The Lasley Family of Old Mackinac 2nd EditionBorn just one year before the United States of America declared her independence from Great Britain, Samuel C. Lasley arrived at Michilimackinac in 1796 as part of a battalion of American troops aiming to take the Island from the British. Within a couple of years, he and his wife, Rachel, settled on the Island to start a family, and would spend the rest of their lives living among one of Michigans most beautiful landscapes. They later established the