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great wealth. Upon the death of Governor
Dobbs, July 20, 1765, hesueceeded liini as governor
of the state. On account of the attitude of tiie
colonists toward the Stamp Act, Governor Tryon
twice prorogued the assembly, .so as to prevent
the election of delegates from North Carolina to
the Stiimp Act congress. He was forced to sur-
render the two ves.sels seized in 1766, for lack of
clearance papers duly stamped, and also to re-
lease William (not James, as generally stated)
Houston, stamp-officer, whom he had sheltered.
Houston wius tiien forced to sign an oatli against
receiving stamp-paper. Governor Tryon's letter-
book, which (roiitains his reports to the British
government concerning those troublous times in
North Carolina, was purchased by Harvard col-
lege in 1845. Governor Tryon ran the boundary
line between North Carolina and the Cherokees,
May-June, 17G7, and after the battle with the
regulators at Alamance, May 16, 1771, hung six
of the otTeiiders. He was transferred to the gov-
ernorship of New York, by effecting an exchange
with the Earl of Dunmore, in July, 1772; re-
turned to England in April, 1774, Cadwallader
Colden acting as governor in the interim, and or-
dered back to his post in June, 1775. On his re-
turn to New York, the colony being in an open
state of rebellion, he souglit refuge in the sloop
Hulifax, and subsequently in the Dutchess of
Gordon, remaining for nearly a year in the North
river and off Sandy Hook. He re-entered New
York in September, 1776; took command of a
corps of provincial loyalists, April, 1777, and sub-
sequently of the 70th (Surrey) regiment, being
commissioned major-general " in America." He
made a successful expedition into Connecticut
in tiie summer of 1779; was left by Sir Henry
Clinton in command of the New York district in
the following winter, and in 1780 returned to
England, having been released from the gov-
ernorship at his own request and was succeeded
by James Robertson (q.v.). Previous to liis de-
parture his lands were forfeited, and he was at-
tainted by act of congress, Oct. 22, 1779. He was
promoted lieutenant-general, Nov. 20, 1782. See:
" Documents Relating to Colonial History of
New York State" (18.57; Vol. VIII.); "Dart-
mouth Papers" (Vol. II.); Sabine's " Loyalistsof
American Revolution" (18G4; Vol. II.), and Wil-
son's "Memorial History of New York " (1892).
Governor Tryon died in London, Dec. 27, 1788.
TUCKER, George, author and representative, was born in B.-rinuda, in 1775. He came to Virginia about 1787, where his early education was superintended by his relative, Judge St. George Tucker (c^.v.). He was graduated from William and Mary college, A.B., 1797; and began the practice of law in Lynchburg, Va. He was a member of tiie state legiskiture for several years;
a Democratic representative in the 16th. 17th and
18tli congresses, 1819-25, and professor of moral
philosoi)liy and political economy in the Univer-
sity of Virginia, 182.5-45. He is the autiior of:
Letters on the Conspiracy of Slaves in Virginia
(1800); Letters on the Roanoke Navigation (1811);
Recollections of Eleanor Rosalie Tucker (1819);
Essays on Subjects of Taste, Morals, and National
Policy (1822); The Valley of the Sheiiandoah, a
novel (1824) reprinted in England and translated
into German; A Voyage to the Moon, under the
pen-name of Joseph Atterley (1827); Principles
of Rent, Wages, and Profits, Piblic Discourse on
the Literature of the United States, and Life of
Thomas Jefferson (1837), the last reprinted in
London; The Theory of Money Banks Investigated
(1839); Essay on Cause and Effect {lSi2); Essay
on the Association of Ideas; Public Discourses on
the Dangers most Tlirratening to the United States,
and Progress of the United States in Population
and Wealth in Fifty Years (1843); Memoir of the
Life and Character of Dr. John P. Emmet, and
Correspondence with Alexander H. Everett on
Political Economy (1845); History of the United
States from their Colonization to the End of the
Twenty-sixth Congress in 1841 (4 vols., 18.56-58);
Banks or No Banks (1857), and Essays, Moral and
Philosophical (1857). He died in Sherwood, Albe-
marle county, Va., April 10. 1%1.
TUCKER, Henry Holcombe, educator, was born in Warren county, Ga., May 10, 1819; son of Germain and Frances Henrietta (Holcombe) Tucker; grandson of Isaiah and Sarah (Gibson) Tucker (the former settling in Georgia, 1761), and of the Rev. Henry Holcombe of Virginia (q.v.). He was graduated from Columbian college, Washington, D.C., A.B., 1838, A.M.. 1841; was established as a merchant in Charles- ton, S.C, 1839-42; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Forsyth, Ga., 1846, and prac- tised, 1846-48, aban- doning the legal pro fession for that of tiu ministry. He was an instructor in Soutii- ern Female college, Lagrange, Ga., 1848- 51, meanwhile studv- ing theology at Mer- cer university; was ' ordained to the Bap-/ tist ministry, 1851; declined the presi- dency of Wake Forest ■■ college, N.C., 18-53, «f8«« uA.,„ti.i.Tv.
and was appointed pastor in Alexandria. Va., in 1854, resigning soon afterward on account of liis he.ilth. He was first married, in 1848,
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