Note 726 — Chapter V
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His commission as deputy governor was to come from the Executive in South Carolina. The governor there—Tynte—was dead, and Hyde’s formal commission delayed. In December, 1710, it was proposed among the Proprietors to appoint a separate governor for North Carolina. Hyde received the appointment, and was sworn in—the first “Governor of North Carolina”—in 1712. Abstracts, etc., N. C., p. 23. The population of the colony was at this time about 7,000, white and black.