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William Tryon

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Correspondence of the Earl of Hillsborough and Governor Martin concerning ammunitions at Fort Johnston, the Powder Act of South Carolina, and insurgents approaching New Bern

1771

Account of mob violence witnessed in the courts of New Bern by Richard Henderson

1770

Journal of the North Carolina assembly, 5 December 1770 - 26 January 1771

1770

Dispatches and letters from William Tryon to the Earl of Hillsborough, concerning the War of the Regulation

2019 · Adam Matthew Digital

Keywords: education, Church of England, finance, tax, marriage, administration, clergy, debt, town, metal, ordnance stores, ships and sailors, harbour, raising of troops, Provincials, riot, Regulators, assembly, law and…

Dispatches from Josiah Martin to the Earl of Dartmouth numbered 21-24, enclosing copies of legislation

2019 · Adam Matthew Digital

Keywords: finance, court of law, debt, council, judge, wages, assembly, currency, voting, tax, oath, litigation, appointment, sheriff, inheritance, prisoner, Irish, customs, resignation, land, quitrent, land grant, surv…

Dispatches from William Bull to the Earl of Dartmouth, numbers 54-59

2019 · Adam Matthew Digital

Keywords: assembly, finance, currency, ships and sailors, tax, death, appointment, council, Germans, alcohol, migration, agriculture, French, Protestantism, church (building), education, land, land grant, surveying, gol…

Dispatches from William Tryon to the Earl of Hillsborough numbered 59-67, enclosing documents concerning the Regulators

2019 · Adam Matthew Digital

Keywords: council, naval stores, trade, oath, militia, defence, raising of troops, judge, court of law, sheriff, jury, voting, riot, tax, alcohol, finance, Regulators, skirmish, resignation, soldier, Provincials, Cherok…

Letters and dispatches from William Tryon to the Earl of Hillsborough, October 1768 - May 1769

2019 · Adam Matthew Digital

Keywords: legislation, clergy, Church of England, Protestantism, soldier, wages, sheriff, land, property, trade, currency, import, tax, education, children, Indians, Catawba, boundary, road, murder, customs, family life…

Letters from William Tryon to the Lords Commissioners, enclosing legislation and accounts of the ship 'Brigantine Fox'

2019 · Adam Matthew Digital

Keywords: council, death, appointment, judge, court of law, legislation, assembly, construction, Parliament, manufacturing, textiles, cotton, family life, poverty, ships and sailors, timber, export, import, pitch and ta…

Biographical history of North Carolina from colonial times to the present

Ashe, Samuel A · 1905

Correspondence between Governor Martin and the Earl of Dartmouth, relative to improving public business and the resignation of John Bungwin

1773

Dispatches from Josiah Martin to the Earl of Dartmouth, enclosing copies of petitions and legislation

1773

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