Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . who were going to the war. This was in June, 1775. He soon had his companyorganized. There were ^upwards of one hundred andthirty men from the mountains and backwoods, paintedlike Indians, armed with tomahawks and rifles, dressedin hunting shirts and moccasins. They set off on theirjourney, and in twenty-two days, after a march of morethan five hundred miles over rough roads, arrived atCambridge, Massachusetts, on the ninth of August. Theywere stationed at Roxbury, to the south of Boston, where,with their rifles, they would pick off at long
Maryland; stories of her people and of her history . who were going to the war. This was in June, 1775. He soon had his companyorganized. There were ^upwards of one hundred andthirty men from the mountains and backwoods, paintedlike Indians, armed with tomahawks and rifles, dressedin hunting shirts and moccasins. They set off on theirjourney, and in twenty-two days, after a march of morethan five hundred miles over rough roads, arrived atCambridge, Massachusetts, on the ninth of August. Theywere stationed at Roxbury, to the south of Boston, where,with their rifles, they would pick off at long range any ofthe enemy that exposed themselves. 68 THOMAS AND MICHAEL CRESAP Captain Cresap was still in bad health, and so, afterserving three months, he got leave to return to his his illness increased, and he had to stop in New York,where he died of a fever on October 18, 1775. He wasonly three and thirty years of age, but those years hadbeen full of adventure and full of endeavor. He wasburied with military honors in Trinity In Memory oFMclwelCreA apTinsrt C&pOffheBlfleBatalionfir And Son to CoC TfcomeisCr e^apWtiolQeparteltiK
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