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Randell Jones Guest columnist After several years in the late 1760s of bitter discourse, protest and, eventually, riots against egregious mistreatment by appointed officials, the farmers on North Carolina’s frontier continued to petition the royal governor and assembly for relief. These “Regulators” called for a better regulation of government. The entrenched powers that be were put off by these backcountry “rabble” and passed the Johnston Riot Act, enabling the government to declare Regulators as outlaws and to confiscate property. Indeed, Royal Gov. Will...

Randell Jones Guest columnist During May and June, we observe and learn from the 250th anniversary of formative events to America’s nation-building efforts preceding the Declaration of Independence by five years. Although independent-America’s civic virtues would become “liberty” and “equality,” these colonial events, internal to North Carolina as the War of the Regulation, reveal our Tarheel forebears confronting prevalent and persisting attitudes of superiority and class entitlement and a hard conviction that “might makes right.” That prob...

Ludington was the daughter of Henry Ludington, a New York militia officer and later an aide to Gen. George Washington. According to accounts generally attributed to the Ludington family and first published more than 100 years later, on April 26, 1777, a messenger reached the Ludington house with news of Gov. William Tryon’s attack on Danbury, Connecticut, some 15 miles (25 km) to the southeast, where the munitions and stores for the militia of the entire region were stored. Colonel Ludington began immediately to organize the local militia. Whether Sybil volunteered (as is often recounted) ...

Skeletal remains discovery renews interest in Battle of Ridgefield anniversary Alyssa Seidman FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 The Ridgefield Historical Society has created a self-guided walking tour of the Battle of Ridgefield and Revolutionary War sites, which is availble on CT Humanities’ ConnTours app.Contributed photo / Ridgefield Historical SocietyShow MoreShow Less 2of5 The Ridgefield Historical Society selected Heritage Consultants LLC, to conduct research into the Battle of Ridgefield through its National Park Service grant. Pictured is a map of Ridgefield in April 1777.Contributed photo ...

Cudmore: Fulton County’s historic courthouse | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS   Located at 223 West Main St. in Johnstown, the Fulton County Courthouse was built in 1772 when New York state was still a British colony. The building is the oldest existing courthouse in the state and one of the oldest buildings in the nation still in use as a courthouse. Robert P. Best worked in the historic structure as a state Supreme Court Justice for 15 years, Fulton County Judge for 10 years and district attorney.  Best was previously mayor of Gloversville and before that a law clerk to his uncle Willard B...