The outrage of the Wentworth proprietors was renewed in 1774 when Governor Tryon passed a law containing harsh provisions clearly targeted at the actions of the " Bennington Mob ".

* March – War of the Regulation: North Carolina Governor William Tryon raises a militia to put down the long running uprising of backcountry militias against North Carolina's colonial government.

* March 12 – The North Carolina General Assembly establishes Wake County ( named for Margaret Wake, the wife of North Carolina Royal Governor William Tryon ) from portions of Cumberland, Johnston and Orange counties.

* May 11 – War of the Regulation: North Carolina Governor William Tryon marches his militia out of Hillsborough to come to the aid of General Hugh Waddell's beleaguered forces.

* May 16 – War of the Regulation: The Battle of Alamance commences after Regulators reject an appeal by Governor Tryon to peacefully disperse.

Lane named Wake County in honor of Margaret Wake, wife of colonial Governor William Tryon.

It was named for the county of Surrey in England, birthplace of William Tryon, Governor of North Carolina from 1765 to 1771.

It was not until 1766 that it was named Hillsborough, after the Earl of Hillsborough, the British secretary of state for the colonies and a relative of royal Governor William Tryon.

follows: " The British generals ... repaired to the house of a Mr. Robert Murray, a Quaker and friend of our cause ; Mrs. Murray treated them with cake and wine, and they were induced to tarry two hours or more, Governor Tryon frequently joking her about her American friends.

The community which has grown into the Town of Clayton was built on a road cut blazed by Governor Tryon ’ s troops around 1770 as they marched North from New Bern to Hillsborough against the Regulators.

Tryon Peak and the Town of Tryon are named for William Tryon, Governor of North Carolina from 1765 to 1771 in recognition of his negotiation with the Cherokee for a treaty during a bloody period of the French and Indian War.

In 1767 William Tryon, Governor of North Carolina ( 1765 — 1771 ), alerted to the heavy bloodshed in this part of western North Carolina, traveled to the area and negotiated peace treaty with the Cherokee, establishing a boundary line between a location near Greenville, South Carolina the highest point on White Oak Mountain ( renamed Tryon Peak by the settlers ).

Map of Polk County, North Carolina with Municipal and Township labelsIn 1839 a post office was established at the base of Tryon peak, both named after Governor Tryon.

On July 11, 1779, Norwalk, Connecticut was burned by the British Tories under Governor Tryon.

During the revolutionary war — on April 25, 1777 a 1, 850 strong British force under the command of the Royal Governor of the Province of New York, Major General William Tryon landed on Compo Beach to demolish the Continental Army ’ s military supplies in Danbury.

The latest Indians, the Seneca named Wellsville " Gistaguat " according to a map produced in 1771 by Guy Johnson, as the official map of New York State at the time, for then Governor William Tryon.

As the area initially owned and settled by Johnson grew, he convinced the Governor, Lord William Tryon, to establish a new county in upstate New York west of Albany County.

As Deputy Attorney General in 1768 Hooper worked with Colonial Governor William Tryon to suppress a rebellious group known as the Regulators who participated in the War of the Regulation.

Hooper advised that Governor Tryon use as much force as was necessary to stamp out the rebels, and even accompanied the troops at the Battle of Alamance in 1771.

Hooper ’ s support of the colonial governments began to erode, causing problems for him due to his past support of Governor Tryon.

The Beach Boys rescheduled their concert and played a Kirby Park concert on Labor Day weekend, Sunday September 3, 2006, attended by Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell.

The Scottsboro Boys had served long prison sentences when the arch segregationist Alabama Governor George Wallace, in one of history's ironies, partially mitigated this widely construed injustice ( after the United States Supreme Court had failed to do so twice ) by issuing a pardon in 1976 for the one remaining Scottsboro defendant still subject to the Alabama penal system.

Governor John Penn placed the remaining fourteen Conestogas in protective custody in Lancaster, but the Paxton Boys broke in, killed, and mutilated all fourteen people on December 27, 1763.

As a high school student attending Yankton Senior High School, Brokaw was governor of South Dakota American Legion Boys State, and in that capacity he accompanied then South Dakota Governor Joe Foss to New York City for a joint appearance on a TV game show.

Following the election of Governor William Winter, he returned to Mississippi to work in the governor's office, where the youthful staff – which included Mabus, Dick Molpus, John Henegan and Andy Mullins – earned the nickname " Boys of Spring " from a rival state legislator.

Dick Molpus was among several younger staff members, including future Governor Ray Mabus, known as the " Boys of Spring " who helped guide Governor Winter's historic

Harris Promenade, named after Lord Harris ( Governor of Trinidad 1845 – 54 ), houses City Hall, the Magistrates Court, Supreme Court, Police Station, Anglican, Roman Catholic and Methodist churches and two schools, St. Joseph's Convent, San Fernando San Fernando Boys ' R. C and St. Gabriel's Girls R. C.

John Boys ( 1607 – 8 October 1664 ) is best known as the Royalist captain who was the Governor of Donnington Castle in Berkshire during the English Civil War.

Even though Colonel Horton had been reinforced, with additional men, Governor John Boys refused to concede and even invited Horton to surrender his forces.

For his great services in defense of the castle Governor John Boys was knighted on 21 October 1644.

Fitzpatrick was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit by the then Governor General of New Zealand Sir Michael Hardie Boys in 1997.

Such activities have ranged from the Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officers ’ Training Corps ( ROTC ) unit, founded in the late 1960s by former governor Sidney McMath, to the Catholic High Band ; from work on the yearbook or newspaper, to serving as a delegate to the Model United Nations, or as a participant in Governor ’ s School or Boys ’ State.

* Walter Stewart Owen, the first Premier of the TUXIS and Older Boys ' Parliament of British Columbia and later Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia

" On The Wire, it is mentioned on " Boys of Summer " as an event that proved problematic for a former Baltimore Mayor that at the same time enabled Maryland's Governor to become a Vice Presidential Nominee.

including Adam-12, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Love Boat, Murder, She Wrote, Star Trek: Voyager, ER, Freaks and Geeks, The Nancy Drew / Hardy Boys Mysteries, Law & Order ( both: SVU and: CI ), The 4400, Tales from the Crypt and The West Wing where he portrayed Governor Jack Buckland, among others.

Harley exchanged £ 8, 000 of debt and was appointed Governor of the new company.

Governor Peter Osbourne and his Royalist troops occupied Castle Cornet in 1643, which had been built to protect Guernsey, and constantly exchanged fire with the town of St. Peter Port for almost nine years.

In the following year he exchanged into the 41st Foot and was appointed Governor of Western Australia, where he arrived on 26 January 1846.

Stoughton and Acadian Governor Joseph Robineau de Villebon exchanged complaints and threats in 1698 over the issue, with Villebon issuing largely empty threats ( he lacked the needed resources to execute them ) to seize Massachusetts ships and property left in Acadian territory.

His father was exchanged for King Stephen, and during his father's absence in Normandy in 1144 he served as Governor of Wareham.

He was finally paroled in August 1778, having been exchanged for William Franklin, Loyalist Governor of New Jersey, and Benjamin Franklin's son.