Complex sentence: In 1771, Governor William Tryon named Eaton a colonel in the Bute County militia during the War of the Regulation, which organization supported the governor against the agrarian uprising in the piedmont region of North Carolina.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1771, Governor William Tryon named Eaton a colonel in the Bute County militia during the War of the Regulation. The militia organization supported the governor against the agrarian uprising in the piedmont region of North Carolina.