Thomas Cary

Thomas Cary was the sixth Deputy Governor of the Province of Carolina at a time when the deputy governor's role was to oversee and manage what is now the state of North Carolina. Cary is most well known for his role in Cary's Rebellion between 1708 and 1711, in which he usurped power from then-deputy-governor William Glover, driving Glover from the province. In 1711, when Edward Hyde was appointed the first Governor of the Province of North Carolina, Cary put up resistance to Hyde's new authority, thus causing an outbreak of violence in the colony. Cary was eventually defeated, and Hyde took office as planned.