Tryon+Palace

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 * Tryons Palace was build by Governor Tryonand was completed in 1770 in the newly designated capital of New Bern.It rivaled any government building in the British Empire.The was to be honor to British America.The had three floors.Servants worked in the basement storerooms.The official business of the colony was conducted on the first floor.Thegoverner had his office there,and theProvincial Councilmade up of the leading men,met the large room next to it.The governer also hosted official ceremonies in the council room.The governer and his family lived on the second floor.Two small buildings flanked the main structure.On the building was kitchen;the other ,a stable.Tryon moved into the house in 1770and stayed therefor only couple of years.While in residense,the Tryons gave very popular reception and parties foe the members of the assembly.After the Battle of Alamance,Tryon was named governor of New York.and he went to live in Manhattan.Josiah Martin lived there until he had to flee colony at the start of American Revolution.When state government was moved inland to cope with the war in 1779,the palace lost its official status.The building burned down to its foundation after hay stored in it caught fire in 1798.After the World War2 the building was raised again and was opened in 1959 for tourist destinationin the state since then.**


 * THE BATTLE OF ALAMANCE**
 * Governer Tryon, assuming that the Regulators would rise again, gathered militia from across the Coastal Plain and marched on Hillsborough against the insurgents.The Regulators gathered at Alamance Creek, about fifteen miles southwest of Hillsborough.On May 16,1771.Tryon ordered them to disperse.When they did not ,he ordered the militia to fire upon them.At least 20 were killed and another 150 wounded.Tryon then marched small towards Salisbury.Eventually ,more then six thousand backcountry men came into Salisbury and Bethebara to gain a pardon.After returning to Hillsborough,twelve more Regulators were tried and condemned.Tryon pardoned six of them and hanged rest of them.The end to the Regulators did not solve any of the problems NC faced in the 1770s.The King promoted Tryon the governor of New York.Like husband many other regulators fled.Some went to western part of South Carolina.Those who stayed often faced poverty.Josiah Martin who was governor after Tryon,was surprised at Tryon,s reaction to the Regulation.Although he tried hard to make amends and once again get NC on the path to government and commerce,he could to little.The sheriffs of the various counties still owed the colony more then 66000 money,egual to millionsof dollars today.To make matters worse,within two years of Martin's arrival ,the American Revolution broke out.**