Capt. Michael Cresap

Captain Michael Cresap, a colonial and Revolutionary figure connected with Ohio, Virginia, and Maryland, helped secure the Dunmore Treaty after the Battle of Point Pleasant, where he fought in the Hampshire County, Virginia regiment. He was present here in October 1774 as a signer of the Dunmore Treaty. His companions in arms, including Ebenezer Zane, General George Rogers Clarke, Colonel Benjamin Wilson, and Benjamin Tomlinson, corrected Logan's mistake in linking Cresap to the Yellow Creek Affair. Cresap also took the first company from the South to General Washington at Cambridge. He died in service and was buried with the Honors of War, and his tomb stands in Trinity Churchyard in New York City.

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