CUMING, Thomas 1
User ID: L417. General Notes: "... the son (William Cuming, Jacobite) escaped and went to France, where he got a commission in Lord John Drummond's regiment, and acquired the rank of colonel in the army of Louis XVIII. , having in the course of the late troubles undergone great hardships and the forfeiture of his estate. He married a French lady, by whom he had two sons, Andrew and Thomas, who appear to have married and settled in Demerara - and a daughter, married to a French nobleman." |