![John Lawson wearing a powdered wig.](/sites/default/files/2021-05/JL%20640x480.png)
Painting of John Lawson. The Lawson Trek.
(mid to late 1600s-1711) John Lawson was a British explorer, naturalist, and writer who explored the Carolina backcountry and published the first natural historical survey of the area in the book A New Voyage to Carolina.
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