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Tryon Resolves
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<p>What is known today as the Tryon Resolves (entitled at the time the Tryon Declaration of Rights and Independence from British Tyranny) was a brief declaration adopted and signed by "subscribers" to the Tryon County Association that was formed in <a href="/facts/Tryon_County,_North_Carolina/rJGvdY9F">Tryon County</a>, <a href="/facts/Province_of_North_Carolina/HHd4oPw3">North Carolina</a> in the early days of the <a href="/facts/American_Revolution/zy1F0LxK">American Revolution</a>. In the Resolves—a modern name for the Association's charter document—the county representatives vowed resistance to the increasingly coercive actions being enacted by the government of <a href="/facts/Great_Britain/TNgGQRPj">Great Britain</a> against its <a href="/facts/British_colonization_of_the_Americas/lySSfBKw">North American colonies</a>. The document was signed on August 14, 1775, but—like other similar declarations of the time—stopped short of calling for total independence from Britain. </p>