
	Where results make sense

Topic: John Lawson

	John Lawson links and images (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Lawson factoid #1: A New Voyage to Carolina was first published as A Description of North-Carolina in 1708 as part of A New Collection of Voyages and Travel, selected and arranged by John Stevens.
		Lawson factoid #2: When the North Carolina State capitol burned in 1831, its library was destroyed (along with an original copy of John Lawson's History of Carolina).
		The capture of John Lawson and Von Graffenried by Tuscaroras in 1711 (from Lambert Lilly's The Early History of the Southern States, Philadelphia, 1832).
	www.tradingpath.org /lawson/lawson1.html (323 words)

	Historic Bath - John Lawson
		The Lords Proprietors —wealthy Englishmen appointed by the Crown to govern the settlement of Carolina—assigned John Lawson to conduct a reconnaissance survey of the interior of the province.
		Lawson was active in Bath's political and economic life and that of the county.
		Though Lawson claimed that his reason for coming to America involved a desire to travel, there is good reason to believe that he may have been urged or hired to make the trip by James Petiver.
	www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us /sections/hs/bath/lawson.htm (1335 words)

	John Lawson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Lawson (1674-1711) was an Englishman who became the first Surveyor-General of North Carolina.
		Lawson played a role in the founding of New Bern.
		He was tortured and eventually killed by Tuscarora Indians - some say because they were angry with him for his role in bringing the settlers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Lawson (106 words)

	SIR JOHN LAWSON - LoveToKnow Article on SIR JOHN LAWSON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Lawson took part in the battles of June and July in the following summer.
		Appointed in January 1655-1656 as Blakes second-in-command, Lawson was a few weeks later summarily dismissed from his command, probably for political reasons.
		During the troubled months which succeeded that event Lawson, flying his flag as admiral of the Channel fleet, played a marked political role.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LA/LAWSON_SIR_JOHN.htm (299 words)

	John Lawson, History of Carolina
		Lawson and his associate Christopher von Graffenreid were captured while ascending the Neuse River, and were taken as hostages to the town of Catechna (near modern day Snow Hill).
		Like many Europeans, Lawson considered the indigenous inhabitants of America to be closer to nature than civilized Europeans, and believed, therefore, that they were a suitable subject for natural historical study.
		Anticipating arguments that would be reprised for decades to come, Lawson argued that Indian men were "not so vigorous and impatient in their Love as we [English] are," and were able to lie with their intended for months without engaging in sexual relations.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/exhibits/nature/lawson.htm (869 words)

	John Lawson - The Hieronymus Bosch of Beads
		John Lawson - The Hieronymus Bosch of Beads
		The show, which included two of Lawson’s coffins and garnered extensive media coverage, was made possible in part by a local program whereby grocery vouchers and useful appliances could be exchanged for guns, which were then machined and rendered harmless.
		Lawson dubbed the labor of love Mardi Gras Mambo, the title of an anthem made famous in the late 1950s by a band, The Hawkettes, led by keyboardest and songwriter Art Neville.
	www.mardigrasunmasked.com /mardigras/colorfulcharacters/johnlawson2.htm (1833 words)

	The UNC Press, A New Voyage to Carolina by John Lawson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		John Lawson's amazingly detailed yet lively book is easily one of the most valuable of the early histories of the Carolinas, and it is certainly one of the best travel accounts of the early eighteenth-century colonies.
		Lawson's observation is keen and thorough; his style direct and vivid.
		A number of DeBry woodcuts of John White's drawings of Indian life, sketches of the beasts of Carolina which appeared in the original 1709 edition, and Lawson's map contribute additional interest to this volume.
	uncpress.unc.edu /books/t-520.html (253 words)

	John Lawson
		John Lawson began service as president and CEO of the Association of Public Television Stations in April 2001.
		Under John’s leadership, APTS entered into a historic, voluntary carriage agreement with cable multiple system operators to ensure that local Public Television stations’ digital programming will be carried on cable systems serving the vast majority of the nation’s cable subscribers.
		John also has produced and hosted seven major satellite videoconferences on educational technology, reaching thousands of schools, libraries and colleges across the U.S. Previously, he worked at South Carolina ETV Network and headed an environmental foundation.
	www.apts.org /aboutAPTS/staff/Lawson_John.cfm (382 words)

	Pepys' Diary: Lawson, Sir John
		Sir John Lawson, the son of a poor man at Hull, entered the navy as a common sailor, rose to the rank of admiral, and distinguished himself during the Protectorate.
		He must not be confounded with another John Lawson, the Royalist, of Brough Hall, in Yorkshire, who was created a Baronet by Charles II, July 6th, 1665.
		John Udell: In my talk [at the OSCOM] I gave the example of Phil Gyford's The Diary of Samuel Pepys, and asked the rhetorical question: "What CMS environment would make it easier for Phil to achieve this effect?" If you......
	www.pepysdiary.com /p/110.php (240 words)

	1863 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		January 8 - Ground is broken in Sacramento, CA on the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States.
		July 26 - American Civil War: Morgan's Raid ends - At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.
		November 27 - American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio state prison and return safely to the South.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1863 (1539 words)

	John Lawson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Let John Lawson brief you on this transforming technology and position you and your group for the next great economic wave.
		John Lawson is a highly engaging speaker who can inspire your group and impart information that can change their lives.
		John is a very effective communicator, both in person and through the media.
	speakers.com /jlawson.html (555 words)

	Indian Trader John Lawson's Journal of Carolina, 1709
		When John Lawson visited the Carolina interior in the 1690s, he encountered the Congaree people, whose numbers and villages had been dramatically reduced by smallpox and other diseases.
		In 1660, Lawson, born into a London gentry family and aspiring to a career as a natural scientist, had set sail for the Carolina colony that was founded after the restoration of the British monarchy.
		Lawson’s keen eye for the native and non-native people, flora, and fauna of the region was evidenced in his journal A New Voyage to Carolina, published in 1709.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/6379 (1081 words)

	John Lawson - The Hieronymus Bosch of Beads
		Mixed in with aquatic scenes and various motifs inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s otherworldy triptych Garden of Delights, is Lawson’s depiction of a female drag queen named Myra (along with other colorful, real-world denizens of the Audubon’s notoriously randy bar scene) and a yellow Teletubby—Lah Lah, from the cult children’s TV show.
		Lawson, 38, is by no means the first artist to discover the aesthetic potential of Mardi Gras beads.
		A native of Birmingham, England, Lawson says his infatuation with beads began with a “big hallucinogenic Mardi Gras trip” in 1984, when he was an undergraduate studying landscape architecture at Louisiana State University, in Baton Rouge.
	www.mardigrasunmasked.com /mardigras/colorfulcharacters/johnlawson1.htm (761 words)

	Untitled Document
		Lawson could not shake off the magic dust or his current obsession with beadwork.
		Lawson considered the detriments of drinking and all the other forms of stimulation that kept him reeling from moment to moment, in ecstasy and at the edge of death.
		While at Audubon, Lawson refined the craft of assembling Mardi Gras beads: he found that the perfect glue was industrial strength and non toxic.
	www.lawsonworks.com /whereyat.htm (1925 words)

	"They Want to Muzzle Public Opinion": John Howard Lawson's Warning to the American Public
		Playwright and screenwriter John Howard Lawson, the president and organizing force of the Screen Writers’ Guild and acknowledged leader of the Communist Party in Hollywood in the late 1930s, became the first “unfriendly” witness subpoenaed to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) on October 27, 1947.
		Lawson was sent to Los Angeles by the Communist Party for the purpose of organizing Communist activities in Hollywood.
		Lawson, you will please be responsive to these questions and not continue to try to disrupt these hearings.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/6441 (2968 words)

	Lawson Family
		JOHN L. was born July 14, 1876 in Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee.
		LOIS LAWSON (JOHN L.) was born October 28, 1907 in Sanger, Cooke County, Texas, and died October 1, 1985 in Denison, Grayson County, Texas, age 77 years, 11 months, 3 days.
		JOHN RAY MORROW (LOIS LAWSON, JOHN L.) was born January 13, 1932 in Pottsboro, Grayson County, Texas, and died October 9, 1996 in Frisco, Collin County, Texas.
	www.nampoppy.com /Lawson.htm (4183 words)

	Will - John Lawson, 1723 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Item, he left to his eldest son James Lawson the crop of corn, house and lands after the death of his wife, and she consented that her part of half of the said house and lands should be left to the said eldest son after her decease.
		Item, he ordered and appointed his eldest son James Lawson aforesaid to pay three pounds ten shillings to his grandmother which was in mortgage in the said land, belonging to her.
		June 3, 1725: Richard Lawson, David Lawson and Bahy Lawson and Dan: Keneen have agreed to give John Lawson’s wife 20 shillings; whereupon, she has obliged herself to maintain the part of the children that come on their share during their minority.
	www.isle-of-man.com /manxnotebook/famhist/wills/1723_jl.htm (407 words)

	New Berne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Lawson was the author of an extremely valuable and fascinating book on Carolina and its native races, a book which one cannot read without loving the writer and mourning his melancholy fate.
		No man in the colony was better known by the Indians, who had frequently observed and carefully noted the fact that his appearance in the woods with his surveying instruments was apt to be followed by some fresh encroachment upon their lands.
		Lawson and Graffenried had advanced but little way into the Tuscarora wilderness when they were taken prisoners.
	www.adena.com /adena/usa/im/im011.htm (452 words)

	The Telegraph - News - 06/15/2005 - John Lawson Jr. HAMEL
		The Telegraph - News - 06/15/2005 - John Lawson Jr.
		John W. Lawson Jr., 44, died at 2:23 p.m.
		He was born Oct. 10, 1960, in Granite City to John W. Sr.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=14696582&;BRD=1719&;PAG=461&;dept_id=25269& (65 words)

	lawbar
		JOHN FIL THOMAS LAWSON of Bywell, against whom William de Akrigg and Margaret his wife claimed messuage, land etc. in Sedburgh in right of the said Margaret 47 Edward III 1374; was a witness to a deed of Robert de Insula dated 41 Edward III and a juror at Corbridge 3 Richard II.
		JOHN LAWSON of Bywell Co. Northumberland was witness to a deed of Walter de Tindall dated at Devilston 1374 and was Executor to his fathers’ will 8 Richard II 1386.
		WILLIAM LAWSON ESQUIRE of Cramlington Co. Northumberland seized in fee-tail-maleof half of the manor of Cramlington and Hamlet of Whitlaw held by the King in captite as the sixth part of one knights fee and also divers lands, etc. in Hertlaw, Morpeth, Bywell and other parts of the County of Northumberland in special fee-tail ob.
	www.rootsweb.com /~daisy/lawbar.htm (4499 words)

	John Lawson Digital Exhibit
		While it may be reasonable to expect a physician or naturalist to memorize a few hundred descriptions of useful plants, the task became unmanageable during the Age of Exploration when collectors, like John Lawson, began sending thousands of specimens back to Europe from all parts of the World.
		Nearly half a century after John Lawson’s death, Carl Linnaeus developed a system that greatly facilitated the process for classifying plants.
		There is evidence that James Petiver gave John Lawson a copy of Ray’s book when Lawson was in England in 1708.
	www.lib.ecu.edu /exhibits/lawson/nat3.html (1500 words)

	Alibris: John Lawson
		John Aubrey (1626-1697) had a story about everyone who was anyone in post-Elizabethan England, and obviously an eye for enduring talent, for this volume contains profiles of some of history's most important personalities, including Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Thomas More, and John Milton.
		The scheme of the work originally proposed was the investigation of the customs and superstitions of modern Greece in their possible bearing upon the life and thought of ancient Greece.
		Through years of teaching experience, John S. Lawson and John Erjavec have learned that it doesn't take much theoretical background before engineers can learn practical methods of data collections, analysis, and interpretation that will be useful in real life and on the job.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/John_Lawson (792 words)

	JOHN HOWARD LAWSON PAPERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The correspondence is arranged by subject and generally reflects the chronological progression of Lawson's life and career.
		Some of the letters were written to Sue Lawson and concern a reception for Lawson's book The Hidden Heritage, published while he was in prison in 1950.
		Included also is material relating to Lawson's arrest in Alabama, and to his philosophy concerning the social responsibilities of the writer.
	www.lib.siu.edu /spcol/inventory/SC016.html (577 words)

	John Howard Lawson
		In 1933 Lawson joined with Lester Cole and Samuel Ornitz to establish the Screen Writers Guild and was the organization's first president.
		Lawson appeared before the HUAC on 29th October, 1947, but like Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Albert Maltz, Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Samuel Ornitz and Ring Lardner Jr, he refused to answer any questions.
		The House of Un-American Activities Committee and the courts during appeals disagreed and all were found guilty of contempt of Congress and Lawson was sentenced to twelve months in Ashland Prison and fined $1,000.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAlawsonJH.htm (529 words)

	John Lawson Digital Exhibit
		One of the most interesting and yet enigmatic figures of colonial North Carolina history is John Lawson.
		Though he was an explorer, surveyor, land speculator, fur trader, naturalist, ethnographer, and writer, all that is really known about Lawson occurred during an eleven-year period, from when he arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1700 until his death at the hands of the Tuscarora Indians of North Carolina’s Neuse River region in 1711.
		John Lawson: Imagining a Life presents several of the documents through which Lawson’s contemporaries as well as later historians and writers have tried to decipher who John Lawson was.
	www.lib.ecu.edu /exhibits/lawson/index.html (158 words)

	John Lawson
		To the Revd John Crellin Vicar General The Humble Petition of Daniel Lace Daniel Corlett & Daniel Tear of the Parish of Andreas Sheweth That John Lawson of the parish of Andreas aforesd.
		John Lawson whereby your petrs might enter their Claims to recover their just demands against the Estate of the same Which Constrains your petrs to apply to your Reverence for relief in the premises.
		To which ends he hath given pledges in form of Law namely Daniel Corlett and Daniel Tear both of the parish of KK Anndreas, Patrick Kneale of Andreas the uncle and William Callow of Kk Maughold the Cousin of John, Ann and Esther Lawson children of the deceased are swon their Guardians and Supervisors.
	www3.telus.net /lawson/twill/1799_002.html (489 words)

	AllRefer.com - John Lawson (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		He came to the Carolinas in 1700 and within the next few years traveled approximately 1,000 mi (1,600 km) through its unexplored parts.
		His detailed, lively description of the flora, the fauna, and the Native Americans, A New Voyage to Carolina (1709), was several times reissued as the History of Carolina.
		Lawson was one of the incorporators (1705) of Bath, N.C. He was made surveyor general of North Carolina in 1708 and was one of the founders of New Bern, N.C. He was captured and put to death in the Tuscarora uprising of 1711.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/Lawson-J.html (199 words)

	John Lawson
		I leave to my son Thomas Lawson all my estate real and personal to him and his heirs for ever being a Lawson born by name, paying all debts and legacies arising out of the profits.
		I leave to my three daughters Joan Lawson, Dorothy and Mary One Hundred Pounds to be paid to them when they come to the age of 21 years at his usual house at Bowness to be demanded.
		I leave to my wife Mary Lawson the best bedding of bedclothes about the house and the best cow about the house forever, with the last land at Whittrigg with the pasture Close at Brown Moor enduring her life natural adjoining to Simon Smith meadow.
	wills4all.netfirms.com /john_lawson1.htm (344 words)

	The Scars Are Complimentary :: John Edward Lawson
		This collection of thirty poems showcases Lawson's ability to derange language in any form be it free verse, prose poetry, or senryu.
		Some would say Lawson's work is experimental, but the word 'twisted' comes to mind when reading this book.
		Lawson twists words like a dishwasher with an oddly shaped sponge, wringing deep meaning out of the soggy pillow.
	www.blindside.net /smallpress/read/Exclusives/TheScarsAreComplimentary (389 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)