Person Cuming; Sir; Alexander (c 1690 - 1775) Cuming Alexander Sir Cumming c 1690 - 1775 British Male Edinburgh 18 December 1691 1691 Charterhouse hospital, London 20 August 1775 1775 Burial: The church of East Barnet, Hertfordshire

Education: Middle Temple (admitted 1716) Career: Captain in the Earl of Mar's Regiment of Foot (1703-1713); called to the Scottish Bar (1714); in the secret service of the Crown (1718-1721); rumoured to have been a Captain in the Russian Army; went to America to visit the Cherokee Mountains because of a dream of his wife's (1729); made a Chief of the Cherokee Nation (1730); returned to England with five Cherokee chiefs, whom he presented to George II (1730); signed a peace treaty with the Cherokees on behalf of the British nation; Captain of an Independent Company in Jamaica (1734); accused of defrauding settlers while in South Carolina, he lost all his money and was imprisoned for debt in the Fleet Prison (1737-1765); his plans for settling 300,000 Jewish families in the Cherokee Mountains, for paying off the National Debt and for relieving the American colonies of taxation came to nothing; a Poor Brother of the Charterhouse (1766-death) Son of Sir Alexander Cuming, Bart, of Culter, Aberdeenshire, and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Alexander Swinton; succeeded his father as 2nd Bart; married Amy, daughter of Lancelot Whitehall, Commissioner of the Customs for Scotland Fellow 30/06/1720 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; MT; Dalton Notes: Birth date given as 18 December 1691 in his manuscript autobiography at British Library, BL Add. MS 39855 Proposed by John Theophilus Desaguliers. Ejected for non-payment of arrears (Journal Book 9 Jun 1757). Alternative spelling of name from DNB. Buried 28 Aug 1775 - his death date has been extrapolated from that. International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 c 1690 - Aug 1775 NA8401 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/306074487 5b2046d1-7c3b-45d6-9056-1221fe534c3e