Cresap, Mary.
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At an early age Mary Whitehead of Philadelphia married Michael Cresap, frontier Indian fighter and Revolutionary soldier.
Cresap set up as a trader in western Maryland prior to the War. He died in 1775 while in command of a company of riflemen for the Continental Army. His widow Mary remarried in the early 1780's John J. Jacob, who later became her first husband's biographer.
From the description of Letter : to Col. John B. Howard, Near Joppa Cross Roads, Baltimore County, Md., [178-]. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 36846460
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creatorOf | Cresap, Mary. Letter : to Col. John B. Howard, Near Joppa Cross Roads, Baltimore County, Md., [178-]. | Newberry Library |
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