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.