Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. 1765. Tryon Becomes Governor--His Character and Conduct--The Stamp Act--Arrival of the Sloop of War Diligence at Brunswick--Colonel Waddell, with Colonel Ashe and others, Resists the Landing of the Stamps. PON the death of Governor Dobbs, Tryon DEGREES succeeded to the Governorship and qualified on the 3d April, 1765. He was an accomplished man of the world and a gallant soldier, but he was also vain and imperious. He still retained his rank in the British army and his place in the regular line of promotion, and he was ambitious of distinction in the administration of a Colonial government in which there had been, for many years, continual disagreement between the Assembly and his predecessors, and growing dissatisfaction among the people with their local civil officers. So far as their relations with the Crown were concerned, the inhabitants of the Province of North Carolina were as loyal as its most loyal subjects anywhere, but they had, particularly in the Western part of the Province, been annoyed, irritated and oppressed by the petty frauds and extortions practiced upon them by entry-takers, deputy surveyors, land agents and court officers, and by the failure, in man}' cases, of their own Assembly to provide adequate remedies for these evils. The character of Governor Tryon was totally different from that of Governor Dobbs. He was more adroit and conciliatory, and while cherishing high ideas of prerogative, was free from the little infirmities which age had only emphasized in Dobbs. He was passionate, but his passion was under control; he was young and vigorous, but--beyond a desire to display some "pomp and circumstance," and to live luxuriously--was not disposed to harry or oppress the people. His appointment to the office...
