Statewide-Orange County NcArchives History .....The Hillsboro' Riots: Gov. Tryon's Proclamation October 13, 1770
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From The Supplement to the Cape Fear Mercury - Oct. 13, 1770

            BY HIS EXCELLENCY
        WILLIAM TRYON, ESQUIRE
   HIS MAJESTY'S CAPTAIN-GENERAL, GOVERNOR and COMMANDER IN CHIEF 
            OVER SAID PROVINCE 
          A PROCLAMATION!
   Whereas, I have received information that a great number of outrageous and 
disorderly Persons did tumultouosly 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 Town, 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 Council, 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 rreceive the deposition of such Person or Persons 
as shall appear before them to make Information of and conderning 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 nesxt, to which Time 
it stands Prorogues, for the immediate Dispatch of Public Business.
   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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