REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION ABSTRACT OF APPLICATION - GEORGE ROBARDS

Contributed by: A Mercer County Volunteer


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Name: ROBARDS, GEORGE
Pension #: S31339
State: VA
Age: NA
Ap Date: 09 Aug 1832
ROBARDS, GEORGE: Applied in Mercer Co., Ky., ..he entered service 4 Feb 177- 
from Goochland Co., Va. ..seved as Orderly Sergeant..later as Quatermaster 
Sergeant later Clerk to the Commissary Department..ended the ARW as a Capt.

Affiant 1: Robards, Jesse
Jesse Robards: States in Mercer Co., Ky on 9 Aug 1832..he remembers George 
Robards being in the regualr service for 3 years and then in the militia. Jesse 
Robards in the brother of George Robards a resident of Garrard Co., Ky.

Affiant 2: Robards, Joseph
Joseph Robards: 1832.. a resident of Breckenridge Co., Ky age 66 years. I was 
living with my father at the time George Robards was in the ARW,,after his 
service he his brother William Robards entered the militia sometime in 1780 in 
the same county..after he returned from the last southern services he commanded 
a part of his neighbors against the refuges a company of refuges were at my 
father's house he had to keep his brother hid out..during the whole time George 
Robards served I was a member of the family he served 4 ot 5 years.

Affiant 3: Bradshaw, Claibourn
Cailbourn Bradshaw: 1832..of Mercer Co., Ky., I served with George Robards I 
know he was a Quartermaster Clerk of the Commissary..

Affiant 4: Houchins, Edward
Edward Houchins: I recollect George Robards, lived as neighbor to him for 6 
months at the time of the war. I was a private under sd Robards, then a Lieut.

Other 1: Robards, William
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