Born ‎02 Jul 1740 at Greenwich, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States, died ‎19 Jul 1823 at Loysville, Perry County, Pennsylvania, United States‎, age 83 years, buried at Lebanon Lutheran and Reformed Churchyard, Loysville, Perry County, Pennsylvania, United States. Religion: Lutheran

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.

Michael married Margaret Lambert about 1762, and resided in Berks County between Kutztown and Reading.

Michael was a son of Mathias Ley and Anna Maria Kemp, German immigrants who landed in Philadelphia in 1733.

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

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.