- Title
- Correspondence of William Tryon and other selected papers: Volume 2
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- Date
- 1981
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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 2
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13 Will Cray is most likely William Cray, representative of Onslow County. William
Gray, representative from Bertie County, was a contemporary of Cray, and occasional
confusion of the two men by clerks of the time and later historians seems to have occurred.
Gray’s terms spanned the years 1760-1768. He attended two sessions of the provincial
congress (August, 1775, and November, 1776); he was also a delegate to the Constitu¬
tional Convention of 1788. Cray’s terms in the assembly spanned the years 1764-1777; in
1777-1778 he was president of the council of state. He, too, was a delegate to two terms of
the provincial congress (August, 1774, and April, 1775). His death occurred in 1778.
Cheney, North Carolina Government, 49, 51, 52, 53, 56, 57, 154, 155, 162; R.D.W.
Connor (comp, and ed.), A Manual of North Carolina . . . 1913 (Raleigh: North Carolina
Historical Commission, 1913), 347, 373, 389, 390, 731, 867.
,9William Herritage (d. 1769), of Craven County, had qualified as clerk of the House in
1739, so he had held this position for almost twenty-nine years. A more complete sketch
may be found in volume I, 96 n.6.
20John Harvey (1725-1775) had become Speaker of the House in 1766 and in that
capacity was one of the most powerful men in the colony. See sketch in volume I, 95 n.l.
William Tryon
to the Earl of Shelburne
PRO CO
5/311,
f. 66
PRO CO
5/328,
ff. 34-351
PRO CO
5/300,
ff. 123-123b
MH-TLB, 202-203
A&H-TLB, 183-184
CR-VII, 697-698
N9 28
Earl of Shelburne
My Lord
Brunswick 14. March 1768.
[Received June 11, 1768]
With this Dispatch I have the Honor to inclose to Your Lordship the
Minutes of the Council up to the Date hereof. They follow in succession
those certified the 16^ of July 1767, by
МГ
Heron, Secretary of the
Province.
Your Lordship may observe the Gentlemen I have appointed Asso¬
ciate Judges agreeable to the last Superior Court Law, are
МГ
Maurice
Moore and
МГ
Richard Henderson. The former Gentleman I suspended
during the late destractions in the Colonies,2 His proper Conduct and
Behavior since that period, and the British Act of Grace subsequent to
those Troubles, induced me with the approbation of the Council, to re¬
instate
МГ
Moore in His Office.
МГ
Henderson is a Gentleman of Candor
and Ability, born in Virginia, and about thirty three Years of Age. He
lives near Hillsborough in the back Country, among a People whom
I am persuaded will be happy at having such a Distinction paid to
one who resides among them, and for whom they entertain an Esteem.
1 wished to have appointed Ml Edmund Fanning as one of the Asso¬
ciates, as His Conduct while assistant Judge in very critical Times, gave
me the most favorable Opinion of the Integrity of his Principles:
however he declined giving me an Opportunity to mention him in
Council for that Office, as did also
МГ
Marmaduke Jones a Gentleman
not inferior in Abilities to any of His Profession in this Country.
56
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