A biographical sketch of the life of the late Capt. Michael Cresap

Cumberland, Maryland: Book and Job Printing Establishment of J. J. Miller, 1881. Third edition, 8vo, pp. 120; original brown cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover; spine a bit sunned, else near fine. The Frank C. Deering copy with his leather bookplate on the front free endpaper. Bookplate removed from front pastedown, but with a sheet bearing John J. Jacob's signature tipped in over it; laid in is an autograph manuscript poem by Jacob with 6 quatrains titled "The Lover to his Mistress on Her Birthday," signed "J.J.J."; also laid in is a one-page A.L.s. from (truncated) Jacob's grand-daughter regarding her books and a photograph of him. "This biography of Cresap was written to refute Jefferson's account in Notes on Virginia of Cresap's tendency to murder Indians, especially in the famous case of the Indian Logan and his defenseless family. The immediate occasion for this ... book, written by the revolutionary officer, late clergyman, who had married Cresap's widow, was the reopening of old sores by Doddridge in his then recently published Notes of 1824. The defense is complete and the biography is of absorbing interest" (Streeter III, 1335 for the first edition of 1826). (Inventory #: 53922)