The Regulator Movement and New Research

This virtual presentation was given on May 24, 2022 as part of the State Archives of North Carolina's USA 250th commemoration. The recording begins after the introduction to the presentation.

Troy Kickler, former colonial records editor for the Office of Archives & History, provides an overview of the Regulator Movement identifying four key factors: regionalism, denominationalism, legal fees and taxation, and politics/ the struggle for power. Mark Chilton, Orange County Register of Deeds, discusses his in-depth research into land ownership, neighborhoods, and religious affiliations in three rural settlements that were part of Orange County in the late colonial period. His detailed maps include land ownership in three areas: along Buffalo and Alamance Creeks; surrounding the convergence of the Trading Path and the Cape Fear Road; and near the Sandy Creek Baptist Church. Chilton explains the connection between settlement patterns, membership in denominations including Presbyterian, Lutheran, German Reformed, and Baptist, and involvement in the Regulator Movement.


0:00 - Overview of the Regulator Movement by Troy Kickler
13:00 - Land Ownership, Neighborhoods, and Religious Affiliations in Orange County in the Late Colonial Period by Mark Chilton
56:26 - Q&A