Download or read book Life of Col Thomas Cresap of Western Maryland written by Mary Louise Cresap Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1901* with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Col Thomas Cresap written by Mynna Thruston and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rattlesnake Colonel written by Michael Maloney and published by Michael Maloney. This book was released on 2024-07-03 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Cresap’s life serves as a primer on Colonial American history. In addition to being at the forefront of the contentious border conflicts between the colonies of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, he played a part in the French and Indian War, Pontiac’s Rebellion, and the American Revolution as an officer in the Maryland militia. Cresap was an active member of the Lower House of the Maryland Assembly, the Committee of Observation, the Sons of Liberty, and the Ohio Company of Virginia. Few individuals did more, over such a long period of time, to further America’s westward expansion into the Ohio Valley than Thomas Cresap, and his personal relationships with many of the most influential men of his time helped shape the frontier. Despite all his positive contributions, Cresap was not always held in high regard by everyone. In Pennsylvania he was considered a quarrelsome and lawless ruffian known as the “Maryland Monster,” and many in the British army discounted Cresap as a “Rattlesnake Colonel.” However, settlers in Western Maryland regarded Cresap as a folk hero, and the Six Nations of the Iroquois affectionately called him “Big Spoon” for his generosity. In reality, Cresap was many things, including a frontiersman, soldier, trailblazer, ferryman, land speculator, trader, surveyor, politician, patriot, husband, and father. Drawn from Colonial land records, legislative proceedings, journals, and personal correspondence, Rattlesnake Colonel chronicles Thomas Cresap’s controversial life and narrates the complicated political and military conflicts of eighteenth-century Colonial America in a comprehensive yet understandable way.
Download or read book The History of the Cresaps written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Omits chapters IX-XI of previous editions but includes "revised genealogy containing the names of several thousand Cresap descendants not listed in the first edition."
Download or read book History of Western Maryland written by John Thomas Scharf and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Western Maryland written by John Thomas Scharf and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Western Maryland written by J. Thomas Scharf and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The preparation of "History of Western Maryland", one of the most voluminous works on the history of that party of the United States, imposed a vast responsibility and an immense amount of labor. In the compilation of this history no authority of importance has been overlooked. The author has carefully examined every source of information open to him, and has availed himself of every fact that could throw new light upon, or impart additional interest to, the subject under consideration. Besides consulting the most reliable records and authorities, over fifteen thousand communications were addressed to persons supposed to be in possession of facts or information calculated to add value to the work. Recourse has not only been had to the valuable libraries of Baltimore, Annapolis, Frederick, and Hagerstown, but the author and his agents have visited personally the entire territory embraced in the six counties of Western Maryland, spending much time in each district, examining ancient newspapers, musty manuscripts, family, church, and society records, conversing with the aged inhabitants, and collecting from them orally many interesting facts never before published, and which otherwise, in all probability, would soon have been lost altogether. In addition to the material partly used in the preparation of his " Chronicles" and " History of Baltimore City and County" and " History of Maryland," the author has consulted an immense number of pamphlets, consisting of county and town documents, reports of societies, associations, corporations, and historical discourses, and, in short, everything of a fugitive character that might in any way illustrate the history of Western Maryland. Sketches of the rise, progress, and present condition of the various religious denominations, professions, political parties, and charitable and benevolent institutions, societies, and orders form a conspicuous feature of the work. Manufacturing, commercial, and agricultural interests have also a prominent place. An account of the county school system is also given, and a history of the various institutions of learning of which Western Maryland has every reason to be proud. Many of the facts recorded, both statistical and historical, may seem trivial or tediously minute to the general reader, and yet such facts have a local interest and sometimes a real importance. Considerable space has also been given to biographies of leading and representative men, living and dead, who have borne an active part in the various enterprises of life, and who have become closely identified with the history of Frederick, Washington, Montgomery, Allegany, Carroll, and Garrett Counties. The achievements of the living must not be forgotten, nor must the memories of those who have passed away be allowed to perish. It is the imperative duty of the historian to chronicle their public and private efforts to advance the great interests of society. Their deeds are to be recorded for the benefit of those who follow them; they, in fact, form part of the history of their communities, and their successful lives add to the glory of the Commonwealth. A distinguishing feature of the work is its statistics of the various districts into which the six counties of Western Maryland are divided. In them the reader is brought into close relation with every part of Western Maryland. This is volume one out of six, covering the time from the first settlers to the Civil War.
Download or read book The Story of Thomas Cresap a Maryland Pioneer written by Lawrence Counselman Wroth and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Index of the Source Records of Maryland written by Eleanor Phillips Passano and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1967 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major part of this work is an alphabetically arranged and cross-indexed list of some 20,000 Maryland families with references to the sources and locations of the records in which they appear. In addition, there is a research record guide arranged by county and type of record, and it identifies all genealogical manuscripts, books, and articles known to exist up to 1940, when this book was first published. Included are church and county courthouse records, deeds, marriages, rent rolls, wills, land records, tombstone inscriptions, censuses, directories, and other data sources.
Download or read book A Biographical Sketch of the Life of the Late Captain Michael Cresap written by John Jeremiah Jacob and published by Arno Press. This book was released on 1866 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A defense of Capt. Cresap, contradicting the statements made by T. Jefferson in his Notes on the State of Virginia and J. Doddridge in his Notes on the settlement and Indian wars of the western parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania from 1763 to 1783.
Download or read book Colonel Thomas Cresap written by Mary Louise Cresap Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Frederick County Maryland written by Thomas John Chew Williams and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wilson Family of Western Maryland and West Virginia and Associated Families written by Merritt Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Wilson I. (d. 1764) was born in Edinburg, Scotland, immigrated to Northern Ireland where he married Mary Riley. Together they immigrated to Nova Scotia in 1732, and later to Frederick County, Maryland. Descendants lived also in Maine, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana and elsewhere.
Download or read book The Life of Thomas Johnson Member of the Continental Congress First Governor of the State of Maryland and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court written by Edward S. Delaplaine and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maryland Historical Magazine written by William Hand Browne and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the proceedings of the Society.
Download or read book The Cresap Society Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Maryland from the Earliest Period to the Present Day 1765 1812 written by John Thomas Scharf and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
