When Benjamin Roberts was born in 1726, in Colchester, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Cornelius Roberts, was 35 and his mother, Dorcas Gillett, was 37. He married Sybil Coleman on 14 March 1754, in Colchester, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 23 April 1770, in his hometown, at the age of 44, and was buried in Colchester Burying Ground, Colchester, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.
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English: from the personal name Robert , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also occasionally borne by Jews, presumably as an Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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