The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
The earliest record of the Clodfelter ancestors goes back to Swiss Canton of Zurich and the region around the Glatt River and its smooth fields (“glatt-felter”). The records in Glattenfelden and in its Glattenfelden Church date back to 1596. So many people were leaving Switzerland by the mid 11700s that the cantonal governments were considering prohibiting further emigration.
In order to learn something about the extent of the emigrations the parish pastors were requested to compile lists of those who had left their parishes. It was from such a prepared list that we learn that the Glattfelter brothers were planning to leave the country and come to the Carolinas. When their ship, the Francis and Elizabeth, docked in Philadelphia on August 30, 1743, the Glattfelters and other relatives were on it.
George Clodfelter was baptized October 9, 1747 and died October 5, 1837 and was the son of Felix Clodfelter. He was married at least twice; first to Elizabeth Leonard and then to Catherine Sowers.
He signed the Oath of Allegiance in Rowan County in 1778. He served as a private in the NC troops under Captain John Lapp and Colonel Paisley.
By 1800 he was living on a plantation near the current Back Creek Presbyterian Church in western Rowan, and when he died was buried there on the family farm. In 1999 the Salisbury Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution placed a monument at his grave to remember his service to his country.
Reference, Cyril L., “The Family of Noah Clodfelter”, Russellville, Indiana, 1954
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