When the home of Josiah Martin, a governor of this colony, was attacked and he was forced to flee to the HMS Cruizer, this colony’s Mecklenburg Resolves were published. John Barnwell was called to put down a revolt in this colony led by Tom Blount after Thomas Carey refused to relinquish governorship to Edward Hyde. Benjamin Merrill was executed in this colony during a war where one leader, a Quaker, abruptly fled battle; that leader was Herman Husband. Rebels in this colony were defeated at (*) Alamance by a governor who built a mansion at New Bern, William Tryon. Colonists in this state fought the Tuscarora and the Regulator War. Virginia Dare was born in this state at a site where the word CROATOAN was found after it was mysteriously abandoned. For 10 points, Roanoke Island is in the Outer Banks of what modern-day state with a capital at Raleigh? ■END■
ANSWER: North Carolina [or NC; accept Province of North Carolina]
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