Peter Stozier may have been born in Germany as Johan Peter Ströher in about 1740. If that was the case, he would have arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the Patience on September 9, 1751 as a Palatine immigrant along with his parents and siblings. Regardless of his origins, on October 1758 he married Margaret Dozier in Rowan County, North Carolina. The couple had at least seven children together. Prior to the American Revolution, the Stroziers moved to Wilkes County, Georgia, where he later enlisted in the local county militia in 1779. Peter Strozier served in a cavalry unit under the command of General Elijah Clark and only rarely visited his home and family over the next two years, as Wilkes County had become a loyalist stronghold. He saw combat at the Battle of Kettle Creek in 1779 and at the Battle of King's Mountain in 1780 and spent much of his time in South Carolina on scouting patrols. When British sympathizers destroyed the Stroziers' homestead during the winter of 1780-81, Margaret brought her children through South Carolina to the Patriot army in North Carolina, where Peter could help support them. Peter Strozier continued in service until the war's end, when they returned to Wilkes County, Georgia. He died in Wilkes County, Georgia of "bilious fever" on January 18, 1807.