Biography
Herman Husband was a Quaker farmer and pamphleteer who became the leading voice of the North Carolina Regulators. For his agitation against colonial corruption he was jailed and, in 1770, expelled from the colonial Assembly and outlawed; he fled the colony before the Battle of Alamance. A generation later, having settled in western Pennsylvania, he was swept up in the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 — arrested as a suspected leader and imprisoned for months in Philadelphia. Released in failing health, he died on the journey home in 1795.