All Patty family trees posted on Ancestry (and there are several) give the year of birth for Charles Patty as 1775. That means he would have been six years old when Cornwallis surrendered in 1781 and eighty-six when Major Anderson surrendered Fort Sumter in 1861. Apparently he died in South Carolina at age eighty-nine in 1864.

Confederate service by a man who actually lived through the American Revolution would be highly noteworthy. Can you or anyone else anyone produce factual documentation of his service in a South Carolina command, militia or Confederate?

If this man had a uniform it might have been one worn by members of a volunteer militia company. Charles Patty would have been thirty-seven when the War of 1812 began. Perhaps he volunteered at that time.

Acording to family trees he married twice, the second time about 1820. Born about 1824, that makes Zorababel Patty a younger half-brother of both Jesse and John W. Patty.