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John Lawson, a naturalist, explorer, and surveyor general for the Lords Proprietors, traveled through the interior of the Carolina colony in 1700-01 and described the 550-mile journey in A New Voyage to Carolina, published in 1709. He was killed by Tuscarora Indians while exploring the Neuse River in 1711, and his house stood nearby.
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Bath, North Carolina · United States
