Adventurer

John Lawson's adventures are perhaps the best known part of his life. The two incidents that frame his time in North Carolina - his arrival and trek through the backwoods of the colony and his death at the hands of the Tuscarora Indians - characterize Lawson as someone who stepped out on a limb and tested himself against the world. The question is how well he handled this test.

1709 October 3	To Secretary, SPG [Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts]
1710 April 16	Thomas Pollock, To Chenin and Boyd, The Colonial Records of North Carolina, 16 April 1710
1710 April 16	Thomas Pollock, To Glover, The Colonial Records of North Carolina, 16 April 1710
1710 May 27	Thomas Pollock, To Lawson, 27 May 1710
c. 1710	Philip Ludwell, Journal of the Proceedings of Philip Ludwell and Nathaniel Harrison, The Colonial Records of North Carolina, circa 1710
1711 January 29	Edward Hyde, To Alexander Spotswood, Governor of Virginia, The Colonial Records of North Carolina, 29 January 1711
1711 November 2	Christopher Gale, To the Honorable Robert Gibs and To the Honorable Council and General Assembly, circa 2 November 1711
1714	Christoph von Graffenried, "Relation of my American Project", Von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern, circa 1714
	Introduction
	Indian War
	Lawson's Death
	Treaty
	Contract
	Memorial
	Letters
1715 June 12	To Secretary, SPG [Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts], 12 June 1715
1939 May 4	The Torch Leads On: 175 Years of New Bern School in Historic Review, Historical Celebration and Evening Pageant, 4 May 1939
1951	Francis Latham Harriss, Biographical Sketch of John Lawson, Lawson's History of North Carolina, 1951
1992	Marjorie Hudson, Among the Tuscarora: The Strange and Mysterious Death of John Lawson, Gentleman, Explorer, and Writer, North Carolina Literary Review, 1992
1992	Paradise Regained Again: The Literary Context of John Lawson's A New Voyage to Carolina, North Carolina Literary Review, 1992