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Sir Alexander Cumming was born in Edinburgh on December 18, 1691. He was the son of Sir Alexander Cuming, a member of Parliament, and Elizabeth (Swinton) Cuming.
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Excerpt from Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country: Through the States of Ohio and Kentucky; A Voyage Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and a Trip Through the Mississippi Territory and Part of West Florida At this point Cuming's tour is concluded. In orda to give completeness to the work, however, the first editor added thejoumalofavoyagetakenin 1799 byagentle man of accurate observation, a passenger in a New Orleans boat. From just above Bayou Pierre, this anonymous author departed on the ninth of February for New Orleans, where he arrived on the twenty-third of the same month. Embarking therefrom March 12, he reached Philadelphia after a month's voyage via Havana and the Atlantic shore. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Title: Sketches of a tour to the western country through the states of Ohio and Kentucky : a voyage down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and a trip through the Mississippi Territory and part of West Florida : commenced at Philadelphia in the winter of 1807 and concluded in 1809. Author: Fortescue Cuming Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ SourceLibrary: Huntington Library DocumentID: SABCP04347700 CollectionID: CTRG03-B397 PublicationDate: 18100101 SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America Notes: Collation: 504 p. ; 18 cm
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Sir Alexander Cumming was born in Edinburgh on December 18, 1691. He was the son of Sir Alexander Cuming, a member of Parliament, and Elizabeth (Swinton) Cuming.
His voyage was not, as has been asserted, an official mission.
During the winter of 1729-30 he busied himself with a banking scheme to reform the colonial currency: this project he continued to promote, unsuccessfully, after his return to England. On the eve of his departure he decided to make a rapid excursion of nearly a thousand miles by rough trading- paths into the back-country and the mountains.
A member of the Royal Society, he set out as a scientific explorer rather than as a political agent, searching for minerals, herbs, and the “natural curiosities” of the land.
But another purpose took shape in his erratic mind as he listened to the frontiersmen’s accounts of French intrigues and widespread disaffection among the Cherokee Indians, the corner-stone of British alliances and empire in the South.
At Keovvee in the Lower Towns, Sir Alexander’s enterprise, mad or inspired, was first revealed. There he dramatically appeared, fully armed, among the Indians in the town house—a gross breach of Indian decorum, —determined to overawe the Cherokee, single-handed if need be, and force them to submit to the British interest.
At his demand, or by the persuasions of the startled traders, the Indians were induced to join in drinking the health of George II on bended knee! This strange rite Cuming interpreted as an acknowledgment of British sovereignty. He continued his hasty progress as far as the remotest Cherokee towns, everywhere repeating his fantastic ceremony.
At a great congress of the tribe, at Nequasse, Moytoy of Tellico, an Anglophile chief, was crowned “Emperor” of the Cherokee; and to the baronet the Indians resigned the “crown of Tennessee” and other trophies “as an Emblem of their all owning His Majesty King George’s Sovereignty over them, at the Desire of Sir Alexander Cuming, in whom an absolute unlimited Power was placed. ”
Evidently the flighty Scot had appealed to the dramatic instincts of the Indian, to achieve a tour de force of wilderness diplomacy at a crucial moment. The council further agreed that an Indian embassy should return with him to England. There Cuming’s seven proteges furnished the sensation of the season. They were received at court, shown the sights of the town, feasted and entertained, and everywhere they became objects of popular curiosity. But Newcastle and the Board of Trade turned deaf ears to Cuming’s memorials. He sought in vain to have his powers as overlord confirmed for three years, promising to live among the Indians and promote the royal service.
He was even ignored in the negotiation of the important treaty by which the Board turned this fortuitous incident to imperial advantage, and put the Cherokee upon a footing similar to the Iroquois. But apparently the Indians refused their full assent until Cuming’s approval was given.
The later career of the selfvaunted “King of the Cherokees” was miserable enough. An alchemist, a visionary promoter, from 1737 to 1765 he was confined as a debtor to the limits of the Fleet.
He died, a poor brother of Charterhouse, in 1775.
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