Wesley Steele

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Francis married Melissa J. Prater 02 Oct 1858, Waters of Maiden Springs, Tazewell Co., Va. Melissa (daughter of John Prather, Prater and Margaret Griffith, Patsy) was born , Russel Co., Va.. [Group Sheet]

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Edmond married Pheobe McMeans, Lety Jane of Tazewell Co., Va. Pheobe was born , of Tazewell Co., Va. [Group Sheet]

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John married Margaret Griffith, Patsy 24 Sep 1807, Tazewell Co., Va.. Margaret was born , of Tazewell Co., Va; was christened , Full Blood Indian, Prob. Cherokee. [Group Sheet]

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Richard — Eleanor or Ellen Marlow. [Group Sheet]

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Jonathan lived in Frederick Co., Va. and Bedford Co., Va.
He was a farmer/plantationer.
His Will was recorded in Bedford Co., VA. in 1772.

Jonathan married Elizabeth Cresap Fredericks Co., Md. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Cresap, Col and Hannah Johnson) was born , Fredericks Co., Md.. [Group Sheet]

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The Cresaps were institutions unto themselves on the Maryland frontier.

A Mr. Cresap ran a trading post in what is now Oldtown, Alleghey Co.,
Maryland.
He was a hunter, trapper, mountain man.
He launched a small border war with Pennsylvania, over what he considered to
be border incursions. He was a friend to the local Indians, and traded with
the Tuscaroras, when they were passing through on their migration from the
Carolinas to New York. They went out of their way to visit the Cresap trading
post.
The Tuscaroras go fed up with all the whites moving into the Carolinas, and
decided to make a major move of their entire people to link up with the Five
Nations of the Iroquois Federation - to make is six.
Despite all the grief they encountered in the interim, it saved them from
deportation under Andrew Jackson to the Indian Territy (now Oklahoma), re the
Trail of Tears, with the other Southern U.S. tribes.

A Cresap led the first contingent of Maryland riflemen, with their fringed
doeskin smocks and long rifes, on the very long hike from Western Maryland to
New England to join the Continental Army.
They became the "core" of famous "Maryland Line" of the revolution.

From: Jim Kotmair (1997)
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Alolegany Co., Maryland

John Jeremiah Jacob and Mary his wife, surviving executrix of Michael Cresap,
Esquire for of Maryland ... Luther Martin of Baltimore Twon, Osborn Sprigg of
Hamsphire Co., VA. and Lenox Martin of Frederick Co., Maryland ... property in
Hampshire Co., VA. and Allegany Co., Maryland to which Mary, Elizabeth, and
Sarah, the three daughters of Michael Cresap are entitled under the Will of
their father. Recorded 8 June, 1791
Witnesses: John Mitchell, James Prather, Danial Cresap Jr.
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Cerification Recorded 17 Dec., 1791... House of Worship called Cresap's Church
in Allegany Co., set apart as house of Divine Worship for use of Methodist
Episcopal Church, signed Joseph Cresap. House in Twon of Cumberland set apart
as house of Divine Worship for use of Methodist Episcopal Church, signed
Joseph Cresap. Trustee. House in town of Shipton set apart as house of Divine
Worship for use of Methodist Episcopal church, signed John I. Jacob.