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Biographical sketches of Michael Reasor and Anna Herbert

From "The Early History of the Michael Reasor Family",
written by F. Hines Dale of Guymon, Oklahoma, April 14, 1941
Uploaded on Ancestry.com by user SchmuhlFamily

Michael Reasor, Jr.

February 3, 1760 – June 11, 1843

and

Anna Herbert Reasor

September 1, 1760 – July 5th, 1847

Michael Reasor, Jr. was born February 3, 1760 at Winchester, Virginia. His father is Michael Reasor, Sr.; his mother is currently unknown. Michael had a brother named Frederick. He would later name one of his sons after his brother.

On May 1, 1777, Michael Jr. enlisted as a fifer in Colonel Kennedy's Virginia Regiment under General George Washington. He marched through Maryland to Lancaster, Pennsylvania and later to Philadelphia. In January of 1779 he was discharged at Philadelphia.

Michael Jr. and his brother, Frederick, had a ship outfitted and they sailed for Germany where they obtained a cargo of one half million dollars worth of leather goods for delivery to the Revolutionary Army. As they made their return across the Atlantic, a violent storm arose, disabling their ship. The Reasor brothers and their sailors were rescued by a passing Scotch vessel and the brothers were landed in Philadelphia, without a dollar to their names.

Back on American soil and penniless, Michael reenlisted in the Revolutionary Army in Capt. Williams Frost's Virginia Company, again under George Washington's command. He was present when England's Gen. Cornwallis surrendered his sword to George Washington. He was discharged at Richmond, Virginia on September 1, 1781.

For his services in the Revolutionary War, Michael was granted a pension of sixty dollars per year. His pension was discontinued on March 4, 1843, for the reason that he had acquired land to such an extent, under the law a pension could no longer be paid.

Soon after Michael was discharged from the Army, he married Anna Herbert on February 27, 1782. She was born September 1, 1760 in New Jersey. Her father is Thomas Herbert, born in Germany in 1730. After their marriage, Michael and Anna resided at Winchester, Virginia until 1797, at which time they had seven children. They then immigrated to what is now Spencer County (formerly a part of Shelby County, Kentucky) and settled on land at Little Mount, where they resided for 40 plus years until their deaths.

On June 11, 1843, Michael Reasor died at his home at Little Mount, Spencer County, Kentucky. He is buried in the Little Mount Cemetery. His wife Anna died at Little Mount on July 5th, 1847 and her body laid to rest next to her husband's. They were cared for in their declining years by their son, James Reasor, who lived on the home place with them.

Children of Michael Reasor and Ann Herbert:
  1. Thomas Reasor, born in Virginia December 27, 1782. Died young, unmarried
  2. Frederick Reasor, born in Virginia January 6, 1785
  3. Hannah Reasor, born in Virginia January 26, 1787
  4. Josiah Reasor, born in Virginia April 2, 1789
  5. Daniel Reasor, born in Virginia, June 15, 1791
  6. Elizabeth Reasor, born in Virginia September 29, 1793
  7. William Reasor, born in Virginia, February 10, 1796
  8. Anna Reasor, born in Kentucky December 25, 1797
  9. Margaret Reasor, born in Kentucky June 10, 1800
  10. James Reasor, born in Kentucky August 6, 1803
  11. Sarah Reasor, born in Kentucky, November 14, 1805
Unfortunately little is known of the descendants of Michael's brother, Frederick Reasor. Frederick married Celia Copper November 27, 1787 in Winchester Virginia and then moved to Scott County, Kentucky. His two daughters married in Scott County, Kentucky, and with their husbands, moved to Indiana.

Comments

  1. I have to be suspicious of the story about Michael and Frederick's voyage to England, at least in the chronology given here. Michael would have been only about 20 years old, and that would be quite an undertaking for a 20-year-old farmer from Kentucky.
  2. Contemporaneous records, including his christening, demonstrate that Thomas Herbert was born in Philadelphia in 1731. He is reported to have died in New Jersey.
  3. Michael and Anna are my 4th great-grandparents. Their daughter, Sarah, and her husband, Samuel McCutchan, were my 3rd great-grandparents.
- Robin Richmond, Cleveland Ohio, September, 2020.


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