Hostilities At Alamance Creek

From Documenting the American South (Description by Morgan Edwards of the North Carolina Baptists in the Battle of Alamance [Extracts] Edwards, Morgan, 1722-1795, Volume 08, Pages 654-657):

“Next to Virginia Southward is North Carolina, a poor and unhappy province where superiors make complaints of the people, and the people of their superiors... .” These complaints rose to hostilities at Alamance Creek May 16th 1771, where about 6,000 appeared in arms and fought each other 4,000 Regulators killing three Tryonians and 2,000 [Tryonians] killing twelve Regulators besides lodging in the trees an incredible number of balls which the hunters have since picked out and killed more deer and turkies than they killed of their antagonists.”