Norristown
a borough and countyseat of Montgomery co., Pa.; on the Schuylkill river, river, the Schuylkill canal, he renounced the right of taxing the colonies, already seeing that the war was hopeless, and in 1782 he resigned.
Fox's dislike of the terms of peace with America led him to enter into a coalition with North, whom he had for so many years inveighed against. North and Fox took office under the Duke of NORTH Portland in 1783, but the coalition destroyed Fox's popularity, and the Portland administration only lasted a few months. He died Aug. 5, 1792