A native of Scotland. Settled on Fall’s Creek,, Northampton Co., Pennsylvania. Joined Washington’s foercees at age 60. Slain in an engagement.

Name referred to as Michael Lauri in Proceedings of the Lehugh County Historical Soc., Vol. 1, pp. 104.

Michael Laury, descended in direct line from the house of Maxwellton, an illustrious family of Dumfrieshire, Scotland. His birthplace was on the picturesque River Neth. which joins Solway Firth, about ten miles south of the city of Dumfries, and from there he went to Germany for political reasons, his safety being endangered. At Wurtemberg he married a Miss Gottshalk, and with his bride came to Pennsylvania, arriving in Philadelphia in 1756, their first child, Godfrey Laury, being born in Philadelphia, November 22, 1756, and there too their second son, John Laury, was born. Sometime after the birth of the second son, Michael Laury, with his wife and two sons, settled on Falls Creek, Northampton Co., Pennsylvania. When the call came for soldiers to battle for the cause of Independence, Michael Laury and his two sons, Godfrey and John, joined the Continental Army. Michael, who was then sixty years of age, giving as a reason that he was "homesick" for his two sons. All three fought in the battle of Monmouth in 1777, and there Michael Laury was killed. He was buried in the cemetery at now Warrenville, Somerset County. New Jersey.