Herman Husband was an American farmer, pamphleteer, author, and preacher best known as a leader of the Regulator Movement, a populist rebellion in the Province of North Carolina in the years leading up to the American Revolutionary War.
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Herman Husband was likely named after his maternal grandfather, Herman Kankey.
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Herman Husband's mother's side of the family came from Hamburg in Germany, and his maternal grandfather Herman Kankey was a religious tavern who was a critic of slavery.
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Herman Husband was later asked to leave the Quaker Meeting and he did so but continued to follow many of their tenets including strict pacifism.
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Herman Husband was thus in receipt of political pamphlets of a patriotic nature which he reprinted and circulated among his fellow citizens.
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Herman Husband was elected to the colony's assembly and spoke out against governmental abuses.
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Herman Husband's story is reminiscent of that of John Wilkes.
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Herman Husband was jailed for speaking out and then set loose when an angry mob of armed backwoods farmers was coming to free him.
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Herman Husband always denied he was a Regulator, and indeed, as a pacifist, he wouldn't take part in violence or threats of violence.
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In 1770, Herman Husband was expelled from the state legislature, ostensibly for libel but most likely due to his affiliation with the Regulators.
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Herman Husband accompanied the Regulators on the morning of the Battle of Alamance and sought to bring about an adjustment.
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Herman Husband continued his journeys both physical and metaphysical eventually settling in an area known as "The Glades" in what was then Bedford County and later became part of Somerset County in Western Pennsylvania and becoming a millennial preacher as well as a political reformer.
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Herman Husband called for progressive taxation, paper money, and, as a proponent of greater participation of common people in government as well as in religion, more democracy.
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Herman Husband is associated with the raising of a liberty pole at Brunerstown in the town square, adorned with an ensign proclaiming, "Liberty and No Excise".
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The federal forces rounded up suspects, including Herman Husband, who was specifically sought after.
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Herman Husband's health had deteriorated during his time in jail.
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Herman Husband's descendant was US Navy Admiral Husband E Kimmel.