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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 27: (search)
later day the sonin-law of Governor Tryon, he was at that time the Representative of the County, one of its magistrates, the highest officer under the Crown in its militia; and was amassing a fortune by oppression as an attorney, and by extortion as Registrar, loading titles to estates with doubts, Compare Sabine's American Loyalists, at the word Edmund Fanning. and charging illegal prices for recording Deeds. For Proofs of Extortion, see Records of the Court held at Hillsborough, September, 1768, printed by Husbands, and reprinted in Wheeler's North Carolina, II. 322. Tryon admits the Fact. He was, above all others, justly obnoxious to the people; and his message to them ran, that their proposition to inquire judiciously Chap. XXVII.} 1766. Oct. implied an intention of setting up a jurisdiction, and looked more like an insurrection than a settlement. We are no critics in words, replied the Meeting; Plain, Simple Narrative of Facts. we know not how many different construc
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 35: (search)
Chapter 35: The Regulators of North Carolina.—Hillsborough's Ad-Ministration of the Colonies continued. July—September, 1768. The people of Boston had gone out of favor with Chap XXXV.} 1768. July. almost every body in England. W. S. Johnson to Thaddeus Burr, London, 28 July, 1768. Even Rockingham had lost all patience, saying the Americans were determined to leave their friends on his side the water, without the power of advancing in their behalf a shadow of excuse. N. Rogers to Hutchinson, 2 July, 1768. This was the state of public feeling, when, on the nineteenth of July, Hallowell arrived in London with letters giving an exaggerated account of what had happened in Boston on the tenth of June. The news was received with general dismay; London, Liverpool and Bristol grew anxious; stocks fell greatly, and continued falling. Rumors came also of a suspension of commerce, and there was a debt due from America to the merchants and manu facturers of England of four m