Steve,

Thanks for the copy of the pardon. I didn't know it existed. However, I did
know that my ancestor had been a South Carolina Regulator from the back
country. He is Andrew Baskin who was very nicely described in Brown's book
on the Regulator movement.

Yours, Ginny K.


The Regulator Pardon
>
>South Carolina   George the Third by the Grace of God of Great
>                 Britian, France & Ireland, King Defender of the
>                 Faith & so on.
>
>To all & singular our Judges, Justices, Marshalls, Sheriffs, Constables,
>Bailliffs & others our Peace Officers or loving Subjects within our said
>province greeting: Whereas sundry inhabitiants in the Northern parts of
>our said
>province, heretofore assembled themselves together under the name of
>Regulators
>& committed various Outrages & Acts of Violence in illegally whipping &
>imprisonment divers persons under pretence of their being robbers and horse
>thieves but for as much as it appeared that sundry well disposed people
>had been
>unwarily drawn in to join the said Association in some of the said illegal
>Acts
>of Violence by them committed. We did by our Proclamation under the Great Seal
>of our said province bearing date the sixth day of August 1768, promise
>our most
>Gracious Pardon for the said Outrages & Acts of Violence, committed by any
>person or persons on or before the said sixth Day of August 1768, to all such
>Persons as should thenceforth peaceably demean themselves & should keep our
>peace & duly observe the laws of our said province enacted for the
>preservation
>of the same. And Whereas very many of the said people who called themselves
>Regulators did thereupon desist from the illegal practices aforesaid & peace &
>tranquility hath in a manner been restored to the inhabitants in the back
>settlements of our said province. And Whereas John Marshall, William Welsh,
>Richard Barnett, John Welsh, Thomas Marshall, William Deason, John Holley
>Senior, John Holley Junior, James Holley, John Cook, Jonathan Holley, John
>Kirkland, Benjamin Cook, Francis Kirkland, James Marlow, John Owens, James
>Owens, James Rutland, Edward Grigg, Andrew Baskins, Joshua English, William
>Hilton, Joshua Dinkins, Samuel Wiggans, David Gibson, Barnaby Pope, John
>Kimbol,
>William Kirkland, Thomas Parrot, Moses Matthews, David McGraw, William
>Simmons,
>Philip Shaver, David Moore, Thomas Frankland, William Frazier, Jacob Frazier,
>William McGraw, Edward McGraw Junior,  James Jones, Mark Davis, James Nelson,
>John Woodward, Josiah Horn, James Andrews Senior, Thomas Trap, John Miles,
>John
>Grigg, Edward Narramore, Bryant Ryley, John Lightner, Edward McGraw Senior,
>Henry Wimpey, Henry Gotes, George Lewey, John Goodwin, James Russell, George
>Lightner, James Andrews Junior, Enoch Andrews, William Hill, Enoch McGraw,
>Benjamin Gigary, Peter Rapesome, William Ackary, Jesse Stevens, John Roden,
>Alexander Daley, Henry Horn, William Nettles, Averhart Nates, John Gray,
>Richard
>Taylor, Daniel Gardner, Wood Tucker & John Cook of our said province planters,
>have respresented unto us that altho' they were present at some of the illegal
>proceedings, committed on the first Association of the Regulators they
>have for
>a long time past duly observed our Peace & have humbly besought us to grant to
>them our Pardon for the said Offences. Now Know Ye that we being Graciously
>inclined have pardoned, remitted & released & we do hereby Pardon, Remitt &
>Release unto the said John Marshall, William Welsh, Richard Barnett, John
>Welsh,
>Thomas Marshall, William Deason, John Holley Senior, John Holley Junior, James
>Holley, John Cook, Jonathan Holley, John Kirkland, Benjamin Cook, Francis
>Kirkland, James Marlow, John Owens, James Owens, James Rutland, Edward Grigg,
>Andrew Baskins, Joshua English, William Hilton, Joshua Dinkins, Samuel
>Wiggans,
>David Gibson, Barnaby Pope, John Kimbol, William Kirkland, Thomas Parrot,
>Moses
>Matthews, David McGraw, William Simmons, Philip Shaver, David Moore, Thomas
>Frankland, William Frazier, Jacob Frazier, William McGraw, Edward McGraw
>Junior,  James Jones, Mark Davis, James Nelson, John Woodward, Josiah Horn,
>James Andrews Senior, Thomas Trap, John Miles, John Grigg, Edward Narramore,
>Bryant Ryley, John Lightner, Edward McGraw Senior, Henry Wimpey, Henry Gotes,
>George Lewey, John Goodwin, James Russell, George Lightner, James Andrews
>Junior, Enoch Andrews, William Hill, Enoch McGraw, Benjamin Gigary, Peter
>Rapesome, William Ackary, Jesse Stevens, John Roden, Alexander Daley, Henry
>Horn, William Nettles, Averhart Nates, John Gray, Richard Taylor, Daniel
>Gardner, Wood Tucker & John Cook & to each & to every of them all Assaults,
>Batteries, Trespasses, Misdemeanours & Crimes whatsoever under the nature &
>Degree of a Felony had done, committed and perpetrated by them or any of
>them on
>or before the first day of October Instant & all fines, forfeitures,
>amerciaments & imprisonments, or other punishments for the same, & We do
>hereby
>further Will & Direct that no suit shall henceforward be instituted or
>prosecuted in our Name or at our Instance against all or either of the above
>named persons for any of the Trespasses or Misdemeanours aforesaid, of
>which our
>Attorney General of our said Providence & all others whom it may concern are
>required to take due Notice & govern themselves accordingly.
>
>                             Given under the Great Seal of our
>                             said province, Witness His Excellency
>                             The Right honble Lord Chas.Greville
>                             Montagu Captain General Governour &
>
>By His Excellencys            Commander in Chief in and over our
>Command. Geo. Murray          Said province this thirty first day
>           Dep. Secy          of October, Anno Dom: 1771 & in the
>                              Twelfth Year of our Reign.
>                              Chas. Grev. Montagu
>
>---------------------
>Transcribed by Carol McGraw Renner; [email protected]
>
>Microfilm of original document at the South Carolina Department of
>Archives and
>History, 1430 Senate St., Columbia, SC 29211-1669.
>
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>
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