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- According to the report "The Michael Family" written by James Parker and Mildred Michael Crewe, Andrew emigrated in 1757, bought part of Tasker's Chance, was a blacksmith, had 10 children; most south of Frederick (Re. Library of Congress)
NOTE: Andrew's will made 1796, probated March 3, 1800 (Liber GM p.366) Frederick County Courthouse
Andrew and Barbara owned 2 dolts (parcels) of land (part of Tasker's Chance) in Fredericktown. They held this for five years and then sold the parcel. On November 23, 1767, they had surveyed a tract of 340 acres under the name of "Cooley (Cooling) Springs", so called for the spring on the property. Andrew received a patent for the land on July 12, 1768. Some of this land remained in the Michael name until May 5, 1974, when it was sold after the death of its last occupant, Elmer Ezra Michael, after 206 consecutive years in the Michael family. "Cooling Springs" was part of an original land grant from King George of England to Lord Baltimore and his agent in America, Charles Carroll of Carrollton (a signer of the Declaration of Independence).
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