Friday, September 24, 2021

Captain Cresap



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 ...that the very circumstance of his appointment to the command of this company is the strongest possible evidence of the high estimation in which he stood with his fellow citizens at that period, to wit: in June, 1775; and that, as he died in less than four months after this date, and as his ashes have been honored and permitted to repose in peace for many years... . 

Michael Cresap's entry at Wikitree.

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