 Cresap became a notorious figure in the Conejohela Flats areathe lower Susquehanna Valley in the area south of Wright's Ferrywhere his actions (and those of his men) as an agent on behalf of Lord Baltimore made him a wanted criminal in Pennsylvania.Cresap and his men several times used force to evict men who had considered themselves legal under Pennsylvania's Colonial Charter, but whom Cresap and Lord Baltimore considered squatters interfering with Maryland's charter.Because of the bloodshed during Cresap's War, King George II issued an edict forcing a settlement of the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary dispute against the claims by Lord Baltimore.