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| 1 | | 3 | 300 | |Angus McDougald " " | | | 2 | 200 | |Dougald McDougald " " | 3 | 1 | 6 | 640 | |Dougald McDougald " " | 2 | | 4 | 400 | |John Campbell " " | 1 | | 3 | 300 | |Archibald Buea " " | 1 | | 3 | 300 | |Neill Buea | | | 1 | 100 | |Neill Clark | | | 1 | 100 | |John McLean | | | 1 | 100 | |Angus McDougald | | | 1 | 100 | |John McDougald | | | 1 | 100 | |Donald McDougald | | | 1 | 100 | |Donald McDougald | | | 1 | 100 | |Alexander McDougald | | | 1 | 100 | |John McLean | | | 1 | 100 | |Peter McLean | | | 1 | 100 | |Malcolm Buea | | | 1 | 100 | |Duncan Buea | | | 1 | 100 | |Mary Buea | | | 1 | 100 | |Nancy McLean | | | 1 | 100 | |Peggy Sinclair | | | 1 | 100 | |Peggy McDougald | | | 1 | 100 | |Jenny Darach | | | 1 | 100 | |Donald McLean | | | 1 | 100 | +-------------------------------+------+------+-------+----------+ These names show they were from Argyleshire, and probably from the Isle of Mull, and the immediate vicinity of the present city of Oban. The year 1771 witnessed civil strife in North Carolina. The War of the Regulators was caused by oppression in disproportionate taxation; no method for payment of taxes in produce, as in other counties; unfairness in transactions of business by officials; the privilege exercised by lawyers to commence suits in any court they pleased, and unlawful fees extorted. The assembly was petitioned in vain on these points, and on account of these wrongs the people of the western districts attempted to gain by force what was denied them by peaceable means. One of the most surprising things about this war is tha
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