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William Tryon

1729–1788 · 18th century

William Tryon was a British army officer and colonial governor of North Carolina from 1765 to 1771 and of New York from 1771 to 1780. In North Carolina he built Tryon Palace at New Bern and crushed the Regulator movement at Alamance in 1771; in the Revolutionary War he led Loyalist raids in Connecticut.

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Province of North Carolina

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). William Tryon. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/william-tryon
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