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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Private
Birth: abt 1730 / / VA Death: aft 25 Dec 1788 / Bedford / VA
Qualifying Service Description:
Private. Bedford County Militia, Heth's Indepenent Company and Captain Uriah Springer's Company, Colonel Gibson's 7th Virginia Regiment of Continental Line, 1780 - July 1783
Additional References:
Company Muster & Pay Rolls, 1780-1783, National Archives, Records of the Revolutionary War, pg 283
Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution, pg 337, 347, 370
Michael was born circa 1730. He was married firstly to Anna Moles(?), and secondly circa 1776 to Mary Ann (Doss) Preston. From 1780 until July 1783 Michael saw service during the American Revolution. He first enlisted as a Private, in Heath's Independent Company of Bedford County Militia, and then into Captain Uriah Springer's Company. Both Colonel Gibson's 7th Virginia Regiment of Continental Line. He died circa 1800, in Bedford County, Virginia.
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