Thomas Cresap
Colonel Thomas Cresap (c.1702—c.1790) was an English-born pioneering settler and trader in the states of Maryland and Pennsylvania. He is something of a founding father from the dark side in American Colonial history, both reviled and admired. Cresap served Lord Baltimore as an agent in the 'Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary dispute' that became known as Cresap's War south of what became Wrightsville, Pennsylvania. Later, together with the Native American chief Nemacolin, Cresap improved a Native American path to the Ohio Valley, and ultimately settled and became a large landowner near Cumberland, Maryland where he became involved in further disputes near Brownsville, Pennsylvania including in the French and Indian War and Lord Dunmore's War.
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| Birth date | January 01, 1702 |
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| Date of death | January 01, 1790 |
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