Pioneers -- Maryland -- History -- Sources
Topic
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Cresap/Bruce Family papers
Collection
0260-MDHC
Abstract
Thomas Cresap (circa 1692-1790) was a Maryland pioneer, settler colonist, and frontiersman. He surveyed Maryland's western frontier for what is known today as the National Road and fought in the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. Records describe Cresap’s participation in the violent attacks of Indigenous people to forcibly overtake their lands. His son, Michael, led Cresap's Riflemen during the American Revolution and records describe Michael Cresap’s murder of Shawnee and...