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DUNBAR, Sir William, pioneer, born in Scotland, about 1740; died in Natchez, Miss., in 1810. He was educated at Glasgow and London, where his love for mathematics and astronomy gained him the friendship of Sir William Herschel. He came to Philadelphia for his health and in charge of a mercantile venture in 1771, afterward went to Pittsburgh, and in 1773 formed a partnership with John Ross, a Scottish merchant of Philadelphia, for the purpose of opening a plantation in the British province of West Florida. He settled near Baton Rouge, La., and, after many fluctuations of fortune, finally removed to Natchez, where he cultivated a plantation called the "Forest." He held important trusts under the Federal government, was a correspondent of Thomas Jefferson, Herschel, and Rittenhouse, and contributed numerous valuable papers to the transactions of the American philosophical society of Philadelphia, of which he was a member.
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