biography
pronunciation:
[duhnbah(r)]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1749–1810)
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| biography:
| Planter and scientist, born near Elgin, Moray, NE Scotland, UK. He moved to West Florida in 1773, and built a plantation near Natchez, MI. A correspondent of Thomas Jefferson, and the first surveyor-general of his area, he undertook explorations of the Quachita and Red R areas in present-day Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana (1804–5). |
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