The name Reardon is an important piece in the early history of Georgetown, PA.  A page with a brief biography of John Reardon has been loaded.  And a transcript of his Revolutionary War pension application, JR Pension Transcription, has been loaded to give body to his biography.  The pension application is particularly significant because of the people referenced, such as Ensign Andrew Poe, Simon Girty, and Col William Crawford.  The lives of these important figures of the frontier were intertwined as history was being made.

The Reardon name also identified the land on which Georgetown, PA would be laid out.  The Forgotten Frontier Fort is another significant fragment of that early history.  Putting these pieces together, each into its proper place, the whole picture emerges.

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