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John Ledyard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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John Ledyard is also part of Dartmouth’s valued heritage. Historically, Fred Harris, Class of 1911, is known as the person who, after hearing students grumble about the cold Hanover winters, founded the Dartmouth Outing Club.
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John Ledyard was among the earliest residents of Long Island to live in distant places. His Journal of Cook's Voyage is considered a valuable contribution to the history of exploration. Thomas Jefferson wrote in his autobiography: In 1786, while at Paris, I became acquainted with John Ledyard.
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During the course of his short but extraordinary life, John Ledyard (1751–1789) came in contact with some of the most remarkable figures of his era: the British explorer Captain James Cook, American financier Robert Morris, Revolutionary naval commander John Paul Jones, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and others.
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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Ledyard, John. Ledyard, John. Information about Ledyard, John in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. ... Ledley, Robert Steven; Ledoux, Claude-Nicolas; Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre Auguste; Leduc; Leduc, Simon; Ledward, Gilbert; Ledyard; Ledyard, John; Ledyard, William; Lee; Lee Kuan Yew;
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A more recent published edition is John Ledyard’s Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage edited by James Kenneth Munford (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1963). Biographical information about Ledyard in this essay is taken from Sinclair H. Hitchings, “Introduction,” in the 1963 edition of John...
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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. He was born at their Groton, Ct. home in 1751, the first child after their runaway marriage at Setauket. ... John Ledyard The Travele...
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"It was a matter of doubt with many of us whether we should find any inhabitants here," wrote John Ledyard, "but we had scarcely entered the inlet before we saw that hardy, that intrepid, that glorious creature man approaching us from the shore." As the sailors drew closer, they also smelled land.
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John O. Ledyard: Optimal combinatoric auctions with single-minded bidders. ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce 2007: 237-242 ... Charles Polk, Robin Hanson, John O. Ledyard, Takashi Ishikida: The policy analysis market: an electronic commerce application of a combinatorial information market. ACM Conference on...
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