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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Report from Charlestown on North Carolina Regulators taking oaths after Alamance battle, but over 1200 families have migrated to South Carolina due to army devastation, with more expected, potentially depopulating parts of the province.
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The North-Carolina Gazette of the 16th of July says, "Upwards of 6000 of the people called Regulators have taken the oaths of allegiance to his Majesty, &c. happily returned to their farms and plantations."------Their taking the oaths we make no doubt of : but we are informed, that since the battle of Alamance more than 1200 families, whose provisions were exhausted, and settlements broke up, by the march of Governor Tryon's army through Orange and the adjacent counties, have removed into this province, and will be followed by many more ; and that the late signal and glorious victory, as it has been called, is like to ruin and depopulate a great part of that province.
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North Carolina
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Since The Battle Of Alamance
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more than 1200 families have removed into this province, and will be followed by many more ; ... is like to ruin and depopulate a great part of that province
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Upwards of 6000 Regulators took oaths of allegiance and returned to farms, but since Alamance battle, over 1200 families fled due to exhausted provisions and broken settlements from Governor Tryon's army march through Orange and adjacent counties.