Fourth Generation

4. George SOOTER SOOTEUR was born in 1700 in ENGLAND.¹ He died on 24 Aug 1785 in Pennsylvania.¹

George SOOTER SOOTEUR and Nancy CARTER were married in 1741 in Chester Co. Pa..¹ Nancy CARTER died in 1797 in Chester Co. Pa..¹ She was born in Chester Co. Pa..¹ George SOOTER SOOTEUR and Nancy CARTER had the following children:

+5	i.	William Greenberry SOOTER SOOTEUR Sr..
6	ii.	Charles SOOTER SOOTEUR.
7	iii.	John SOOTER SOOTEUR died in battle on 17 Jan 1781 in Battle Cowpens, South Carolina/North Carolina.1 google.com British Battles.com The Battle of Cowpens, 1781. American Revolutionary War, 17th Jan. 1781 Place: South Carolina on the border with North Carolina, U.S.A Combatants: Americans against the British and Loyalist Americans. Generals: Colonel Daniel Morgan against Lieutenant Colone4l Banastre Tarleton Size of armies: the americans had about 1,000 men and the British around 1,100. Uniforms, arms and equipment: The British wore red coats and headgear of beardskin caps, leather caps or tricorne hats depending on whether the troops were grenadiers, light infantry or battalion company men. The two regiments of light dragoons serving in America, the 16th & 17th, wore red coats and leather crested helmets. Some of the militia from the back country of Virtginia, the Carolinas and Georgia carried rifles and in many cases the Pennsylvania small calibre long rifle developed by the German gunsmiths of that colony. It was these riflemen who at the beginning of the battle dshot down sdo many British officers and destroyed the proper control of the british line Winner: Americans, overwhelmingly. Account: The war in the southern colonie had become something of a stalemate, neither side having sufficient strength to hazard full out offensive operations. The fighting was conducted by raiding columns and guerilla activity. Both sides behaved with unrestrained ferocity.
8	iv.	James SOOTER SOOTEUR died in 1781.1 Cowpens?
9	v.	Nancy SOOTER SOOTEUR.
10	vi.	Ruth SOOTER SOOTEUR.
11	vii.	Elizabeth SOOTER SOOTEUR.