- 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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Martin Howard and Others pro
со 5/314,
f. 133
to William Try on
[New Bern]
[Marchl8,1771]
Sir
Your Excellency having Signified to us Your Opinion that it is
expedient that the Chief Justice Associate Justices and Attorney
General should Attend the ensuing Superior Court at Hillsborough We
do acquaint your Excellency that we have conferred together upon the
Subject, and Considering the Violences committed there the last Court,
And being well informed that the Disturbances and distractions in that
district are rather encreasing than declining. We submit it to Your
Excellency’s as our Opinion, that we cannot attend that court with any
Hopes of transacting the Business of it, or indeed with any prospect of
Personal safety to ourselves.
M. Howard C.J.
M. Moore
R. Henderson
March 18th 1771
Newbern
His Excelly
Govr. Try on
John Frohock and Alexander Martin
to William Tryon
PRO CO
5/314,
ff. 114115b
CR-VIII, 533-536
Copy Salisbury 18 March 1771.
May it please Your Excellency
As You have been ever attentive to the true Interest of the Province
during Your Administration and have erected every prudent Method to
maintain its Public Peace by endeavouring to quell a most dangerous
and lawless Insurrection that has of late disturbed this part of Your
Government permit Us Sir to discharge our Duty on this Occasion by
informing You to what issue Regulation (as it is called) is brought and
upon what Footing it stands at present in the District of Salisbury.
The Regulators upon their Return from their Expedition to rescue
Hermon Husband, formed a design to visit Salisbury Superior Court
which hearing one of us went down into their Settlements to know the
reality of their Intentions, and found them assembling for that purpose,
though peaceably disposed beyond Expectation. On the sixth of this
Instant they accordingly appeared to the amount of Four or Five
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