- Title
- Correspondence of William Tryon and other selected papers: Volume 1
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- Date
- 1980
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- Creator
- ["Tryon, William, 1729-1788."]
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Correspondence of William Tryon and other selected papers: Volume 1
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1 William Bui] (1710-1791) was born at Ashley Hall in the colony of South Carolina,
studied, medicine abroad and was the first native American to be awarded the doctor of
medicine degree. Instead of practicing, however, he engaged in planting and politics,
serving in the Commons House of Assembly in his native colony, as a member of the
council , as lieutenant governor, and as acting governor for terms between 1 760 and 1775.
Who ItV^s Who: Historical Volume, 152.
-'Fountain Elwin, Governor Tryon’s private secretary and Mrs. Tryon’s first cousin,
was sworn into office as secretary to the council on December 20, 1765. On occasion he
served as messenger from the governor to the assembly; and in October, 1767, he was in
London and presented his letter from Tryon to the Board of Trade. Saunders, Colonial
Records, VII, 134,357,547.
Fountain Elwin (1736-1833)
was Mrs. Tryon’s first cousin
and served as private secretary
to Governor Tryon, 1764-1767.
Photograph courtesy of Doro¬
thy E. Fountain Stokes, Old
Pastures, Thompson, Thetford,
Norfolk, England.
William Hunter1 to William Tryon
A&H-ER
London, March 2, 1765
May it please Your Excellency
Having in my Last of the 9?h Ullt9 presumed to offer Your Excellency
my Humble Services, I have the Honor at this present to take up your
Time with some little Matters that Occurred, while I negociated [s/c] the
provincial Money in the Agents Hands, & if the Circumstances be too
Inconsiderable for Your Notice, I nevertheless satiate my own Anxiety,
to let nothing escape that affects Your Interest.
Ml Jouvencell2 was surprized, he said, at Sam Smiths3 telling him
some days ago, he was no longer Agent. — But that He (Smith) was
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