Text Summary and Effect
In the Tryon Resolves:
- The county residents refer to "the painful necessity of having recourse to arms in defense of our National freedom and constitutional rights, against all invasions;
- Vow to take up arms and risk our lives and our fortunes in maintaining the freedom of our country..."
- The colonists declare they will continue to follow the Continental Congress or Provincial Conventions in defiance of British declarations that these were illegal;
- The signers warn that force will be met with force until such a time as a "reconciliation" can be made between the colonies and Britain.
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