Michael Cresap

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Michael Cresap (April 17, 1742 – October 18, 1775) was a noted frontiersman born in Maryland, in what is now the United States.

Biography

Cresap was the son of the pioneer Colonel

As a result of the murders, Logan waged war on the settlements along the Ohio and in western Pennsylvania, killing, perhaps, nearly thirty men, women and children. Lord John Murray Dunmore, the Governor of Virginia, raised an army and appointed Cresap to the rank of Captain. The decisive battle of Lord Dunmore's War was the Battle of Point Pleasant in Virginia (now West Virginia). Dunmore's forces defeated a band of Shawnee led by Cornstalk.

After Lord Dunmore's War, Cresap returned to Maryland and subsequently raised a company of riflemen for the Continental Army during the American Revolution. He died from illness in New York City while in the service of the army; he is interred there in Trinity Church Cemetery.

Legacy

• The Michael Cresap House (c. 1764) — Cresap's stone and brick house in western Maryland — was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.^[3]
• The Cresap Rifle Club, a non-profit shooting range in Frederick, Maryland, has been open for almost a century and bears the surname of Michael Cresap.

See also

• Captina Creek

References

External links

• The American Revolution Institute

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