Back in 1982, I wrote one of my first extended genealogies. William Tryon was a “royal governor” of North Carolina. I knew that meant he was appointed by the King of England, but I thought maybe he might have had actual royal ancestors I could trace.

This was many years before the internet, so I did my research the old-fashioned way in my local public library in New Bern, NC. I also had some pages I had photocopied in the past from a journal I had found in another library in Roxboro, NC.

I typed this booklet on a little portable typewriter I had bought for college in 1971. I photographed the pages, converted the images to black and white, and cleaned them up. Because of the variable darkness of the type and the fact that I used a camera instead of a scanner, some of the text is hard to read and blurry. I apologize. I will replace this file later when I get my scanner working again.

This is a very short booklet, based on the information that I had available at the time. It would be many times larger, if I wrote it today. I may rewrite it in the future.

Here is the link: “Gov. William Tryon And His Royal Ancestors.”