biography
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1709–c.83)
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| biography:
| Pioneer and trader, born in Co Antrim, NE Northern Ireland, UK. He was in South Carolina by 1735 and traded with the Catawba, Cherokee, and Choctaw Indians. His book, In The History of the American Indians (1775), argued that the Indians were descended from the ancient Hebrew tribes. |
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