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Letter from William Tryon to Samuel Wyley
Tryon, William, 1729-1788
February 17, 1767
Volume 07, Page 438

[From Tryon's Letter Book.]
Letter from Governor Tryon to Samuel Wyley, Esq, Charles Town

Brunswick 17th February 1767.

Your letter with the plan of the survey you made of the Catawba lands was delivered to me two days after I prorogued the Assembly of the 2d of December last; I now transmit to you an abstract of the Journals of the said Assembly which will not only shew the steps I took in your behalf in consequence of the letters from the Earl of Halifax and the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations, but also the resolution of the House of Assembly: Thus, Sir, you will be informed I have not been unmindful of the claim you have made on this province [which] I imagine will be allowed you when the Commissioners have reported what [will be] the conduct of the Assembly of South Carolina in this affair.

I am &c,