John Lawson Legacy Days
You are invited by Allen Barwick and Mary Grace Bright and all of the other John Lawson Friends to join them in Grifton on November 11-12, 2011 for the JOHN LAWSON LEGACY DAYS.
North Carolina’s first Surveyor General, Lawson identified the border between North Carolina and Virginia, work later continued by William Byrd. In 1711, Lawson and two companions set out to discover the source of the Neuse River. On their way, Tuscarora Indians ambushed the party and led them as captives to Catechna, where Lawson, perhaps the strongest Indian advocate among the colonists, was executed on September 20, 1711.
For more information: a_barwick@bellsouth.net; (919)872-7592; or “John Lawson Days” on Facebook. View the Brochure by clicking on the link below: