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"What Business has Maurice Moore to be judge, He is no Judge, he was not appointed by the King He nor Henderson neither, They’ll neither of theone and ed than ever, it was the best thing that could be for the Country for now We shall be forced to kill all the Clerks and Lawyers, and We will kill them and I’ll be damned if they are not put to Death If they had not ht have suffered some of them to live A Riotous Act! there never was any such Act in the Laws of England or any other Country but France, they brought it fro the Inquisition"

Many of them said the Governor was a Friend to the Lawyers and the Asse Laws for Fees They shut Husband up in Gaol that He s and then the Governor and the Assembly made just such Laws as the Lawyers wanted The Governor is a Friend to the Lawyers, the Lawyers carry on every Thing, they appoint weak ignorant Justices of Peace for their own purposes

There should be no Lawyers in the province, they da was outlawed as of the Twenty-Second of March and any Regulator that saw Him after that Time would kill him and some said they would not wait for that, wished they could see him, and swore they would kill him before they returned if they could find hie Moore at Salisbury that they ht kill him One Robert Thomson said Maurise Moore was purjured and called hiue, Villian, Scoundral, etc others assented to it

When Neas brought that Captain Rutherford at the head of His Co in the Streets of Salisbury, this Deponent heard Sundry of thee very hard and strenuously that the whole Body of the Regulators then present should March into Salisbury with their Arh to kill them, We can kill them We’ll teach thehth

Day of March 1771 before Me

(signed) Waightstill Avery

(witnessed) Wm Harris, Justice of the Peace

Williae

North Carolina

New Bern ye 19th March 1771

Sir,

It was Yesterday determined in His Majestys Council of this Province to Raise a Body of Forces froiments and Coents, who by their Rebellious Acts and Declarations have set this Governines or implements in this Country, I a me for this Service the Articles (cannon, shot, colours, druin My March from this Town about the Twentieth of next Month, and asseh the Counties My Plan is to forh from the Spirit that now appears on the Side of Government that Number may be considerably increased

I am with much Respect and Esteem

Sir Your Most Obedt Servt,

Wm Tryon

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NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP

Fraser’s Ridge

15 April, 1771

ROGER LAY IN BED, listening for the intermittent whine of an invisiblethe cabinJe, but he and Brianna had no such shielding If the daet it--but it seemed to circle tirelessly above their bed, occasionally swooping down to sing taunting little neeeee songs into his ear, before zooain into the dark