My Fathers' Land

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My Fathers' Land is written by Carl Feather and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 173304602X (ISBN 10) and 9781733046022 (ISBN 13).

In the eighteenth century, German-Swiss immigrants followed the Scotch-Irish into the trans-Allegheny regions of Pennsylvania and Virginia in search of abundant mountainous farmland similar to that their ancestors tilled for generations in the Palatinate. My Father's Land is the story of the Jacob and Mary (Connery) Feather (Vätter) family from the time of immigration in 1775, through serving in Washington's Continental Army, moving to Somerset County, Pa., and finally settling in what became Preston County, W.Va. This is a story of coming full circle in high places, of eight generations of Feathers and other Palatinate and Scotch-Irish immigrants who quilted a blanket of heritage and family in the high Alleghenies.A moving, sweeping memoir; a rare portrait of Palatinates in Appalachia; a family historyfor both the historian and casual reader.Photographs by the author.