Emmigrated with a company of Hugenots to escape religious persecurion. . Date of entry given as 8/28/1773

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Upon the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, he, with numerous other countrymen, were obliged to flee from France and locate in the Palatinate where he was born, and in 1733, he emigrated to Pennsylvania. After landing at Philadelphia, he immediately proceeded up the Delaware and Lehigh rivers and settled in the vicinity of Egypt on a tract of land four miles north-west of Catasuaqua. In 1763, while three of his little children were hunting chestnuts near their home, two of them were murdered by the Indians. Other persons were also murdered during the Indian invasion. The Historical Society of Lehigh County in the Fall. of 1913, set up a stone "marker" in Whitehall Township, about a mile from Egypt, to indicate the locality of the massacre.

Jean Jacques Michelet was born in Zweibrucken, Alsace-Lorraine, in 1697. He took passage on the ship "Hope" April 6, 1733, and arrived in Philadelphia August 28, 1733. He had left his native country on account of religions persecution, and after making his home with a relative in Berks County for a time, he came to this section and purchased land in North Whitehall Township, the deed to which was given by John Penn. A part of this property is now owned by the Thomas Iron Company, and other portions by Franklin P. Mickley, of Balliettsville, this county. After residing on the farm for about two years, Jean J. Mickley located a short distance north of Egypt, where he made his home until his decease, August 18, 1769. Six years previous to his death occurred the celebrated Indian raid in Lehigh Valley, historically known as the Whitehall Indian raid, in which a number of persons were killed, two of his children, a son and daughter, among them.