A Sketch Of The Life And Character Of The Rev. David Caldwell, D.D. Near Sixty Years Pastor Of The Churches Of Buffalo And Alamance Including Two Of His Sermons: Some Account Of The Regulation, Together With The Revolutionary Transactions And Incidents In Which He Was Concerned; And A Very Brief Notice Of The Ecclesiatical And Moral Condition Of North-Carolina While In Its Colonial State Rev. E.W. Caruthers North Carolina In The Revolutionary War

302 pp. Hardcover in 1/4 leather binding. Previous owner rubber stamp on title page. No ffep. An important piece of North Carolina history, with an account of the Regulators, part of the War of the Regulation (1771), a rebellion in colonial North Carolina over issues of taxation and local control, taking place in then Orange county, now Alamance county. Also, contains accounts of life in Revolutionary North Carolina. Contains a lengthy discussion of the Regulator movement and some account of the Revolution in North Carolina. Caldwell was a Presbyterian minister and an influential educator. Many of his congregants were Regulators and he supported their cause. In 1771, he met with the governor on the eve of the battle of Alamance in an unsuccessful attempt at mediation. Caldwell later served as a member of the North Carolina constitutional convention of 1776 and supported the patriot cause by calling for volunteers from his pulpit. For these efforts, Cornwalis placed a 200-pound bounty on his head and Caldwell was forced into hiding. In 1788, he was a leading anti-Federalist during the North Carolina convention that debated the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. Thornton 1915. Howes C211. Sabin 11169.