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Letter from William Tryon to Benjamin Barons
Tryon, William, 1729-1788
June 17, 1766
Volume 07, Page 222

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[From Tryon's Letter Book.]
Letter from Governor Tryon to Benjamin Barons, Esq.

Brunswick the 17th June 1766

The favor of your letter of the 27th of last month received the 1st inst. As the circumstances of the times does not so immediately require expedition for public dispatches as before the repeal of the Stamp Act, I have ordered my Secretary to inform Mr Burgwin I have no further occasion to subscribe for a messenger to go from Wilmington to Charles Town. Till I see a difference of behaviour among the gentlemen of that borough, I cannot expect any proposals I should make agreeable to your plan, will meet with their proper effect.

I am, &c.