Tuscarora capture and kill John Lawson

The execution of John Lawson led to the outbreak of the Tuscarora War, which was an anti colonial war fought against English settler encrouchment on their lands in the Carolinas. Additionally, the war was fought against the increased slave trade in the Carolinas which at the time was ethnically mostly Indigenous slaves not African slaves. The Tuscarora correctly identified John Lawson as being particularly responsible for settler encrouchment on their lands due to a book he had published in 1709 (A New Voyage To Carolina) which became a best seller in England and caused many settlers to choose the area that would become North Carolina for settlement. He also founded New Bern, which was in Tuscarora territory. On his return to Carolina Territory from England he was captured by Tuscarora warriors on the Neuse river and killed.