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Governor Tryon set his heart on living: in a fine house. "I'll build a palace," he said to himself. " It shall be the most stately and expensive mansion in all the American "wilderness."
So he wheedled and flattered the people of North Carolina until the Assembly of 1766 voted him five thousand pounds sterling that he might begin the edifice. The following year ten thousand pounds was added by his minions and their servants in the legislature, and then the huge proportions of this provincial palace thrust themselves into the vision of his fellow conspirators and the amazed people of the colony.
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