Orange-Craven County NcArchives News.....Hillsborough Riots October 13, 1770
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Supp. To The Cape Fear Mercury (Wilmington) October 13, 1770
NORTH CAROLINA
BY his Excellency
WILLIAM TRYON, ESQUIRE
His Majesty's Captain General, Governor, and Commander in Chief, in and over 
said Province
                              A PROCLAMATION
Whereas, I have received information that a great number of outrageous and 
disorderly Persons did tumultously assemble themselves together in the Town of 
Hillsborough, on the 25th of last month, during the sitting of the Superior 
Court of Justice of that district, to oppose the Just Measures of Government, 
and in open Violation of the Laws of their Country, audaciously attacking his 
Majesty's Associate Justice in the Execution of his Office, and barbarously 
beating and wounding several Persons in and during the sitting of the said 
Court and offering other enormous Indignities and Insults to his Majesty's 
Government, Committing the most violent Outrages on the Persons and properties 
of the Inhabitants of the said Townk, drinking Damnation to their lawful 
Sovreign KING GEORGE and Success to the Pretender: To the End, therefore, that 
the Persons concerned in the said outrageous Acts may be brought to Justice, I 
do, by the Advice and Consent of his Majesty's Councilk, issue this, my 
Proclamation, hereby requiring and strictly enjoining all his Majesty's 
Justices of the Peace in this Government to make diligent Inquiry into the 
above recited Crimes, and to receive the deposition of such Person or Persons 
as shall appear before them to make Information of and concerning the same; 
which Depositions are to be transmitted to me, in Order to be laid before the 
General Assembly in Newbern, on the 30th day of November next, to which Time 
it stands Prorogues, for the immediate Dispatch of Public Buisness.

Given under my Hand, and the Great Seal of the Province, at Newbern, the 18th 
Day of October, in the 10th year of his Majesty's Reign, Anno Dom. 1770.
                                             WILLIAM TRYON
By his Excellency's Command
    JOHN LONDON, Sec.
GOD SAVE THE KING

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