A company of regulators was organized by the citizens of Carrollton and vicinity in the spring of 1839, with Thomas A. Clarke as captain. It numbered twenty or thirty members.

The object was to suppress stealing and punish the Miscreants, a community of half-breed Cherokees. Several were whipped and compelled to leave the county.

Two or three confessed, promised reformation, and were permitted to stay. After accomplishing the object of its organization the company disbanded.