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Captain Thomas Cresap, a Marylander, settled on the Indian lands of Conejohela in 1730 and held them for Lord Baltimore against the Penn Proprietors until 1736, when during the border war he was burned out of his log house or fort near the river on his plantation, Pleasant Garden, and carried prisoner to Philadelphia.
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