death_place death_date birth_place other_names nationality birth_date spouse article_title name occupation
west indies march 19 , 1621 england bohune , boone english between 1575 and 1585 alice barnes lawrence bohun
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lawrence bohun

lawrence bohun -lrb- born between 1575 and 1585 , died march 19 , 1621 -rrb- was an english physician and member of the virginia governor 's council .
his surname is occasionally spelled `` bohune '' or `` boone '' and he is known for experimenting with some of virginia 's indigenous plants and minerals .
he is sometimes credited with being the first experimental scientist in jamestown and one of its first physicians .
not much is known about bohun 's early life , but it is estimated that he was born in england between 1575 and 1585 and that he received his education at the university of leyden in the netherlands .
bohun had a reputation for being an excellent physician and was hired to perform as the personal physician for thomas west , twelfth baron de la warr , who was the first governor of virginia appointed by the virginia company of london .
he arrived in virginia on june 10 , 1610 , which enabled him to help with colonists that had survived the starving time of that prior winter .
while living in virginia bohun also worked on creating wine .
when de la warr left virginia the following year in order to recuperate from a bout of scurvy , bohun accompanied him on the trip .
they eventually ended in england , where bohun practiced medicine and married alice barnes .
during this time bohun was active with the virginia company , as he was listed as a sharecropper in their third charter and was approved for two grants for virginia land .
bohun was interested in seeing if silkworms could be cultivated in virginia , which was evidently unsuccessful as records from the virginia company stated that he had a project -lrb- presumably the silkworms -rrb- that `` promised much benefitt but in the end came to nothinge . ''
bohun was appointed the physician general of the virginia colony in 1620 and was also appointed to the governor 's council , but he would never make it to virginia to carry out his responsibilities .
in 1621 , while stopping in the west indies for supplies , bohun 's ship was attacked by spanish warships and he was one of several people that died on march 19 , 1621 .
