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REVOLUTIONARY WAR SERVICE
Civil. Took Oath of Alliegience 9 OCT 1775.
Military. Served in Captain Samuel Morris Co., Philadelphia. Also serviced under Luke Morris.
BIOGRAPHY
Jacob Feather (alternate spellings: Vatter, Vetter, Fetter, Fedder, Fether), the son of Joseph Christian Vatter and Maria [--?--],
was born about 1759 near Frankenthal, Rhineland Pfalz (the Palatinate), Germany and died 22 MAY 1832 in Preston Co. (now) West Virginia. He married Mary Connoly on 24 MAY 1791 in Milford Township, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania. Mary, was born about 1769 and died 22 OCT 1860 in Preston County, West Virginia.
Jacob arrived in Philiadelphia with his parents in the ship King of Prussia on the eve of the Revolution. While the identity of his exact unit is at times unclear, it appears he served in the 6th Regiment, and may have been at the Battles of Trenton and of Yorktown. Following the war, he settled in Millford Township, the county lines changing several times until it became Somerset Co., Pennsylvania. In 1804 Jacob moved his family to Preseton Co., (now) West Virginia, where he lived out the rest of his life.
Jacob Feather and Mary Connoly had eleven children.
GRAVE LOCATION
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GRAVE SITE
Lutheran Cemetery, near Lenox, West Virginia
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DESCENDANTS IN WESTMINSTER CHAPTER, MARYLAND STATE SOCIETY, SONS OF
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Robert Franklin Rodeheaver