TO THE WANTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN, PRESERVING HIS ESTATE AND REPUTATION
WITH THE SAME EXACTNESS AND CONCERN AS HE DOES HIS OWN: ALL SEEMING TO SHARE
IN THE MISFORTUNES, AND REJOICE AT THE ADVANCE AND RISE OF THEIR BRETHREN."
Lawson fitly concludes his account of the settlers upon the Santee,
by describing them as "a very kind, loving, and affable people" --
a character which it has been the happy solicitude of their descendants
to maintain to the present day.***

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* Lawson's "Journal of a Thousand Miles' Travel among the Indians,
from South to North Carolina", is a work equally rare and interesting.
This unfortunate man fell a victim to his official duties.
He was confounded, by the savages, with the government which he represented,
and sacrificed to their fury, under the charge of depriving them,
by his surveys, of their land. He was made captive
with the Baron de Graffenreid. The latter escaped,
but Lawson was subjected to the fire-torture.
** "The inhabitants [of St. James, otherwise French Santee]
petitioned the Assembly, in 1706, to have their settlement made a parish;
and, at the same time, expressed their desire of being united
to the Church of England, whose doctrines and discipline
they professed highly to esteem. The Assembly passed an act,
April 9, 1706, to erect the French settlement of Santee into a parish."
-- `Dalcho's Historical Account', ch. 9, p. 295.
*** See "A new Voyage to Carolina, containing the exact description and
natural history of that country, &c.; and a journey of a thousand miles,
travelled through several nations of Indians. By John Lawson, Gent.,
Surveyor-General of North Carolina. London, 1709."
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