Nelson's biographical dictionary and historical reference book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : containing a condensed history of Pennsylvania, of Fayette County, and the boroughs and townships of the county :also, portraits and biographies of the governors since 1790, and genealogies,family histories and biographies of representative men of the county :illustrated . he famed chief,Nemacolin, had his home within its boun-daries : here also stood the prehistoric earth-work known from time immemorial as Red-stone Old Fort, and also Fort Burd, the sec-ond work of this kind erected by white menin
Nelson's biographical dictionary and historical reference book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : containing a condensed history of Pennsylvania, of Fayette County, and the boroughs and townships of the county :also, portraits and biographies of the governors since 1790, and genealogies,family histories and biographies of representative men of the county :illustrated . he famed chief,Nemacolin, had his home within its boun-daries : here also stood the prehistoric earth-work known from time immemorial as Red-stone Old Fort, and also Fort Burd, the sec-ond work of this kind erected by white menin the valley of the Ohio. If we except a few temporary settlers whogathered around Fort Burd probably as ameans of protection and defense, as well asfor purposes of trade, Michael Cresap wasthe first white settler within the limits thatnow constitute the borough of were others who preceded him, nota-bly Thomas Brown, founder of the town, butthese established themselves at neighboringpoints, and not exactly within the limits in-cluded in the present borough. MichaelCresap .belonged to a family which hadfigured conspicuously in the early history ofMaryland. His father was the well-knownCol. Thomas Cresap who had served theOhio Company as its agent, and had beenamong the first to follow the line of the oldNemacolin jn-uh to the IMonongahela coun-.
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