Cresswell, Nicholas ___ 1750-1804 ___ British ___ farmer

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
There is very little information about Cresswell readily available on the internet. He was the son of a sheep farmer at Edale, Derbyshire, a man who, apparently, tried to educate local children in his barn. Nicholas Cresswell worked with his father until 1774, when he left seeking adventure in the United States. He kept a diary during his journey, which tells of trade with native Americans and being caught up in the War of Independence. Thereafter, he returned to England, married in 1781, and settled down as a farmer.
A biography link
No Wikipedia bio

DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1774-1777 ___ military travel self US

WEB TEXT LINKS
etext
lots of extracts
about and good extracts

ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell
 

May 2005, September 2008
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.