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Colonial and State Records of North Carolina
Letter from William Piggott to Edmund Fanning
Piggot, William
May 10, 1768
Volume 07, Page 745

[From MS. Records in Office of Secretary of State.]

Friend Colo Fanning

Those that Calls themselves Regulaors Has Entertained an Oppanion that Brother Jeremiah and I was Qualifyed when we ware at Court that Simon Dixon and Harmond Husbands was the Ringleaders of the Mob and we understand we are much threatened on the account of it therefore If thee would be Pleased to send a few Lines to Simon Dixon wheather it be true or faulse thee will oblege thy friend and well wishor

WILLIAM PIGGOTT

Cane Creek the 10th of the 5th Month 1768.