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.
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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