Background
Fortescue Cuming was born at Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland.
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Cuming's Tour to the Western Country: 1807-1809 (Travel in America)
( A man travels through the Mid-West and deep South follo...)
A man travels through the Mid-West and deep South following what seems to be a convoluted route.
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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 ... and Part of West Florida (Classic Reprint)
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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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FORTESCUE CUMING
Edit ProfileEducation
He studied medicine.
Career
He lived successively in New York, Trinidad, and Westchester, finally establishing a home at Cedar Hill, just outside of New Haven, in 1792.
There are portraits of himself and his wife by St. Memin, dated 1797.
In 1806 he was again in England, where he purchased lands in Ohio. These were the occasion of the trip taken in 1807 - 09 down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and through Louisiana and the Floridas, which he described in his Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country, published at Pittsburgh in 1810.
This volume, which is an accurate and detailed record of social and political conditions in the backwoods area, was reprinted in 1904 as Volume IV of Early Western Travels, edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites.
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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 ... and Part of West Florida (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country: T...)
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Cuming's Tour to the Western Country: 1807-1809 (Travel in America)
( A man travels through the Mid-West and deep South follo...)
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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 ... and Part of West Florida (Classic Reprint)
Connections
After studying medicine, and traveling in France, Switzerland, and Italy, he came to New York, where, in 1784, he married Phoebe, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Thomas Harisson, by whom he had seven children. His family life seems not to have been happy. Cuming seems not to have returned to his wife, who was buried in New Haven in 1821.
He married a Miss Butler, and died in Vermilionville, Louisiana, in 1828.
