• as "The Tryon Resolves" in the 20th-century.) The Association was formed in response to the April 19, 1775, Battle of Lexington. The Resolves was among...
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  • Massachusetts, 49 county residents gathered at the courthouse and issued the Tryon Resolves, a declaration of resistance to coercive actions by the British Empire...
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  • Rowan Resolves. Committee of Safety (Tryon County, New York), established in 1774. Committee of Safety (Tryon County, North Carolina), issued the Tryon Resolves...
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    Mecklenburg Resolves and the Tryon Resolves in 1775 and at least 90 other documents favoring independence in the spring of 1776, but the resolves from the...
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  • Joseph Hardin Sr. (category Signers of the Tryon Resolves)
    Carolina, and was a signatory of the Tryon Resolves. Early in the War for Independence, as a member of the militia from Tryon County, Hardin fought the Cherokee...
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    produced five resolves, one of which was the Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress: The entire text of Declaration and Resolves can be read...
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    The Mecklenburg Resolves, or Charlotte Town Resolves, were a list of statements adopted at Charlotte, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina on May 31,...
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    courthouse of the colonial-era Tryon County. The courthouse was the site of the signing of the Revolutionary-era Tryon Resolves, a declaration of resistance...
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    of the Halifax Resolves was the first official action in the colonies calling for independence from Great Britain. The Halifax Resolves only empowered...
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    Frederick Hambright (category Signers of the Tryon Resolves)
    30, 1783. Before serving as a soldier, Hambright was a signer of the Tryon Resolves of August 14, 1775, a document which declared that the signers would...
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  • 1775, the signers of "The Resolves," all members of the Tryon County, North Carolina Committee of Safety, formed the Tryon County, North Carolina militia...
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  • Rowan Resolves (August 1774) Edenton Tea Party (October 1774) Mecklenburg Resolves or Declaration (May 1775) Liberty Point Resolves (June 1775) Tryon Resolves...
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    Rowan Resolves (August 1774) Edenton Tea Party (October 1774) Mecklenburg Resolves or Declaration (May 1775) Liberty Point Resolves (June 1775) Tryon Resolves...
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    known as the Chestertown Resolves. These stated that it was unlawful to buy, sell, or drink tea shipped from England. The "Resolves" are a matter of historic...
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    paternal grandfather, William Whiteside Sr., was a patriot who signed the Tryon Resolves during the American Revolutionary War, and whose sons Davis, James,...
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    Rowan Resolves (August 1774) Edenton Tea Party (October 1774) Mecklenburg Resolves or Declaration (May 1775) Liberty Point Resolves (June 1775) Tryon Resolves...
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  • Rowan Resolves (August 1774) Edenton Tea Party (October 1774) Mecklenburg Resolves or Declaration (May 1775) Liberty Point Resolves (June 1775) Tryon Resolves...
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    and Perpetual Union for ratification by the individual States. Halifax Resolves, the first colonial government resolution calling for the nation's independence...
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    and American Revolutionary War. The Continental Congress had hoped to resolve conflict without a war. Following the end of the French and Indian War...
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    Rowan Resolves (August 1774) Edenton Tea Party (October 1774) Mecklenburg Resolves or Declaration (May 1775) Liberty Point Resolves (June 1775) Tryon Resolves...
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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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  • the colony. Dozens of Massachusetts towns responded by passing similar resolves and forming their own committees of correspondence, which helped promote...
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    an ob rem faciam, in vestra manusitum est, quirites. "For my part, I am resolved strenuously to contend for the liberty delivered down to me from my ancestors;...
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  • Rowan Resolves (August 1774) Edenton Tea Party (October 1774) Mecklenburg Resolves or Declaration (May 1775) Liberty Point Resolves (June 1775) Tryon Resolves...
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  • Rowan Resolves (August 1774) Edenton Tea Party (October 1774) Mecklenburg Resolves or Declaration (May 1775) Liberty Point Resolves (June 1775) Tryon Resolves...
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  • in London. The document is significant because, following the Virginia Resolves, it was among the earliest in British America to officially reject the...
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  • Rowan Resolves (August 1774) Edenton Tea Party (October 1774) Mecklenburg Resolves or Declaration (May 1775) Liberty Point Resolves (June 1775) Tryon Resolves...
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  • Edward P. Tryon (September 4, 1940 – December 11, 2019) was an American scientist and a professor emeritus of physics at Hunter College of the City University...
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    Congress, meeting to craft a united response to the Intolerable Acts, resolved to address letters to the populations of Quebec, St. John's Island, Nova...
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  • William Graham (colonel) (category Signers of the Tryon Resolves)
    There he was one of forty signers of the Tryon Resolves. In 1776, he served as a delegate from the extinct Tryon County, North Carolina to the 3rd and 5th...
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