[776] Ibid., 46; Swan's Revisal (ed. 1752), 127-30; cf. Weeks, op. cit., 244, 245.
[777] Iredell-Martin, op. cit., I, 45.
[778] Weeks, op. cit., 245; cf. N. C. Col. Rec., VI, 881, 952, 954.
[779] Iredell-Martin, op. cit., I, 157, 158; Davis, Revisal (ed. 1773), 350.
"It was proposed to limit this law to three years, which was not done. It provided for no Dissenters except Presbyterians. But it seems that the original intention was to cover the case of all Dissenters. The second section probably read 'dissenting or of the dissenting Presbyterian clergy.' The clause in italics was stricken out and the phrase 'dissenting or Presbyterian clergy' took its place, thus excluding all Dissenters except Presbyterians."—Weeks, op. cit., 245 n. 2; cf. N. C. Col. Rec., VII, 411, 329, 331.
[780] Saunders, "Prefatory Notes," N. C. Col. Rec., VIII, xlv.
[781] "Letter from Governor Tryon to Earl of Shelburne, Brunswick, 31st January 1767," N. C. Col. Rec., VII, 432, 433. On this act see also Saunders, "Prefatory Notes," ibid., VIII, xlv.
[782] See the petition for repeal ibid., X, 1015; cf. Weeks, op. cit., 246, 247, who has collected these passages.
[783] N. C. Col. Rec., VIII, 80b. There was also a petition from the people of Anson: ibid., 78.
[784] Ibid., 82; Weeks, op. cit., 246, 247. This petition was presented to Tryon by "Herman Husband the leader of the Regulators": Weeks, op. cit., 247, 248, referring to Swain, "War of Regulation," N. C. University Mag., IX (1859-60), 339.