Michael, son of Michael Snyder, the emigrant, was born in Zweibruecken. March 17, 1743, and was eight years of age when he arrived here. He was apprenticed to a Mr. Zimmerman near Kutztown, Maxatawny Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, and his name is of record there in the tax lists for 1767 and 1768. Lynn Township is said to have been his home for a short time. As early as 1771 he located in Whitehall township, and was taxed there upon one thousand acres of land in 1785. About the same year he opened a tavern, and his name is recorded in the tax lists of 1786 and 1788 as a tavern keeper. May 18, 1787, for the sum of two hundred and ten pounds, he sold to Peter Rhoads, Esq., three hundred and six and one-quarter acres of land in one parcel. The signature on this deed was written in German, and his wile, Hannah made her mark; the witnesses to the deed were George Schneider and Peter Kohler.

Michael Snyder served his adopted country bravely, enlisting as a private in the war of the Revolution, and in 1777 was captain of a company of sixty men in the second Battalion, Northampton county militia, commanded by Colonel Henry Geiger. He was major of the First Battalion in 1780, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Stephen Balliet. Subsequently, having sold his land to his son George, Mr. Snyder removed to Trexlertown, where he lived in the old stone house which was but recently demolished, and which stood on the left side of the road leading to Fogelsville, and there his death occurred, April 2, 1834. His descendants were many, consisting of six children, fifty-six grandchildren, one hundred and thirteen great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren.