In the next two months, neighborhoods met, discussed their grievances, and elected representatives. The Associators on Deep River chose Quakers William Cox and William Moffitt to represent them. Court officials approved the conference and repeatedly assured the people that they would attend the meeting at Maddock’s Mill. -Kars
William Moffitt - Deep River Delegate
-one of two representatives from Deep River chosen to investigate alleged abuses of power by public officials in August 1766
-signed Regulators’ Advertisement No. 9 in May 1768
-signed Regulators’ Advertisement No. 11 in May 1768
- probably one of the group of farmers who overtook the Sheriff on the outskirts of Hillsborough in April 1768 regarding the “Regulator’s mare” incident.
-signed two letters addressed to the governor in August 1768
-attended a committee meeting of the Regulators at Thomas Cox’s Mill in June 1768
-exempt from pardon in 1768 for his “disturbance of the publick peace, audaciously attempting to intimidate and deter the Civil Magistrates from doing their duty ad committing many Acts of violence,” regarding the “Regulator’s mare” incident.
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