An English explorer, naturalist, surveyor, and writer. He traveled to Carolina in 1700 and extensively explored the interior of the colony. He detailedly recorded indigenous peoples, flora and fauna, and geography, publishing "A New Voyage to Carolina" in 1709. He was involved in the founding of Bath and New Bern, and served as Surveyor General of the Carolina colony. In 1711, he was captured and killed by the Tuscarora people, which became one of the direct triggers of the Tuscarora War.

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