How a New York governor once plotted to assassinate George Washington

New York Post ^ | December 30, 2018 | Larry Getlen

[TBP]

On June 25, 1775, William Tryon — the governor of the British colony of New York and a fierce loyalist to the crown — returned to New York City after a yearlong trip overseas. As such, he fully expected to be greeted by a public procession on Broadway.

Tryon disembarked from his boat and was indeed met with a parade, but there was just one problem: It wasn’t for him.

That same day, the new Commander in Chief of the Continental Army, George Washington, had arrived in the city and was met with a hero’s welcome. Adding insult to injury, Tryon was not only forced to wait several hours for Washington’s procession to end, he also had to put up with a crowd jeering — at him.

“Tryon, accustomed to calling the shots in his own colony, must be appalled that this enemy … would parade through Manhattan right under his nose. New York is Tryon’s city, and the public should be cheering for him — not for some usurper,” write Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch, authors of the new book, “The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington and the Birth of American Counterintelligence” (Flatiron Books), out Jan. 8.

[TBP]

What an interesting story!

This guy has a park and a street named after him in New York and an estate in North Carolina.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

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[Gene Eric]

Not uncommon to name streets after Revolutionary friends and foes.

[robowombat]

His estate was his grand governor's mansion. The cost of which provoked a large revolt in western North Carolina. The East Carolina gentry such as Ashe and Caswell were happy to lead the militia to crush the rebellious rustics of the western counties. These are the same people who led the forces rebelling against Geo. III and his royal governor. Not Tryon, he had gone to NY to be the governor there. He never set foot in New York. Stayed on a British warship the whole time until the city of NY was captured and a military governor put in place,

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[Pollster1]

President Trump is not the first great American leader to face this level of lawless evil from his opponents.

[Verginius Rufus]

Earlier, William Tryon was the royal governor of North Carolina. He took a hard line towards the Regulators and defeated them in the battle of Alamance in May 1771, which is sometimes considered the first battle of the Revolution. After the battle he executed seven of the Regulators who had been taken prisoner.

The Regulators were resisting corruption and unfair laws in the colony so their issues are not directly connected to the colonies' resistance to Parliament. Some of the militia under Tryon later supported the Patriot cause in the Revolution and some of the Regulators were later Loyalists (while others supported independence).

The battlefield, in Alamance Co., NC, is worth a visit.

[Garvin]

The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge.

[Verginius Rufus]

Yes, I know that the Revolutionary War is generally considered to start with Lexington and Concord. I don't disagree with that. I said the battle of Alamance is "sometimes considered" the first battle--that is obviously a minority opinion (probably mostly held by people living in or near Alamance County, NC). The Patriots at the time were divided in their attitude towards the Regulators. But a lot of them were agreed that Tryon was a bad guy--at least after his later actions.

As a member of the Sons of the American Revolution whose Revolutionary War ancestor was in the Virginia militia at Yorktown, I do have a basic knowledge of the Revolutionary War.

[Garvin]

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