"Sometime in the spring in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty and Four, A gang of horses came up to the door of the Dwelling house of the ofsd. Col. Thomas Cresap and that a certain Michael Cresap, son of Daniel Cresap, aged four years or thereabout, going out of the house of the afsd. Thomas in order to go into another house a small stallion came in amongst the gang and got a fighting and the said stallion ran and catched ahold of the lower part of the ear of the said Michael in his teeth and bit it entirely off to the great damage and hurt of him the said Michael and that she this deponent ran as fast as she could to save him thinking he had been killed and found his ear bit off and also found the piece that was bit off lying on the ground."
deposition given by Hannah Cresap, wife of Thomas Cresap, recorded October 5, 1756.
Father: Colonel Daniel Cresap, 1728-1798
Mother: Martha Flint
Wife: Elizabeth Whitehead 1752-1778
deposition given by Hannah Cresap, wife of Thomas Cresap, recorded October 5, 1756.
Father: Colonel Daniel Cresap, 1728-1798
Mother: Martha Flint
Wife: Elizabeth Whitehead 1752-1778
"Sometime in the spring in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty and Four, A gang of horses came up to the door of the Dwelling house of the ofsd. Col. Thomas Cresap and that a certain Michael Cresap, son of Daniel Cresap, aged four years or thereabout, going out of the house of the afsd. Thomas in order to go into another house a small stallion came in amongst the gang and got a fighting and the said stallion ran and catched ahold of the lower part of the ear of the said Michael in his teeth and bit it entirely off to the great damage and hurt of him the said Michael and that she this deponent ran as fast as she could to save him thinking he had been killed and found his ear bit off and also found the piece that was bit off lying on the ground."
deposition given by Hannah Cresap, wife of Thomas Cresap, recorded October 5, 1756.
Father: Colonel Daniel Cresap, 1728-1798
Mother: Martha Flint
Wife: Elizabeth Whitehead 1752-1778
deposition given by Hannah Cresap, wife of Thomas Cresap, recorded October 5, 1756.
Father: Colonel Daniel Cresap, 1728-1798
Mother: Martha Flint
Wife: Elizabeth Whitehead 1752-1778
Inscription
"Sacred to the memory
of Michail Crefap who
departed this life Sep
30 1788 Aged 38 years
A pilgrimage of eight and thirty
years
Spent below in this sad vale of tears,
Summoned to take my seat
with Christ above
I leave this earth to seek
the God of love."
"Michael Cresap
1750 - 1788
Captain in Dunmore's
and Revolutionary Wars.
Son of Daniel Cresap,
Grandson of Col. Thomas Cresap"
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