HERMAN HUSBAND October 3, 1724 – June 19, 1795 Linda Willard Jamestown Friends Meeting Herman Husband, the first name is sometimes written as Harmon, was the son William Husband and Mary Kenkey. Husband was born in Cecil County, Maryland on October 3, 1724. His parents were indentured servants in England who moved to America and became landowners and slave owners. The Husband family were members of the Church of England. Husband heard the preaching of George Whitefield and left the Church of England to become a part of the Great Awakening movement. Husband next joined the Presbyterian Church which he also left. He finally joined the Quakers until he was turned out of the meeting. In about 1745, Husband married Elsey Phebe Cox. They became the parents of three children, two sons, and one daughter. Cox died sometime between 1753 and 1762. Husband was a land speculator, he owned a plantation in Maryland, he was part owner of two copper mines and had an investment in a Caribbean shipping firm. Husband’s land speculation brought him to the Piedmont region of North Carolina where he purchased 10,000 acres of land on Sandy Creek and Deep River. In 1762, Husband married Mary Pugh under the care of the Cane Creek Monthly Meeting in what is present-day Alamance County, North Carolina. On January 7, 1754, Husband was turned out of Cane Creek Meeting for opposing the new Quaker Discipline that had been adopted in 1750 to make Quaker practice uniform. Husband married Amy Allen, a member of Cane Creek Friends Meeting. Allen was turned out of Meeting for marrying Husband. Husband and his second wife were the parents of three daughters and one son. As a Quaker, Husband was opposed to slavery. Sometime in the 1750s or 1760s, he wrote to Lord Granville hoping to prevent the establishment of the Anglican Church as the state religion to prevent slavery from being legal in North Carolina. Husband was aware of the struggle of the small farmers in his area and became a pamphlet writer for the Regulator movement. Royal Governor Tryon continuously attacked Husband publicly and privately. In 1769, Tryon had Husband and Regulator leader William Butler arrested. Husband was soon released and resumed his role and pamphlet writer, and spokesperson for the Regulators. In 1769, Husband represented the Piedmont region of North Carolina in the state legislature. On December 20, 1770, Husband was falsely charged with libel and expelled from the legislature on January 31, 1771. On May 16, 1771, approximately two thousand Regulators confronted Tryon and one thousand soldiers in what has become known as the Battle of Alamance. As a pacifist Quaker, Husband did not participate in the battle. Following the Battle of Alamance, Husband fled North Carolina for Maryland and eventually to Pennsylvania. While in Pennsylvania, Husband participated in the Whiskey Rebellion. Husband died in a tavern in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 19, 1795. His death is thought to have been caused by something he contracted while in prison. The location of his grave is unknown. .