wrote a friend of Husbands to the president, “and that he did all that he could to prevent the people of the western counties from opposing the execution of the law; and I know he is a good friend of liberty and his country.” Husbands was released, at about the first of January, 1795.