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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.
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