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Book Title: History Of Durham, Maine

ROBERTS.

   John Roberts of Gloucester, Mass., may have been son of Robert Roberts of
Ipswich, who had a son John born 1646. John of Gloucester married, 4 Feb. 1677,
Hannah, dau. of Thomas Bray, and died 10 Jan. 1714. Of their seven children
Ebenezer was born in 1690. His wife's name was Sarah. They had three children
born before 1721. They moved to Falmouth, Me., before 1727. They had sons
Ebenezer Jr., William, born 18 Mch. 1725 and Vinson, born 8 June 1727. Of these
Ebenezer Jr. married, in 1737, Mary Kinnicum of Gloucester, Mass., and was one
of the first settlers in Royalsborough, on lot 30, where he died in 1805. The
birth of his son William is recorded in Cape Elizabeth, 15 Mch. 1739. It is
probable that Ebenezer's daughters, Anna and Lydia, married John and Stephen
Randall. The following marriages we are unable to classify. Some of them were
probably of this family.

   HANNAH m. 26 Oct. 1789 Joseph Paul.

   MOSES m. 18 Jan. 179S Susannah Harmon.

   EBENEZER JR. m. 1801 Lydia Merrill of Lewiston.

   SUSANNAH m. 14 Nov. 1807 Joseph B. Allen.

   William Roberts, son of Ebenezer, married, 16 Oct. 1777, Susannah Randall and
bought lot 147 of Isaac Randall, 6 Feb. 1787. Isaac Randall received this in the
will of Col. Jonathan Bagley. It is probable that William Roberts had lived
there some years before taking the deed. He died in 1804 and his widow and
children moved to Genesee Co., N. Y., before 1815. The children were.

   CATHERINE b. 10 Nov. 1778; m. 10 Oct. 1797 Thomas Wharff.

   MERCY b. 7 Aug. 1780; d. young.

   SUSANNA b. 15 Jan. 17S2; m. 26 Nov. 1801 James Gerrish.

   SALLY b. 31 Mch. 1784; m. June 20 1806 Kinnecum Roberts of Durham.

  WILLIAM b. 29 Dec. 1787.

  MARY b. 20 Feb. 1791; m. Robert Jones.

  HANNAH CHAPMAN b. 20 May 1793; m. Eldrick Smith.

  BENJAMIN b. 21 Feb. 1795.

  MICHAEL b. 24 June 1797.

  CATHERINE b.  12 Dec. 1799.

   Benjamin Roberts came from Cape Elizabeth and settled near the house where
David Crockett Jr. now lives, on lot 32. He was burned with his house in 1805.
His son, Benjamin Jr., was born at Cape Elizabeth 24 Oct. 1769; m. 11 Aug. 1791
Sarah Paul, who was born in Berwick 28 June 1769. He died in Durham 18 Sept. 1849.

   ELIZABETH b. 26 April 1793.

   SARAH b. 9 Mch. 1795.  Unm.

   ABIGAIL b.  14 July 1797.

   BENJAMIN b. 14 July 1799; d. 29 April 1805.

   HIRAM b. 16 Mch. 1804. Unm.

   PATIENCE b. 4 May 1805.

   NAHUM d. young.

   BENJAMIN P. b. 1 June 1807; m. 1831 Lucy Tyler of Pownal; d. 11 June 1888.
Wife died 4 May 1896, aged 84 yrs. 9 mos. Ch. Nahum, John T., Harriet, Sarah,
Win. Henry, Lucy E., Frank, Mary, and Benjamin F. The last d. in a Hospital in
Virginia 9 July 1865, aged 18 yrs. 8 mos. 17 days. He was a member of Co. C 32d
Me. Regt.

   Vincent (or Vinson) Roberts of Cape Elizabeth married Susanna York in 1772.
She was sister to Samuel and Joseph York. He was one of the earliest settlers of
Durham on lot $2. He afterward moved to near Chandler's mill. No record of his
birth or death has been found.

   JOANNA b. 1 Oct. 1773; m. (1) 12 Jan. 1792 Ezekiel Turner; (2) Samuel Sawyer;
d. 27 Mch. 1858. See portrait.

   SAMUEL YORK b. 3 May 1776; m. 1799 Betsey Plummer.

   JAMES b. 10 Dec. 1779; m. 1802 Sally Turner of Freeport.

   THOMAS m. 4 Dec. 1806 Submit York. Their children were Samuel b. 13 Feb.
1810; Rebecca b. 11 May 1816; True Glidden b. 2 Feb. 1819; Susannah b. 18 May
1822. He married (2) 4 Dec. 1828 Rebecca Skilling of Cape Elizabeth.

   EBENEZER m. 1809 Sally Plummer.

   SUSANNAH m. 16 Oct. 1811 Robert Hunnewell.

   DANIEL b. 16 July 1790. See:
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   REUBEN m. 1817 Sally Goodwin.

   HANNAH (?) m. 12 Mch. 1798 Jacob Sawyer.

   SALLY.

   LEMUEL.


Additional Comments:
Part of Chapter XII.
GENEALOGICAL NOTES

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF DURHAM, MAINE
WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES.

BY EVERETT S. STACKPOLE.

PUBLISHED BY VOTE OF TOWN.

LEWISTON: PRESS OF LEWISTON JOURNAL COMPANY. 
1899.


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