Nutbush Address, Marker G-106 - North Carolina Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

In 1765 George Sims delivered "An address to the People of Granville County." (At this point in time Vance County had not yet been formed from a portion of Granville County.) This speech, also called the "Nutbush Address," charged the county clerk of court with malpractice. The problem of illegal fees and supposedly dishonest officials had already led to mob violence in Granville County. In the address, Sims describes the average citizen's problems in obtaining money to pay court fees and debts:

... if he has but one horse to plow with, one bed to lie on, or one cow to give a little milk for his children, they must all go to raise money which is not to be had. And lastly if his personal estate (sold at one tenth of its value) will not do, then his lands (which perhaps has cost him many years of toil and labor) must go the same way to satisfy these cursed hungry caterpillars, that are eating and will eat out the bowels of our Commonwealth, if they be not pulled down from their nests in a very short time, and what need I say, Gentlemen, to urge the necessity their is for a reformation...

Nutbush was the name of a settlement on Nutbush Creek, a small stream running through the northern part of the present-day Vance and Warren counties. This speech was an important part of the early history of the Regulator Movement in North Carolina.

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