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Colonel Thomas Cresap (c.1702 – c.1790) was an English-born settler and trader in the states of Maryland and Pennsylvania. Cresap served Lord Baltimore as an agent in the Maryland–Pennsylvania boundary dispute that became known as Cresap's War .
During the eight-year Cresap’s War, as it came to be known, armed gangs and colonial militias took turns storming the disputed border, exchanging threats and the occasional gunshot. When Cresap ...
Thomas Stone (1743 – 1787) planter, politician, and lawyer who signed the Declaration of Independence, namesake of the SS Thomas Stone: Michael J. Stone (1747 – 1812) American planter and statesman John Hoskins Stone (1749 – 1804) planter, soldier, and 7th Governor of Maryland William Murray Stone (1779 – 1838) clergyman Frederick Stone
Cresap's War (also known as the Conojocular War, from the Conejohela Valley where it was mainly located along the south bank) was a border conflict between Pennsylvania and Maryland fought in the 1730s. Hostilities erupted in 1730 with a series of violent incidents prompted by disputes over property rights and law enforcement.
When the United States declared war on Britain in 1812, the North West Company put its ships and its voyageurs at the disposal of the British government. [4] The Nor'Westers pressed the British to take Fort Mackinac and to move the British garrison on St. Joseph island to the company's trading post at Sault Ste. Marie . [ 3 ]
An American advance from Plattsburgh in March 1814, led by Maj. Gen. James Wilkinson, was checked just beyond the border, but on 3 July 500 men under General Brown seized Fort Erie across the Niagara in a coordinated attack with Commodore Isaac Chauncey's fleet designed to wrest control of Lake Ontario from the British.
The war in Europe against the French Empire under Napoleon ensured that the British did not consider the War of 1812 against the United States as more than a sideshow. [281] Britain's blockade of French trade had worked and the Royal Navy was the world's dominant nautical power (and remained so for another century).
His family grew to know trader Thomas Cresap, and moved south and west with the Cresap family, likely after a controversy between groups of settlers aligned with the colonies of Maryland and Pennsylvania known as Cresap's War. [1] Circa 1750, Cresap received instructions to improve the Native American path across the Appalachian Mountains ...