The Regulators and Governor William Tryon When the Regulators rebelled against the Townshend duties in 1771 along the North Carolina frontier, Governor Tryon, who also questioned British tax policies, nevertheless dispatched colonial troops and crushed the rebellion. Tryon’s lavish palace in New Bern appears in the lower left corner of this $5 bill, issued in 1775 on the eve of the American Revolution. North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill