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JONATHAN CARVER (c. 1725-1780)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 437 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JONATHAN See also:CARVER (c. 1725-1780)  , See also:American traveller, was See also:born probably in See also:Canterbury, See also:Connecticut . The date usually given for his See also:birth, 1932, is now considered too See also:late, since he was apparently married in 1746 . In See also:early See also:life he followed the See also:trade of a shoemaker and subsequently served with the provincial forces in the See also:French and See also:Indian See also:wars . According to his " See also:Journal " he conceived the See also:idea, after the See also:peace of 1763, of exploring See also:Great See also:Britain's newly acquired territory in the See also:north-See also:west . He is said to have set out in 1766, journeyed west-See also:ward by way of the Straits of Mackinac and the See also:Fox and See also:Wisconsin See also:rivers to the See also:Mississippi, viewed the Falls of St See also:Anthony, lived for some See also:time among the See also:Indians, and received from them a See also:grant of Roo sq. m. of territory between the Mississippi and St Croix rivers . Returning See also:east in 1768 by way of the north See also:shore of See also:Lake See also:Superior he proceeded in 1769 to See also:England, where he presented a See also:letter of introduction to See also:Benjamin See also:Franklin, and made vain efforts to See also:interest the See also:board of trade in his investigations . In 1778 there was published in See also:London what purported to be his own narrative of his explorations under the See also:title of Travels through the Interior Parts of North See also:America in the Years 1766, 1767 and 2768 . It had an immediate success, was translated into French, See also:German and Dutch, and was See also:long generally accepted as a truthful narrative of his travels and observations, and as one of the highest authorities on the See also:manners, customs and See also:language of the Indians of the See also:northern Mississippi valley . See also:Carver died in London on the 31st of See also:January 1780, having married a second time in England although his first wife was still living in America . Soon after his See also:death a new edition of the Travels was brought out by the well-known Quaker physician and author, Dr See also:John Coakley Lettsom (1744-1815), who " edited " the See also:work and furnished a See also:biographical introduction .

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