Thomas Miller (North Carolina governor): Difference between revisions

Miller was appointed Interim Governor<ref name=" eastchurch NCpedia"> [http://ncpedia.org/biography/governors/eastchurch NCpedia: THOMAS EASTCHURCH]. Written by Dennis F. Daniel. Research Branch, NC Office of Archives and History, 2006.</ref> and [[President of the Executive Council]] (obtained a commission)<ref name=" eastchurch carolana"> [http://www.carolana.com/Carolina/Governors/teastchurch.html Carolana: Thomas Eastchurch Appointed Governor of Albemarle 1677]. Written by J.D.Lewis. 2007.</ref> of Albemarle by the official governor [[Thomas Eastchurch]] in summer 1677, because Eastchurch, after be re-named governor of Albemarle by the [[Lords Proprietors]] in [[London]] (to where traveled with Miller) and embark again to North Carolina, stop temporarily in [[Nevis Island]],<ref name=" eastchurch carolana"/> in the Caribbean, where he met and decided marry a women before returned to North Carolina, spending there his honeymoon. During his absence, Miller occupied his place in the government of County,<ref name=" eastchurch NCpedia"/><ref name=" eastchurch carolana"/><ref name=" northcaroculpeper Rebellion"> [http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/539/entry Culpeper Rebellion]. North Carolina History project. 2015 John Locke Foundation.</ref> being elected by Eastchurch because he was his fellow proprietary and traveling companion.<ref name=" eastchurch NCpedia"/> However, after of start his government in Albemarle, he was imprisoned because of the crimes that seems that he exercised in the county and the revolts that these crimes originated.<ref name=" eastchurch NCpedia"/>