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Isaac Edwards

Isaac Edwards was private secretary and aide-de-camp to Governor William Tryon. He qualified as an attorney at Hillsborough in 1766, and from 1768 bought lots on West Tryon Street, where he built a small house and a law office. In the spring of 1768 he carried Tryon's proclamation to Hillsborough and read it to the Regulators. He sold his house and lots to Francis Nash in 1771 and 1772.

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Advertisements, financial papers, and the insurgents address delivered to the council on the 20th June 1768

1766

Papers gathered around the Regulator troubles: printed advertisements, financial statements and the address the insurgents delivered to the governor's council on 20 June 1768. William Butler, James Hunter, Edmund Fanning and Isaac Edwards are among the men named, and the papers turn on taxes, grievances, oaths and petitions. Orange County was the center of the rising. Reference CO 5/312.

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  1. The governor's secretary posts Tryon's proclamation at Hillsborough On the day the Regulators met to choose their delegates, Governor Tryon's secretary Edwards reached Hillsborough and put up the governor's proclamation against the disturbances. Fanning set out for Sandy Creek with an armed party the next day. People: Edmund Fanning, Isaac EdwardsInternet Archive: Bassett, The Regulators of North Carolina (1765-1771) (1896), p. 169
  2. Governor Tryon buys county land and two Hillsborough lots Tryon bought a large tract in the county and two lots in the town, and put up a house on the lots. His private secretary, Isaac Edwards, also bought and built in Hillsborough. People: Isaac EdwardsSearch the index · Nash, Hillsboro, Colonial and Revolutionary (1903), p. 10
  3. Francis Nash builds his house on West Tryon Street Francis Nash built the house now called the Nash-Hooper House on West Tryon Street in Hillsborough in 1772, on land bought from Isaac Edwards. After his death in 1777 it passed through other hands to William Hooper in 1782. People: William Hooper, Isaac EdwardsSearch the index · NCpedia: Nash-Hooper House

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  • Nash-Hooper House Houses, farms, parks and cemeteries · Hillsborough · 1 event here

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