by Eileen | Jun 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
Captain John Henry Felder was a passionate, freedom-loving German-Swiss American patriot. He arrived with his parents as a young man, nine years old, from Zurich, Switzerland in 1735. Both of Henry’s parents passed on soon after, leaving him 350 acres of land in the...
by Eileen | Jun 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
John Rutledge Jr. was an American Founding Father and very involved in the American Revolution in South Carolina between 1770 and 1783. He was a politician, and served as the first president of South Carolina in the provisional government during the war and after the...
by Eileen | Jun 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
Catherina was the resourceful second wife of Captain Henry Felder, Sr. Being a frontier wife, she was skilled in many ways to maintain a homestead and also birthed six children with Henry Felder. In the years leading to the war for independence, she and Felder’s sons...
by Eileen | Jun 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
EDWARD GREEN – Mr. Green is a fictional character based on a portion of the population during the war comprised of free black men who were abducted in the north and carried south to be sold as slaves. Captain Henry Felder did not believe in slavery so it was...
by Eileen | Jun 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
JOHN FELDER was born December 1751, in Orangeburg, South Carolina, while it was still part of British Colonial America. His father, Captain Hans Heinrich “Henry” Felder Sr, was 26 and his mother, Maria Elisabeth Schaumlöffel, was 28. He was a resourceful young man,...
