Editing Tryon Resolves (section)

{{Short description|Declaration of resistance to British colonial policies}}

What is known today as the '''Tryon Resolves''' (entitled at the time the '''Tryon Declaration of Rights and Independence from British Tyranny''')<ref name= "ptriot" /> was a brief declaration adopted and signed by "subscribers" to the Tryon County Association that was formed in [[Tryon County, North Carolina|Tryon County]], [[Province of North Carolina|North Carolina]] in the early days of the [[American Revolution]]. 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 [[Great Britain]] against its [[British colonization of the Americas|North American colonies]]. 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.