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    Lieutenant-General William Tryon (8 June 1729 – 27 January 1788) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as governor of North...
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    pursuits, equestrian activity, and fine arts. Tryon Peak and the Town of Tryon are named for William Tryon, Governor of North Carolina from 1765 to 1771...
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    historic site. William Tryon was a British officer and colonial official who served as the governor of North-Carolina from 1765 to 1771. Tryon had seen the...
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    Dwight William Tryon (August 13, 1849 – July 1, 1925) was an American landscape painter in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work was influenced...
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    Royal Governor of North Carolina until his death in 1765. William Tryon succeeded him. Tryon had a lavish home built in 1770 in New Bern. This was resented...
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    Burlington, North Carolina. In the spring of 1771, North Carolina Governor William Tryon left New Bern, having mustered 1,000 militia troops and 8 cannons. They...
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  • inaccurate and delayed surveying, Tryon County encompassed a large area of northwestern South Carolina. It was named for William Tryon, governor of the North Carolina...
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    Margaret Wake Tryon (c.1732 – 1819) was an English heiress and the wife of William Tryon, who served as the Colonial Governor of North Carolina and the...
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    was created from Albany County on March 24, 1772, and was named for William Tryon, the last provincial governor of New York. The county's boundaries extended...
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  • Tryon's Raid occurred in July 1779, during the American Revolutionary War, in which 2700 men, led by British Major General William Tryon, raided the Connecticut...
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    A correspondence between Franklin's collaborator, British General William Tryon, and Lord George Germain led to Franklin receiving official blessing...
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  • Reverend William Milton Tryon (March 10, 1809 – November 16, 1847) was an American missionary, pastor, Baptist minister and co-founder of Baylor University...
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  • 16, 1771. Shortly thereafter, he was executed as a rebel by Governor William Tryon. Merrill was born c. 1731 in Hopewell, New Jersey. He became a gunsmith...
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  • African cricketer Darrell Tryon (1942-2013), Australian linguist Dwight William Tryon (1849–1925), American painter Edward Tryon (fl. 20th century), American...
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    Fort Tryon Park is a public park located in the Washington Heights and Inwood neighborhoods of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The 67-acre...
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    South Tryon 525 North Tryon 200 South Tryon 300 South Tryon 112 Tryon Plaza South Tryon Square Legacy Union Two Wells Fargo Center 201 South Tryon Trade...
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    Archived from the original on July 23, 2008. Retrieved July 24, 2008. "Finding Tryon County Ancestors". Gaston-Lincoln Regional Library System. Archived from...
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    C. K. G. Billings (redirect from Tryon Hall)
    grounds. Billings called it "Tryon Hall" after Fort Tryon, which had been located there and was named for Sir William Tryon, the last Governor of the English...
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    Thomas Lester Tryon (January 14, 1926 – September 4, 1991) was an American actor and novelist. As an actor, he was billed as Tom Tryon and is best known...
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    1787 to 1796. Murray was born in Taymouth, Scotland, the eldest son of William Murray, 3rd Earl of Dunmore, by his marriage to Catherine Nairne; he was...
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  • command of the Royal Governor of the Province of New York, Major General William Tryon, landed at Compo, Connecticut between Fairfield and Norwalk in what...
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    where, among other visitors, the captain entertained William Tryon; Allen reports that Tryon glanced at him without any sign of recognition, although...
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    month later. March – War of the Regulation: North Carolina Governor William Tryon raises a militia, to put down the long-running uprising of backcountry...
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    Mobb...," Houston resigned his position at the courthouse. Governor William Tryon made attempts to mitigate the opposition, to no avail. On November 18...
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    057 Fonda March 12, 1772 Albany County Originally Tryon County after colonial governor William Tryon (1729–1788), renamed after the American Revolutionary...
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    secretary of state for the colonies, and a relative of royal Governor William Tryon. Hillsborough was an early Piedmont colonial town where court was held...
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    capital in 1766. Construction of Tryon Palace, which served as the residence and offices of the provincial governor William Tryon, began in 1767 and was completed...
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  • cast as recurring character, and real-life historical figure, Governor William Tryon in STARZ's television adaptation of Diana Gabaldon's best selling Scottish...
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    and Johnston counties, and was named for Margaret Wake Tryon, the wife of Governor William Tryon. The first county seat was Bloomsbury. New Bern, a port...
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  • John Burgoyne, Artemas Ward, William Prescott, General Putnam, Major Gridley, Charles Lee, Horatio Gates, William Tryon, Daniel Morgan, Bonvouloir, Richard...
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