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strongest in the House; Tryon to Hillsborough, with the laws of the session. to conciliate its power, a law was passed for endowing Queen's College in the town of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County; See Acts of the Session. Caruther's Life of Caldwell, 77. a deceitful act of tolerance, which was sure to be annulled by the King in Council. But the great object of Tryon was the riot Act, by which it was declared a felony for more than ten men to remain assembled after being required to dispers, 1771. As the Regulators were not counted, their number is a matter of mere conjecture. Tryon puts it at two thousand. One newspaper account at the time says but three hundred took part in the battle. Compare the judicious Caruthers, Life of Caldwell, 147. The Regulators, who had been drawn together not as insurgents but from alarm,—many, perhaps most of them without guns,—may have numbered rather more, and were encamped about five miles to the west of the stream. They gathered round James