![]() ![]() Finding himself at loose ends, John Ledyard went to sea. Ledyard was so profligate that his grandfather willed his estate to his younger brother. He was the first white man to make the trip the Dartmouth Outing Club’s canoers take an annual trip in canoes down the river in his honor. ![]() His most memorable achievement was paddling a wooden canoe 140 miles down the Connecticut River from Hanover, N.H., to his grandfather’s farm in Hartford. He briefly attended Dartmouth until he was expelled. He grew up in Hartford with his grandfather after his father died of malaria in the Caribbean. John Ledyard was born in Groton, Conn., in November 1751, the son of a wealthy sea captain. He signed up with Cook as a corporal on the Resolution, one of two ships Cook was sailing to the Pacific. Ledyard was an American adventurer from Connecticut, a marine in the British Navy looking for adventure. ![]()
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