Thomas Cresap
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 68 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5144-9914-4
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Colonel Thomas Cresap (c. 1702–c.1790) was an English-born pioneer settler in the state of Maryland, and an agent of Lord Baltimore in the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary dispute. During the dispute, Cresap became a notorious figure in the Conejohela Flats area—the Susquehanna Valley in the area south of Wright's Ferry—where he was considered a wanted criminal in Pennsylvania. Subsequent to the settlement of Cresap's War by an edict forced by King George II, Cresap founded Oldtown, Maryland by building a trading post along the Amerindian trail over Wills Mountain (Haystack now), in the era when colonials were petitioning the crown to obtain lands across the Allegheny Mountains from the Indians, and then give them out under charter. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в частности. Собранная по частотным запросам указанной...