1Will of Andrew Feaster Born 1735 of Switzerland.. "Will listed in book "Colvin and Allied Families" lists all of the Children Spouses Page 438."
1Ethell and Baker Colvin, "Colvin and Allied Families" Feaster Grave Yard, Fiarfield County, South Carolina, Page 438. "On Grave Monument, Margaret Fry Cooper, departed this life the 10th of October 1823, age 95 years, a native of Philadelphia, (Widow when he married her)."
1Information from Family History Book Entitled Colvin and Allied Families By Ethelle and Baker Colvin. Library of Cong Cat. "! Information from Family History Book Entitled Colvin and Allied Families By Ethelle and Baker Colvin. Library of Cong Cat. # 65-26308.
! Peter Pfister came to America from the Canton of Berne, Switzerland, wife and son, Andrew, and perhaps other children, sometime subsequent to 1735. They settled in Lancaster Co., Penn. Andrew changed the spelling of the name to its present form about 1767. Andrew married in Philadelphia a widow, Mrs. Peter Cooper (her maiden name was Margaret Fry). She had three children- Adam, Eve( or Elizabeth, or Eliza), and Peter. It is not known just when they left Penn., for the south, some tradition saying 1770, others nearer 1780. Peter Pfeister was then a very old man. There isn't a thing known about his wife, mother of Andrew. They feared the journey would be too much for him, and Andrew suggested waiting for his father's death before leaving penn. but he insisted on their going and bringing him along, saying " Heaven is as near one place as another, and if he died on the way, why bury him there." They were six months on the way, and Peter died in Virginia. Brave old man, and how sad the son must have felt, leaving that spot. I hope the burial was in a graveyard, where others lay. They traveled on to Georgia, perhaps there were a number together, for its probable the Colvins came then. When they reached the Savannah River, news of the Indians being on the war-path further on caused them to come back to South Carolina, where they bought land. The first settlement we know of being the place known as the Wyatt Coleman place, he getting it through his wife, Alley Cockrell, who was a grand-daughter of Andrew, and inherited the land after death of her uncle Jacob Feaster, who left no children. The whole neighborhood around here for many years was known as Feasterville.".
1Ethell and Baker Colvin, "Colvin and Allied Families" Feaster Grave Yard, Fiarfield County, South Carolina, Page 438. "On Grave Monument, Margaret Fry Cooper, departed this life the 10th of October 1823, age 95 years, a native of Philadelphia, (Widow when he married her)."