Ledyard, John

Ledyard, John

▪ American explorer
born 1751, Groton, Conn. [U.S.]
died Jan. 10, 1789, Cairo, Egypt

      American adventurer and explorer who accompanied Captain James Cook on his voyage to find a Northwest Passage to the Orient (1776–79).

      After trying the life of a missionary among the North American Indians, Ledyard shipped out as a common seaman (1774). In the course of his voyage with Cook, Ledyard developed what was to become a lifelong interest in establishing a lucrative fur trade with China. After numerous efforts to secure financial support for his proposals proved futile, Ledyard conceived the daring scheme of attracting interest in the commercial possibilities of the Pacific Northwest by walking eastward across Russia (including Siberia), crossing the Bering Strait, and then continuing on foot across the North American continent. He set out from St. Petersburg in September 1787 and by the following February had gotten as far as Irkutsk, where he was arrested and ordered out of the country. Ledyard's last adventure was an expedition into Africa in search of the source of the Niger River, but he got no farther than Cairo before he died.

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