...the mouth of Redstone Creek on the…

1749 CE

...the mouth of Redstone Creek on the Monongahela River (a tributary of the Ohio River) which will later become Redstone Old Fort and even later Brownsville, Pennsylvania.

Maryland's land grant ends at the crest of the Appalachian mountains, but both Pennsylvania and Virginia claim their land grants continued westward, so the land claimed by Cresap and his traders west of the Appalachians will ultimately became part of upper West Virginia and western Pennsylvania.

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Brownsville Fayette Pennsylvania United States View →

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Christopher Gist View → Lawrence Washington View → Thomas Cresap View → Thomas Lee (Virginia colonist) View →

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Lenape or Lenni-Lenape (later named Delaware Indians by Europeans) View → Ohio Country View → Pennsylvania, Province of (English Colony) View → Maryland, Province of (English Colony) View → Virginia (English Crown Colony) View → Britain, Kingdom of Great View → Ohio Company View →

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Colonization of the Americas, British View →

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