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State of Service: SC
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
DAR cites FAMPCL - MAIDEN NAME OF PATRIOT'S WIFE MARY IS UNPROVEN. 10/2023.
Author: Ronald Joe Turner
George ROEBUCK
SAR Patriot #: P-280996
George Roebuck, Sr. was born about 1730 at Cumberland County, Virginia. He married Mary Warren about 1753. She was born about 1733 at Orange County, Virginia, and died before 1795 at Spartanburg County, South Carolina. They were the parents of Benjamin (born 1755), George Jr. (born 1757), John (born 1759), Obediah, Frances (born about 1756), Catherine, Sarah, Elizabeth (born 1763), Mary (born 1767), and Rhoda.
Sometime before the beginning of the Revolution, George and Mary moved their family from Orange County, Virginia, to Orange County, North Carolina. By 1777, they had settled on a plantation on the Tyger River at Spartanburg County, South Carolina. The British under Lord Rawdon burnt the Roebuck Plantation home in May of 1781.
After participating in the Battle of Blackstock, George and his son, Colonel Benjamin Roebuck, were captured by Tarleton in 1780 and sent to the British Prison Gaol in Camden, South Carolina. He caught smallpox and died in 1781 while still a British prisoner.
George and Mary are likely buried in unmarked graves in a family grave yard on their plantation at the north bank of the Tyger River near Roebuck, South Carolina.
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