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THEME/PROJECT
Early American History
SUBJECT
Naturalists--Biography
North Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Tuscarora Indians--Wars, 1711-1713
Indians of North America--North Carolina--History1
Lawson, John, 1674-17111
Tuscarora Indians--North Carolina--History1

John Lawson, Naturalist

One of the most interesting and yet enigmatic figures of colonial North Carolina history is John Lawson. This collection examines natural history specimens Lawson collected from the colony of Carolina for James Petiver, a London apothecary.