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	JOHN LEDYARD - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN LEDYARD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		On his return (1778) Ledyard had to give up to the Admiralty his copious journals, but afterwards published, from memory, a meagre narrative of his experiences herein giving the only account of Cooks death by an eye-witness (Hartford, U.S.A., 1783).
		Ledyard left Dr Brown at Barnaul, went on to Tomsk and Irkutsk, visited Lake Baikal, and descended the Lena to Yakutsk (18th of September 1787).
		With Captain Joseph Billings, whom he had known on Cooks Resolution, he returned to Irkutsk, where he was arrested, deported to the Polish frontier, and banished from Russia for ever.
	97.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LE/LEDYARD_JOHN.htm (316 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Footsore and Fancy-Free (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		John Ledyard was born in Groton, Connecticut in 1751 and at 21, while enrolled at Dartmouth College, began to display the individuality that would mark his whole life.
		Thus when Ledyard arrived at Irkutsk, the company headquarters, its officials were alarmed; they thought Ledyard might discover the wealth of the resources of the area and the cruel manner in which the traders were treating the natives.
		Ledyard, who had had his share of misfortune, was stunned to find himself suddenly under the auspices of a society patronized by the King of England.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/198006/footsore.and.fancy-free.htm (1996 words)

	John Ledyard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Ledyard (1751-January 10, 1789) was an American explorer and adventurer.
		Ledyard was born in Groton, Connecticut to John and Abigail (Hempstead) Ledyard.
		He was befriended by Thomas Jefferson in Paris, who suggested that Ledyard explore the American continent by proceeding overland through Russia, crossing at the Bering Strait, and heading south through Alaska and then across the American West to Virginia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Ledyard (236 words)

	John Ledyard The Traveler
		John Ledyard the Traveler, of whom I have previously written, was the son of Captain John Ledyard and Abigail Hempstead Ledyard, of Southold lineage and birth.
		Ledyard signed up as a corporal of marines and sailed July 12, 1776, with Cook who on February 14, 1779 was killed by cannibals in the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands.
		Ledyard next planned to lead an expedition into America's unexplored Northwest but although Robert Morris, the signer" offered to outfit a ship, none was found available On June 1, 1784, the frustrated adventurer wrote his mother at Southold that he was about to sail for Europe and contemplated a voyage aound the world.
	www.longislandgenealogy.com /Ledyard/two.htm (1694 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Magazine
		Ledyard’s upbringing in the provincial democracy that was pre-Revolutionary New England, with an intellectual background colored by the European Enlightenment, no doubt encouraged his attitudes; yet to a great extent they must have been his by nature.
		Now Ledyard and his companions were about to have a new experience: contact with a Polynesian civilization which had never before known Europeans or even dreamed of their existence.∗∗It was once thought that a Spanish navigator had touched at Hawaii in the sixteenth century, but this is now generally discredited.
		John Ledyard’s life, after his voyage with Captain Cook, was short but fantastic; and in a sense his remaining eight years were a projection of that voyage.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1961/1/1961_1_60.shtml (6756 words)

	Connecticut Town Histories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		LEDYARD, formerly North Groton, the north part of Groton, was incorporated as a town in 1836.
		This town derived its name from Col. Ledyard, and his brother John Ledyard, the celebrated traveler, who was a native of Groton, which at that time, included this town within its limits.
		Ledyard engaged with enthusiasm in an enterprise which lie had afready projected for himself; and receiving from Sir Joseph a letter of introduction to one of the members of the committtee appointed to direct the business, and promote the object of the association, he went to him without delay.
	history.rays-place.com /ct/ledyard.htm (1477 words)

	Old Philadelphia Families newspaper article, 1912 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		John Strawbridge, the elder of the two sons, and the only one who was married, was probably born in Ireland, in 1749, accompanying his parents to Maryland in 1752, when two or three years of age.
		John must have been greatly esteemed, as, during the war, he was Sheriff of the county, and, as I have heard, a major of militia.
		John Strawbridge, the eldest of the five children of John and Hannah (nee Evans) Strawbridge, was born near Elkton, Md., April 25, 1780, and accompanied his parents upon their removal to Philadelphia, at the close of the Revolution.
	www.users.interport.net /a/s/aswhite/OLDPHLFM.htm (6881 words)

	Common-place: Go East, Young Man
		Ledyard was born in the British colony of Connecticut.
		John Ledyard was born in Groton, Connecticut, in 1751, the son of a sea captain and the grandson of one of the colony’s most prominent politicians and magistrates.
		Ledyard chose the former but after his unit was ordered to leave for Boston to help put down a colonial rebellion, he petitioned for a transfer, claiming that he could not raise arms against his American brethren.
	www.common-place.org /vol-05/no-02/gray/index.shtml (3314 words)

	John Ledyard’s Journal: Using Personal Narratives to Teach World History
		John Ledyard’s journal account of his Pacific Ocean voyage in the late 1770s is an excellent example of how Europeans perceived the indigenous peoples of “other” worlds as they were encountered through journeys of exploration.
		Ledyard was born in Connecticut in 1751, the son of a sea captain.
		Ledyard’s journal is especially suited because historical interactions between “European” and “indigenous” peoples remain at the very foundation of contemporary political relations.
	chnm.gmu.edu /worldhistorysources/d/147/whm.html (1334 words)

	LCC - John Ledyard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		John Ledyard was born in 1751 in Groton, Ct., the son of a sea captain.Ledyard enrolled at Dartmouth in 1772 at the age of 20 having traveled up the Ct. river valley to Hanover in a two-wheeled sulky drawn by a battered old horse.
		It wasn't long before Dartmouth president the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock singled John out from the student body to travel as a recruiter among the Indian tribes north of Hanover to encourage their youth to attend Dartmouth College.
		Ledyard's foray into the wilderness never produced many students for the college, but created in Ledyard a great interest in anthropology.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~lcc/about/johnledyard.php (346 words)

	John Ledyard, an American Traveller (I751—I 789)
		John Ledyard was among the earliest residents of Long Island to live in distant places.
		Thomas Jefferson supported John Ledyard in a dream to be the first recorded person to cross the American continent on foot.
		After vainly trying law and theology, Ledyard adopted a seaman’s life, and, coming to London, was engaged as corporal of marines by Captain Cook for his third voyage (1776).
	www.longislandgenealogy.com /Ledyard/MainLedyard.html (798 words)

	Maritime Fur Trade: The Americans In The Northwest
		But after Ledyard had outfitted himself at Banks' expense with a pistol, knife, hatchet, and some new clothes, he was vastly disappointed to learn that the ship was not permitted to sail.
		Ledyard's subsequent story is only remotely related to the history of the Pacific Northwest, but it serves to illustrate the complex interactions which make history.
		Ledyard evaded the inquiry and in the early summer was back in London at the door of his benefactor, Sir Joseph.
	www.3rd1000.com /history3/era3.htm (5380 words)

	The Dartmouth Review: John Ledyard's Insatiable Wanderlust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ledyard was in some ways the quintessential early American: restless, ingenious, fiercely independent, and insatiably longing to see what lay over the next hill or beyond the horizon; he had what Dartmouth classmate John Sherburne called a “high unbending spirit,” ill-prone to slight or boredom.
		Ledyard, though proud of America, traveled “under the common flag of humanity,” was an early advocate for the rights of the indigenous, and became one of the first professional explorers.
		We nevertheless may be grateful that John Ledyard walked the earth when he did—perhaps, if only in this regard, he was not ahead of his time, but exactly where he was supposed to be.
	www.dartreview.com /archives/2005/04/22/john_ledyards_insatiable_wanderlust.php (993 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The John Ledyard Scholarship Foundation was established in 1999 to honor college students who have dropped out at least once, and have travelled more than 2000 miles from home at least thrice in their lifetime.
		John Ledyard was born and raised in Groton Connecticut a few years ago.
		A college dropout, Ledyard has travelled with Captain Cook, was friends with both Thomas Jefferson and Catherine the Great, and has had buildings, trains and outhouses named after him on 4 continents.
	www.angelfire.com /wi/kokopeli/ledyard.html (192 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: BOOKENDS: Around the World In 286 Pages
		John Ledyard brings new meaning to the word “trekkie.” Like modern-day “Star Trek” devotees, Ledyard had an obsession with the final frontier and exploration.
		Ledyard was born in 1751 to a pair of first cousins who had to run away from their homes in Groton, Conn., to get married.
		Ledyard decided to walk through both Europe and Asia, and, as if that were not enough, traverse the still-undiscovered western half of North America.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=507749 (1252 words)

	James Zug \| Official Web Site \| Books by James Zug > AMERICAN TRAVELER
		Ledyard (1751-1789) was a native of Groton, Connecticut.
		During the epic, four-year expedition, Ledyard got a tattoo in Tahiti, venereal disease in Tonga, attempted to climb Mauna Loa in Hawaii and made a five-day solo hiking and kayaking tour of the Aleutians.
		Ledyard concocted the plan of walking around the world outfitted with two dogs for company, an axe to cut firewood and a peace pipe with which to make friends.
	home.earthlink.net /~jzug/american_traveler.html (464 words)

	quillnews: The Yankee who would not stay still: John Ledyard persuaded Americans to trade with China.
		Ledyard was the only American on Captain James Cook’s final voyage and the experience convinced the American wanderer that his country’s future was in Asia.
		Ledyard was born in Groton, Conn. in 1751.
		Ledyard found himself in England in 1776 and joined the crew of Captain James Cook as a corporal of marines, shipping out with the world famous explorer on Cook’s third voyage to the Pacific, where previous voyages had already led British to learn about and eventually settle Australia and New Zealand.
	www.quillnews.com /main/2005/04/the_yankee_who_.html (1362 words)

	The Johns Hopkins Gazette: March 19, 2001
		Connecticut-born John Ledyard had only one book published in his lifetime, but one could say he made the most of his opportunity.
		Ledyard went on to chronicle his eyewitness account of this excursion in an authoritative work titled A Journal Of Captain Cook's Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean and In Quest of a North-West Passage.
		Ledyard, who died in Egypt in 1789 while planning a hike through Africa, is the first port of call for Larzer Ziff, a research professor in the English Department of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, in his new book, Return Passages: Great American Travel Writing, 1780-1910 (Yale University Press; $29.95).
	www.jhu.edu /~gazette/2001/mar1901/19larzer.html (1322 words)

	CCS - Book Reviews Part 10
		John Robson compares the Pacific voyages of Cook and Bougainville, in particular the charts produced, concluding that "Bougainville left the map of the Pacific much as he had found it Cook, on the other hand, drew the map of the Pacific as we know it today".
		John Ledyard was born in Groton, Connecticut in November 1751.
		Ledyard later writes about how, when Cook’s head was returned by the Indians after his death, "they had cut off all the Hair" and compares it to the actions of the "antient Scythians" and the "Aborigines of America".
	www.captaincooksociety.com /ccsu2110.htm (6970 words)

	Working Dogs Book Store - American Traveler: The Life and Adventures of John Ledyard, the Man Who Dreamed of Walking ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		John Ledyard has been mostly forgotten today, but this late eighteenth century New England Yankee dreamed of exporing an as-yet largely unknown world and, before his death while still in his thirties, he had accomplished part of that dream.
		Ledyard, a correspondent of Thomas Jefferson, was very much cast in the mold of an explorer and natural philosopher at the end of the Age of Reason.
		Zug does a wonderful job describing Ledyard's relationships with movers and shakers of the late 18th century (particularly Jefferson), as well as his role as a catalyst behind the eventual expansion of American power.
	www.workingdogs.com /bookstore/us/product/0465094058.htm (473 words)

	James Zug \| Official Web Site \| Books by James Zug: AMERICAN TRAVELER: Reviews
		John Ledyard was born in 1751 in Connecticut, died in Cairo, and traveled almost everywhere else imaginable in the intervening thirty-seven years.
		The character that emerges is a complicated one: Ledyard was sometimes manic and sometiems overwhelmed by despair; he was a rough explorer, but he loved clothes (in all his letters he described his wardrobe before saying anything about his itinerary or adventures).
		And yet it's probably fair to say that not too many people have ever heard of John Ledyard, the son of a sea captain who was born in Connecticut in 1751 and died along the Nile in 1789.
	home.earthlink.net /~jzug/at_reviews.html (1867 words)

	LEE - LoveToKnow Article on LEE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In 1855 he was appointed a.s lieut.-colonel to the 2nd Cavalry, commanded by Colonel Sidney Johnston, with whom he served against the Indians of the Texas border.
		In 1859, while at Arlington on leave, he was summoned to command the United States troops sent to deal with the John Brown raid on Harper's Ferry.
		In March 1861 he was made colonel of the ist U.S. Cavalry; but his career in the old army ended with the secession of Virginia in the following month.
	www.87.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LE/LEE.htm (1189 words)

	John Ledyard
		John Ledyard is also part of Dartmouth’s valued heritage.
		Today it is common for students to take a term of leave away from the campus, but Eleazer Wheelock, in the summer of 1772, sent young Ledyard northward to spend four months near Canada living among the Iroquois of the Six Nations hoping to encourage their youth to enroll at Dartmouth.
		The Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts was established in the early 1960s, but John Ledyard arrived as a freshman in April of 1772 in a broken down two wheel sulky with a trunk full of bolts of velvet and calico cloth from which he made costumes for theatrical exhibitions which he organized and led.
	dartmouth.edu /~doc/shrines/johnledyard?DOC=4ae577166a7a2f0d28da65ec... (775 words)

	John Ledyard - TheBestLinks.com - France, Northwest Passage, Siberia, United States, ...
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		John Ledyard (1751-1789) was an American explorer and adventurer.
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	About DCoW: Webster Award
		One of the first student petitions -if not the first - at the college came in 1772 and was signed by John Ledyard, James Hutchinson, and Samuel Stebbins.
		It was John Ledyard who perhaps started the Dartmouth connection with the outdoors, although he never really found his place at Dartmouth.
		While Dartmouth has certainly changed since the days of John Ledyard and Daniel Webster, certain key values remain at the core of what this College represents.
	www.dartmouth.org /clubs/washdc/webster/2000/remarks_wright.html (1072 words)

	WNYC - Reading Room: American Traveler
		At that moment, John Ledyard became the first American citizen to touch the west coast of North America.
		Known as Ledyard the Traveler, John Ledyard inaugurated a tradition of Americans roaming the world's wild, unmapped regions.
		This expedition failed after fifteen months of traveling when Catherine the Great had him arrested in eastern Siberia, but Ledyard's trip across Russia was historic: it was one of the three failed attempts that preceded the Lewis and Clark expedition and one of the first known attempts by a person to walk around the world.
	www.wnyc.org /books/46752 (1773 words)

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		He was a native of New London County, Ct., a nephew of Col. William Ledyard, the heroic martyr of Fort Griswold, and the cousin of John Ledyard, the celebrated traveller, whose biography was written by Jared Sparks.
		I wept over "Paul and Virginia," and laughed over "John Gilpin," the scene of whose memorable ride I have since visited at the "Bell of Edmonton," During the first quarter of the nineteenth century drunkenness was fearfully prevalent in America; and the drinking customs wrought their sad havoc in every circle of society.
		John McLean, a judge of the United States Supreme Court and a prominent man in the Methodist Church, was in the congregation, and the next day I called at the United States Hotel to pay my respects to him.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/2/5/4/12549/12549-8.txt (20241 words)

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