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less and enterprising spirit. He lived formerly in 

 North Carolina, where he played a considerable part in 

 a company of men who shortly before the outbreak of 

 the war drew much attention to themselves and caused 

 great disturbance. They called themselves Regula- 

 tors, + and had undertaken nothing less than to demand 

 a reckoning of the Governor of the province, at that 

 time General Tryon, in the item of certain imposts and 

 the use made of them, intending also to abolish other 

 ordinances which they believed to be unlawful and 

 arbitrary. Whether it is true, I cannot say, but I have 

 heard several persons declare these Regulators be- 

 came an unlucky sacrifice to their reasonable, if blus- 

 tering, opposition to the oppression which threatened 

 them, laying themselves open to persecution. Their 

 complaints and grievances did not prevail, their pur- 

 poses were falsely represented, and they were treated 

 with the utmost severity. The war coming on, how- 

 ever, many of them are said to have remained worthy 

 and zealous friends to the royal government. At the 

 time, Husband could only escape through precipitous 

 flight the punishment in store for him. He betook 

 himself hither into the mountains, where under a 

 changed name and wearing strange clothing, he con- 

 trived to avoid further persecution, until the general 

 war breaking out assured him peace. Instead of 

 matters of state he concerns himself now with proph- 

 ecies, of which several have appeared in Goddard's 

 Maryland Calendar under the name Hutrim Hutrim, 

 or the Philosopher of the Alleghany. In one of these 

 he had calculated the time of his death, but has already 

 lived some years beyond the term. He is a Quaker, 

 and was occupied with iron-works in the mountainous 



