The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-01-28

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Durant. The planters, among whom
were Valentine Byrd. Captain Craw-
ford, Captain Jenkins and John Gull
pepper, hearing of the disturbance.
anxious for the safety OF their~friends,
and fearing lest Gillian should sail
away before they had concluded their
purchases, came hurrying in hot haste
to the rescue. Rowing swiftly out to
h little vessel they quickly turned
the tables on the governor and his
officials; and to their indignant sur
prise, Miller and his men found them
selves prisoners in the hands of the
rebels. hen the insurgents, with
John Culpepper. now the acknowl-
edged leade of the revolt, at their
head, howed ashore to the landing
with their captives; n in the old
house at Enfield, on a bluff near the
bank Of the river-so goes our local
~tradition-the angry and astonished
governor was imprisoned.
Then the revolutionists proceeded to
Little River Poynte." probably the
settlement which afterwards grew into
the town Of NiXonton, and seized
Timothy Biggs, the surveyor and
deputy collector of customs, who had
been wringing the tobacco tax from
the farmers. Then breaking open the
chests and the locks, they found and
NOOh pOSSCSSACAl O1 "1llC =
as collector Of customs and returned
to Enfield, where they locked Biggs UP
with Miller in Capt. CrawfOrd's house.
For two weeks the deputy governor
and the deputy collector were kept
close prisoners at Enfield. The revo-
~lutionists in the meanwhile drew up
a document known as The Remon-
trance of the Inhabitants of Pasquo-
tank" in which they stated the griev-
ances hat had led them TO take this
high handed manne of circumventing
Miller and Briggs in their ~tyranical
proceedings. This ''remonstrance'
was sent to the precincts of Currituck,
= Perquimans and Chowan, and the
!, planters, following the example Of
, their neighbors in P%asquotank rose
in insurrection against the other
collectors of the hated customs and
export tax, and arrested and deposed
the collectors.
, At the end Of q fortnight the insur-
: gents decided to take Miller and Biggs
= to George Durant's home in Durant's
: Neck. So the prisoners were taken on
= board one of the planters vessels;
- n down the Pasquotank, into the
sound, and a short distance up Little
: river, the rebels sailed, accompanied
by several vessels filed with armcd
men. AS they passed the Carolina
y that saucy little ship which, as Miller
afterwards Indignantly reported to the
Lords Proprietors, TIA in all these
s COMMISSIONS rid with Jack Ensign Fla
and PennOn flying" just off the shore
. from Enfield saluted Culpepper, Du
u rant and their companions by firing
: three of her guns.
Arrived at Durant's home, wher'
some seventy prominent men Of tn
y colony had assembled, the revoiu
tionists proceeded to establish 8 gov
Is of their own. John Cu1pep
per was appointed governor, an as
IS sembly Of eighteen men was elected
a court convened before which Mile
and Biggs were brought for trial OF
a charge Of treason. But before tn
y trial was ended Governor Eastchurcl
who had arrived in Virginia Will
sc these affairs were taking place, sent
y, proclamation to the insurgents com
D. handing them to diSperSe and retur-
N to their homes. This the bold plant
Is ers refused to do, and in further de
e fiance of Eastchurch the new official
n sent an armed force to prevent nj
coming into the colony.
ne Eastchurch appealed to Virginia t
help him establish his authority i
a Carolina; but while he was c~ollecsin
g, forces for this purpose he fell i'll an
lp died. Durant, Culpepper, Byrd an
ne their comrades We're now masters i
ld Albemarle.
" The interrupted trials were neve
at completed. Biggs managed to escap
III and made his way to England. Mile
was kept a prisoner for two years j
ne a little log cabin built for the purpos
,ir at the upper end Of PasouOtank. nea
he where the old brick house now stand
IN two years time Miller also cor
trived to escape, and found his va
back to the mother country.
For ten years the Albemarle colon
~. prospered under the wise and prude1
management of the officers whom til
ed people had put in charge Of affair
a without leave or license from lord {
IN. king. But finally C%ulpepper n Dl
he rant decided Of their own accord
ed give up their authority and restore tt
es. management Of affairs to the Propri'
mt tors. An amicable settleemnt was a
to ranged with these owners Of Alb