Virtually everyone captured in the battle was fully pardoned in exchange for an allegiance to the crown. Six Regulators were, however, hanged for their part in the uprising, including some officers of the colonial militia who had joined ranks with the Regulator’s side.

The Regulators were a large group of North Carolina colonists who opposed the taxation and fee system imposed by colonial officials in the late 1760s. Following this battle, a few Regulators were hanged and the majority pardoned, bringing the movement to an end.

Regulator Movement in mid-eighteenth-century North Carolina was a rebellion initiated by residents of the colony’s inland region, or backcountry, who believed that royal government officials were charging them excessive fees, falsifying records, and engaging in other mistreatments.

The main group of men in the Regulators were known as the “iron clad” and they were: Richard “Dick” Brewer, Frank McNab, Doc Scurlock, Jim French, John Middleton, George Coe, Frank Coe, Jose Chavez y Chavez, Charlie Bowdre, Tom O’Folliard, Fred Waite, Henry Newton Brown, and the bandit of all bandit’s; Billy the Kid.

Murphy decided to ambush McSween, Tunstall’s close friend and partner, and trap the Regulators in McSween’s house. He then called in the army and all out war ensued. Murphy was killed by a single bullet between the eyes fired by Billy Bonney after most of the Regulators had escaped.

The Lincoln County Regulators was made up of a group of young men ranging from 14 to 30 years old which began as a deputized posse seeking revenge for the death of their boss and friend, John Tunstall.

After the murder of John Tunstall, his former ranch hands, including Billy the Kid, became a deputized posse known as the Lincoln County Regulators, allied to Tunstall’s former lawyer Alexander McSween. The Regulators had 24 confirmed members, of which Billy was by far the youngest member.

These frustrations lead to the formation of an association called the Regulators. Their goal was to reform the government and rid it of corruption.

Together with Billy the Kid, Doc Scurlock, Charlie Bowdre, and the rest of the Regulators, Chavez engaged in the Lincoln County War that lasted from 1878 to 1879. At some point of his tenure as a member of the Regulators, he became good friends with Billy the Kid and Jim French.

The Regulators were backcountry settlers who banded together in 1767 in response to a wave of crime that swept their region in the aftermath of a disruptive war with the Cherokee Indians (1759–1761). Bandit gangs, including women as well as escaped slaves, roamed the country with little fear of capture.

In fact, the Regulators were a faction of North Carolina backcountry farmers who opposed the taxation system imposed by colonists in the 1760s—and they play a major role in the latest season of Outlander, out February 16 on Starz.

The Regulator Movement was a series of uprisings over excessive taxation and lack of law enforcement in the British colonies of North and South Carolina from 1765 to 1771.

Their ideas started the Regulator Movement in North Carolina. It was a movement during the 1760’s by western North Carolinians, mainly Scots-Irish, that resented the way that the Eastern part of the state dominated political affairs. They believed that the tax money was being unevenly distributed.