Citation - Boston News Letter: 1770.11.15

BNL.770.092
15 Nov 1770:41 (3502)
Newbern, (North Carolina) October 5.  [Narrative of
insurrection of "Regulators" in Hillsborough, Orange county]
. . . They then went to a large handsome Church bell that
Col. Fanning, at the expense of 60 or 70 L had made a
present of to the Church of Hillsborough, and split it to
pieces, and were at the point of pulling down the Church,
but their leaders, thinking it would betray their religious
principles, restrained them. . .