Michael was a son of Mathias Ley and Anna Maria Kemp, German immigrants who landed in Philadelphia in 1733. |
Michael married Margaret Lambert about 1762, and resided in Berks County between Kutztown and Reading. |
Cofounder of Lebanon Lutheran Church, Loysville, Pennsylvania. |
During the American Revolution, Michael served as a Private in Captain Abraham DeHuff's Company of the Pennsylvania Battalion of Musketry, and in Samuel John Atlee's Company, encamped near King's Bridge. |
The town of Andesville (originally called Red Hook) was built on a portion of a tract of land purchased by him in October 1788, and sometime after 1842, the name was changed to Loysville in honor of him. |
The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 65 page 182 (DAR ID Number: 64519):
Michael Loy (or Lei) (1740-1823 DAR: A069120) PAID SUPPLY TAX 1781
Also see DAR ID: 738682 |