Cresap, Michael, 1742-1775
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Henderson and Tomlinson Families Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1426
Overview
Microfilm copy of the papers of the Henderson and Tomlinson families of Wood County, West Virginia, from 1789 to 1859. Materials relate to frontier life in the Parkersburg-Marietta area, and include Alexander Henderson's journal about his settlement on the Little Kanawha River, 1798-1803; his plantation accounts; letters on the Burr conspiracy; and an account of a duel between Henderson and Stephen R. Wilson in 1803. Also includes several items related to Marine Corps Commandant Archibald...
Dates:
1789-1859
Thomas Scott (1772-1856), Facsimiles and Transcriptions of Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2052
Overview
Facsimiles of manuscripts and typescript transcriptions of the papers of a traveling minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church who became a lawyer and a judge. Topics include Captain Michael Cresap, Chief Logan, western massacres during the Revolutionary War, customs and privations of the western settlers, the Kentucky frontier, Methodism in the west, old preachers, and historical recollections. Scott was assigned circuits in Berkeley, Frederick, Gloucester, Ohio, and Stafford counties of...
Dates:
undated
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- Grave Creek. 1
- Judges - letters and papers. 1
- Kentucky 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Little Kanawha River (W. Va.) 1
- Marietta (Ohio) 1
- Ministers - letters and papers. 1
- Ohio 1
- Parkersburg. 1
- Revolutionary War. 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Stafford County (Va.) 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
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