Norwich bulletin., 1920-07-13
DIR. WILLIAM BROWNING WRITES OF JONATHAN CARVER. EXPLORER

OF JONATHAN CARVER. EXPLORER
 pr. William Browning, of Brooklyn, N. r.. who has been visiting his sister, Miss Sarah P. Browning, of The Osgood, Norwich, has contributed to the wiscon- sin Magazine of History carefully pre- pared paper on The Early History of Jonathan Carver. the explorer.
 DF. Browning. who was a Norwich Free Academy student in two classes be- fore entering Sheffield, Yale. later study ing in German universities. is professor of neurology in the Long Island Medical college. He is one of the ceuntrys en- ineat specialists in his chosen field and has served as president of the American Association of Medical Librarians. His special interest in Carver grew out of a stury of physicians who had distinguish ed themselves as explorers, published re- gently in the New York Medical Record MT. Browning. who has the title of Ph. B.. as well as M D., tells more about the career of Carver in a pam. phlet entitled. Some of Our Medical Ex- pioFers and AdFentureFs. Jonathan Car yer, who. Dr. Browning veriiies, was born in~Weymouth, Mass, April 18th, l776. is frequently given as a native of Connecticut, for the reason that his father, Ensign David Carver immigrated to Canterbury, Conn, prior to TIT Facts | records are learnedly cited by Dr. Brown ing to show the prominence of the Car yer family in early Canterbury histoy l Jehnathan Carver studied medicine l probably with Dr. Elisha Perkins, son of the famed physician of Lisbon, Dr. Jo- tseph Perkins. Carver was captain in the l campaigns of the French and Indian wal 1 0757-63). Then he undertook to ex- plore the vast territory claimed by Grea1 I n arfh o~7I fA E~I
 he says. "a North West passage, or 9 communication between Hudsons Bay l and the Pacific Ocean"
 He left Boston in 1T66, aehed Mack 1 fnaw, the remetest English post anG went on beyond the Mississippi. In 17si
 he explored the north shore of Lake~Su
 perior. He visited twelve Indian tribes
 lived as native, and learned theil | language. He returned to Boston 1T l7ss. having spent two years and fv, months. travelling 1000 miles.
 Failing to secure in Boston a publshe for his narrative of his explorations h,
 went to England in 176s. finally dyin; in destitution in London. He had arrang | ed for later expedition, but was stop ped, by the Revolution
 Although Carver had all the charact lsties of the true explorer promised suf, plies and backing failed him, the countr, l is possible that. as the son of a Brit 1 ish official he was too pro-English t
 win popular favor. Consequently Iii dream of thus reaching the Pacific wa not realized. that project having to wal 1 until the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-6
 CarveF's mother was Halaah Dyer Through the Interior Parts of Nort
 America in the Years 175e, '1767. an
 176S, alsg Treaties on the Culture of tn Tobacco Plant.
 His Travels went through various edi tions in England and America, besides be ing translated into French and Ger man. His book is still one of the mos popular volumes of early western trave He is our one early authority on Min
 nesota and the sources and upper bssi
 of the Mississippi river. Much of thi
 region was not traversed by an explor
 CT until Longs second trip, in 1853.
 Carmer's mother was Hannah Dyel
 sister of famous Col. John Dye- q 692
 177e). In the town records of Canter
 bury it is shown that the two daughter
 were born there. in 1747 and 174S re spectively, to Jonathan and Abigail Car
 yer, their names being Mary and Abigail These facts Dr. Browning brings ou l Interestingly in the Wisconsin NIaga . zine of History. the quarterly volum
 having as a. frontispiece a portrait (
 Jonathan Carver. from the Londo | Q7S1) editio nof Caryer's Travels.