Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Roberts, Josiah
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Warminster Township


   JOSIAH ROBERTS farmer, P.O. Breadyville, is of Scotch and 
German extraction, the first of the name who came to this 
country being Joseph Roberts, who settled in Wrightstown 
township. He brought up a family of ten children:  Joseph, 
Israel, Stacy, Phineas, Jonathan, Sarah, Lettisha, John, 
James and Jane. He was a farmer and lived there until his 
death, nearly seventy years ago. His son Phineas, now 
deceased, was the father of our subject, and was born in 
Wrightstown township in 1780, and died in 1852. He worked 
on the farm in his youth, and afterward learned the trade of 
a wheelwright, at which he worked for many years, when he 
purchased a farm in Newtown township, on which he lived 
until his death. He was a thorough business man, and bore an 
excellent character among all who knew him, and by industry 
he had accumulated a competence. His wife was Jane Slack, 
who was born in Lower Makefield township in 1787, and died 
in 1875. Her grandfather was one of three brothers who came 
from Germany, and settled in this county. She was a worthy 
mate of her husband, a good wife and mother. They had five 
children:  Joseph and Lewis were the oldest, and both are 
deceased; and Ephraim, born 2nd mo., 14th, 1828; Edward, 
born 8th mo., 20th, 1830; and Josiah was born 7th mo., 27th, 
1835, and was brought up to farming, and after leaving the 
public schools attended the Newtown classical academy, the 
Strasburg classical academy in Lancaster county, and other 
institutions, receiving a good education, which for a short 
time he utilized by teaching school in this state and in 
Ohio. In 1862 he began farming for himself on the 
homestead farm, which he sold five years later and bought a 
farm in Northamtpon township, on which he lived eight years. 
 He sold this place and removed to Pineville, in Wrightstown 
township, selling there at the end of the year, when he 
bought a farm in Northampton township, on which he stayed 
nine years, and then bought the place at Breadyville, where 
he now lives, and on which he has erected a fine substantial 
house, with all improvements, is there enjoying the fruits 
of a life of industry and care. On December 1, 1864, he was 
married to Miss Wilhelmina T. Worthington, who was born in 
Buckingham township, February 13, 1837. To their union two 
children have been born, one of whom died in infancy. The 
survivor is Anna S., who lives with her parents. Mr. 
Roberts has always given all his attention to his business, 
never entering into public affairs. He and his wife, like 
their ancestors, are Friends.