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Deputy governors of North Carolina, 1691–1712. Thomas Jarvis 1691–1694. Thomas Harvey 1694–1699. Henderson Walker 1699–1704 (acting) Robert Daniell 1704–1705. Thomas Cary 1705–1706. William Glover 1706–1708 (acting) Thomas Cary 1708–1711.
Josiah Martin. Abolished. July 4, 1776. The governor of North Carolina from 1712 to 1776 was the representative of the British monarch in North Carolina. From 1729 to 1776, he was appointed by the monarch on the advice of the secretary of state for the Southern Department and the Board of Trade. The role of the governor was to act as the de ...
American War of Independence. Battle of Ridgefield. Lieutenant-General William Tryon (8 June 1729 – 27 January 1788) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as governor of North Carolina from 1764 to 1771 and the governor of New York from 1771 to 1777. He also served during the Seven Years' War, the Regulator Movement ...
While governor of North Carolina, Dobbs sought unsuccessfully to establish a permanent capital, to be called George City, near Tower Hill and the Neuse River. [4] Plans were drawn up for a Palladian governor's mansion similar to Tryon Palace, which Dobbs' successor, William Tryon, would erect 10 years later in New Bern. [4]
26 March 1722 (aged 48) Bertie County, North Carolina. Resting place. St. Paul's Church, Edenton. 36°03′40.6″N 76°36′31.8″W / 36.061278°N 76.608833°W / 36.061278; -76.608833. Spouse. Penelope Golland. Charles Eden (1673 – 26 March 1722) was a British colonial official who served as the second Governor of North Carolina ...
The Province of North Carolina, originally known as Albemarle Province, was a proprietary colony and later royal colony of Great Britain that existed in North America from 1712 to 1776. [2](p. 80) It was one of the five Southern colonies and one of the thirteen American colonies.
He was a member of the first board of trustees for King's College (now Columbia University) in 1754 and a member of the royal council of New York in 1754–1755. From 1759 to 1764, he was on the council of the governor of the Province of New York. Josiah Martin, the younger, married his first cousin Elizabeth Martin, daughter of the elder ...
Strength. 1,500. ~2,300. The Regulator Movement in North Carolina, also known as the Regulator Insurrection, War of Regulation, and War of the Regulation, was an uprising in Provincial North Carolina from 1766 to 1771 in which citizens took up arms against colonial officials whom they viewed as corrupt.