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John Lawson (explorer)
John Lawson was an English explorer, naturalist and surveyor in the Carolinas. In 1700 and 1701 he travelled about 900 kilometres through the interior, and his book A New Voyage to Carolina (1709) described its land, plants, animals and Native peoples. Surveyor-general of North Carolina, he helped found Bath and New Bern. In September 1711 he was captured by the Tuscarora on the Neuse and executed, at the start of the Tuscarora War.
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