Note. 



for there is hardly a description of a plant or animal which 

 does not have some medical use attached to it. His work 

 is fuller, more systematic, and seems more like that of a 

 student; Lawson's work seems more like that of a traveler 

 and observer. There is, besides, much more relating to the 

 social condition of the Colony in Brickell, who has a sec- 

 tion on 'The religion, houses, raiment, diet, liquors, firing, 

 diversions, commodities, languages, diseases, curiosities, cat- 

 tle, etc.,' while Lawson sticks close to the natural, economic, 

 and Indian history of the Province." 



Of Dr. Brickell little is known. Major John W. Moore 

 says that Dr. John Brickell, ''the naturalist, physician, and 

 historian," and his brother, the Eev. Matthias Brickell, came 

 with Governor Burrington to Carolina. Dr. Brickell re- 

 mained at Edenton, while his brother became the first rector 

 of St. Johns in Bertie County, ^Svhich for years was the 

 only house of worship west of the Chowan Biver."^ 



Dr. Brickell appears as a member of the grand jury of 

 the whole Province, in 1731, and signed a congratulatory 

 address^ to the King upon the purchase of the Colony by the 

 Crown from the Lords Proprietors. 



While in J^orth Carolina, Dr. Brickell probably rendered 

 ^the Colony some service in a friendly mission to the Chero- 

 te Indians, and penetrated far into the territory now in- 

 cli^d in the State of Tennessee. His description of this 

 iouri.i^' is most interesting, and though overdrawn, is a dis- 

 tinct cori^f'^i^^i<^^^ ^o our history of the habits of the Xorth 

 Carolina h\iji^i«- We have no record of Dr. l^rickell's 

 career after h\h'^' \orth Carolina. 



The Kev. .althias Brickell is said to have luvn a man 

 of |)ow('r aii<l illnciicc in the ('oloiiy, and his son. Col. Mat- 

 thias Bri«'k<'ll, \vr a soldiei- in the devolution. 



•MoonVs History of N. t Vol. I. page 4'.). 

 »Col. Ui'C. Vol. ill. 1)1). i:v':i5. 



