Citation - Massachusetts Spy-Boston: 1770.11.15

MS-B.770.025
12-15 Nov 1770:21,22 (1/43)
Newbern, (North Carolina) October 8.  [Narrative of
insurrection of "Regulators" in Hillsborough, Orange
county:] . . . They then went to a large Church bell that
Colonel Fanning, at the expense of 70 L. had made a present
of to the church at Hillsborough, and split it to pieces,
and were at the point of pulling down the church, but their
leaders thinking it betrayed their religious principles
restrained them. . .