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Early life and education. John Lawson was born in England. Little is known definitively about his early life. He appears to have been the only son of Dr. John Lawson (1632–c. 1690) and Isabella Love (c. 1643–c. 1680). [1] Both were from London.
The group crossed the Uwharrie River on February 5, and came to the village of Keyauwee Town. Three days later most of Lawson’s party decided to travel straight to Virginia from Keyauwee Town. Lawson and a companion, however, resolved to continue their trek through Carolina.
Lawson was a grandnephew of Vice-Admiral Sir John Lawson of Scarborough, Yorkshire. The family owned estates in the vicinity of Kingston-on-Hull, Yorkshire, where it is likely young Lawson first attended Anglican schools, followed by lectures at Gresham College near the family's London residence.
A native Londoner, John Lawson (d. 1711), sailed to South Carolina, in August, 1700, to assume an appointment as Surveyor-General of North Carolina. Although his origins remain obscure, he appears to have had a solid scientific education and was sufficiently elevated socially to append "gent."
His hometown of London was a world center of trade and learning. John’s great-uncle had been a vice admiral in the English navy. His father was a prosperous doctor with social connections among leading scientists, ships’ physicians, and explorers, people that he often invited to his home.
Lawson himself -- we believe. The portrait was purchased in England by a professor at East Carolina University on the possibility of its being Lawson. On one hand, the envelope he's holding says "Sir John Lawson," and Lawson never was knighted.
The Gentlemen seated in the Country, are very courteous, live very nobly in their Houses, and give very genteel Entertainment to all Strangers and others, that come to visit them.
