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John R. Rivers
John Rivers, the son of John Rivers of Abbeville County, South Carolina and Edgefield County, was born 1760. He was a Revolutionary War Soldier from Edgefield County who settled in Richmond County, Georgia about 1795. His name appears on the Georgia Muster Rolls as a Pvt. under Colonel Samuel Elbert, 2d Continental Georgia Battalion, certified by said Colonel Elbert on August 18, 1785.
Source: The Georgians by Jeannette Holland Austin, pp. 304-306, Rivers genealogies