[RegulatorCountry]

BENJAMIN HERRILL

That would be Benjamin Merrill. One of my sixt great grandfathers was orphaned in the Cherokee War, and was bound out to him. Merrill wasn't merely executed, he was drawn and quartered, according to some information I've encountered.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

You know, even when I blow it up:

and I just glance at it, it still looks like "Herrill".

But then if I stare real hard, it starts to look like Merrill.

I think some moss or some mold [or some copper oxidation] must be growing in the "V"-shaped part of the "M", and that dark spot makes it look more like an "H".

Sorry about that.

Hey - what are your original sources for the Battle of Alamance?

I once read about the Regulators from a book published by some fellow who lived in Hillsborough, circa 1900, and who had written up some of the local legends and tawdry gossip about them.