A plaque from Alamance battleground monument reads: "Of the twelve regulators condemned at Hillsboro, the following six were executed by the British Governor: James Pugh, Robert Matear, Benjamin Merrill, Captain Messer, and two others whose names are now unknown. "Our blood will be as good seed in good ground, that will soon produce one hundred fold." –James Pugh, under the gallows at Hillsboro, N.C., June 19th, 1771."