# Thomas Cresap

> Colonel Thomas Cresap 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. Later, together with the Native American chief Nemacolin, Cresap improved a Native American path to the Ohio Valley, and ultimately settled and became a large landowner near Cumberland, Maryland, where he was involved in further disputes near Brownsville, Pennsylvania, including in the French and Indian War and Lord Dunmore's War.

*American settler*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1694
- **Died:** 1790
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Colonel Thomas Cresap 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. Later, together with the Native American chief Nemacolin, Cresap improved a Native American path to the Ohio Valley, and ultimately settled and became a large landowner near Cumberland, Maryland, where he was involved in further disputes near Brownsville, Pennsylvania, including in the French and Indian War and Lord Dunmore's War.

## Fame
- **Fame score:** 40.7
- **Momentum:** 4.0

## Sources
- [Thomas Cresap](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cresap)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7788697)

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