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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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