AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTES in the hand (cf. Add. MSS. 5726 c., f. 161 ; 32714, f. 107) of "Sir Alexander Cuming, of Culter, [2nd] Baronet, who in the year 1730 brought over to England seven chiefs of the Cherokee Indians to pay their homage to His Britan... 1764-1767

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AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTES in the hand (cf. Add. MSS. 5726 c., f. 161 ; 32714, f. 107) of "Sir Alexander Cuming, of Culter, [2nd] Baronet, who in the year 1730 brought over to England seven chiefs of the Cherokee Indians to pay their homage to His Britan... 1764-1767

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