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State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
Johann Frederick Michael was born in about 1721 in Germany, emigrated to America about 1738, and is shown on the 1761 Tax List of Rowan County, North Carolina.
Frederick married Christina [surname unknown], and they were the parents of the following known children:
Barnabas "Barnie" was born about 1748
John Bernard was born about 1751 and married Anna Karltsin.
Margaret was born about 1754
Nicholas was born in 1757 and married Mary Grubb.
Frederick, Jr. was born about 1763 and married Elizabeth Baker.
MarySusan
Christina married George Charles
Peter married Elizabeth Day.
In the 1778 Rowan County Property Tax List, he possessed 932 acres of land, son Barnabas 812 acres, and Nicholas 200 acres.
The 1805 Rowan County Probate File (and 1823 Davidson County File) cited below documents the obvious problem concerning conflicting ownership of 331 acres of property that Frederick Michael had purchased in 1772 from land agent Henry Eustace McCullough, Esq. Frederick possessed the land until his 1780 death, then his eldest son Barnabas possessed it until his 1795 death, then son Nicholas possessed it until 1801 when he was "turned out" by Salisbury Court of Confiscated Property because they sold the land to Joseph Cunningham following the 1800 Court case cited below.
Nicholas was the Executor of his brother Barnabas's Estate and the Guardian of his two "infant children," David and Elizabeth, and Frederick Michael was their grandfather. In November 1804, McCullough's heirs also got a judgment for payment of interest dating back 30 years to when Frederick Michael originally bought the land in 1772. In September 1805, the "Heirs of Frederick Michael" brought a case before the Court of Equity, Salisbury District, in an attempt to recover their land. This case dragged on until April 1817. The Court decided that the "Heirs of McCullough, Cunningham, and Allen" had plotted & conspired against the "Heirs of Frederick Michael." Witness dispositions included that of a neighbor, Jacob Wagoner, who said that Frederick Michael, sr. "when called upon went out against the Cheraca Indians" and that his two eldest sons, Barnabas and John, "went over to the British camp."
The Patriot died in 1780, as noted in his 1805 Probate File, and his widow in about 1799.
Sources:
1778 Rowan County Property Tax list, Frederick, Barnabas & Nicholas Michael
1800 Cunningham v. Michael 1 N.C. 298 (N.C. 1800)
1805 Rowan County Probate File of Frederick Michael (158 images)
1823 Davidson County Probate File of Frederick Michael (4 images)
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