Jonathan Carver
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1710 – 1780
Who was Jonathan Carver?
Jonathan Carver was a colonial Massachusetts explorer and writer. He was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts and then moved with his family to Canterbury, Connecticut. He later married Abigail Robbins and became a shoemaker. He is believed to have had seven children.
In 1755 Carver joined the Massachusetts colonial militia at the start of the French and Indian War. In 1757, Carver a friend of Robert Rogers, enlisted with Burke's Rangers. Burke's Rangers would in 1758 become a part of Rogers' Rangers. During the war he studied surveying and mapping techniques. He was successful in the military and eventually became captain of a Massachusetts regiment in 1761. Two years later he quit the army with a determination to explore the new territories acquired by the British as a result of the war.
Initially Carver was unable to find a sponsor for his proposed explorations but in 1766, Robert Rogers contracted Carver to lead an expedition to find a western water route to the Pacific Ocean, the Northwest Passage. There was a great incentive to discover this route. The king and Parliament had promised a vast prize in gold for any such discovery.
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- Born
- Apr 13, 1710
Weymouth - Nationality
- United States of America
- Lived in
- Connecticut
- Died
- Jan 31, 1780
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on July 23, 2013
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