by sc250v2 | Jan 28, 2026
Richard Pearis: Loyalist Officer and First European Settler of Greenville Richard Pearis was a colonial frontiersman and trader who straddled the cultural and political divides of Revolutionary South Carolina. Through trade licensed by the British government, Pearis...
by sc250v2 | Jan 28, 2026
On June 26th, 1776, Patriot Capt. James McCall and a 30-man detachment from the South Carolina Rangers were sent on a peace mission to the Cherokee Nation. The Rangers were ambushed at Seneca by a party of Native Americans. McCall was captured but later escaped from...
by sc250v2 | Jan 28, 2026
Peter Harris, a Catawba Native American, served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Harris endured a devastating smallpox epidemic at age three, which killed his parents and half of his tribe. He remained in the village for two years before being...
