usually cured adapted to northern climates and designed for the use of the landholders of Great Britain. London, 1779 - "Written during the American War of Independence (1775–1783) or, as Carver put it, 'the present unhappy dissentions,' when trade was disrupted. This treatise described the methods required to grow tobacco in Britain. Carver argues for repealing two acts of parliament from the reign of Charles II, which prohibited the cultivation of tobacco in England. Carver felt that the landowner would profit, revenue could be restored to the treasury by means of a duty on the plants, and smokers would be more than satisfied with the 'powerful aromatic' tobacco produced in a northern climate." Representation in other media A 2005 episode of the Discovery Channel series A Haunting claims that the ghost of Carver upset residents of Summerwind, a former estate on the coast of West Bay Lake in Wisconsin. Papers Jonathan Carver's papers are available for research use at the Minnesota Historical Society. They include photostatic copies of a journal of Carver's expedition to the Mississippi River (1766–1767), a Survey journal, and a Dictionary of the Naudowessee language, and typed transcripts of these documents; copies of surveys and deeds to the Carver land grant of 1767, which encompassed some four million acres in present-day western Wisconsin; copies of letters about the French and Indian War (1759) and James Tute's gifts to the Indians (1768); copies of two petitions to the British government (1769–1770) asking that Carver be reimbursed for his expedition to the Mississippi; and a copy of a recommendation by the British government on this request. Other papers relating to Jonathan Carver and the Carver land grant are also available. MHS Library Catalog: Jonathan Carver and related papers] References Further reading External links 1710 births 1780 deaths People of colonial Massachusetts Explorers of North America People of colonial Connecticut Explorers of the United States People from Weymouth, Massachusetts People from Canterbury, Connecticut