LC control no. | no 91010671 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Lawson, John, 1674-1711 |
Variant(s) | Lawson, John, d. 1712 |
Birth date | 1674 |
Death date | 1711 |
Found in | Brickell, J. The natural history of North-Carolina, 1737 (name not given) MdU/G-K files (hdg.: Lawson, John, d. 1712; note: Brickell's A natural history of North-Carolina is an almost verbal transcript of Lawson's History of Carolina, according to NUC pre-56) DNB (Lawson, John, d. 1712) LC data base, 3/15/91 (hdg.: Lawson, John, d. 1712) Dictionary of North Carolina biography, c1991: (Lawson, John (27 Dec. 1674-16 Sept. 1711), explorer, surveyor, and author of A new voyage to Carolina (London, 1709); his family owned estates in vicinity of Kingston-on-Hull, Yorkshire; attended Gresham Coll.; arrived in NC in Aug. 1700; in the late summer of 1711, while exploring the Neuse River he was taken prisoner by the Tuscarora Indians and put to death) |