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agreement in Rowan County for arbitration, marched into Orange County. His progress was marked by the destruction of wheat fields and orchards, the burning of every house which was found empty; the seizure of cattle, poultry and all the produce of the plantations. The terrified people ran together like sheep chased by a wolf; while Tryon crossed the Eno, and the Haw; and the men who had been indicted at Newbern for felonies, were already advertised as outlaws, when on the evening of the fourteenth, he reached the Great Alamance. The little army under his command was composed of one thousand and eighteen foot soldiers, and thirty light horse, besides the officers. The number of the army of Tryon is given exactly according to his own statement in a letter from New-York, 1 August, 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.
lost the tenderness of a parent, and become their great oppressor. Journal of C. C. 501. —We trust in God, wrote the men of Lexington, that should the state of our affairs require it, we shall be ready to sacrifice our estates and every thing dear in life, yea, and life itself, in support of the common cause. Original Papers, 495.—Whole towns in Worcester County were on tiptoe to come down. J. Adams: Works, IX. 835. Go on, as you have begun, wrote the Committee of Leicester on the fourteenth; and do not suffer any of the teas already come or coming to be landed, or pay one farthing of duty. You may depend on our aid and assistance when needed. Journal of C. C. VII. 603. The line of policy adopted was, if possible, to get the tea carried back to London uninjured in the vessel in which it came. A Meeting of the people on Tuesday afternoon directed and as it were compelled Rotch, the owner of the Dartmouth, to apply for a clearance. He did so, accompanied by Kent, Samue