Priscilla Roberts

Brief Life History of Priscilla

When Priscilla Roberts was born on 26 May 1783, in Frederick, Maryland, United States, her father, Robert Morgan Roberts, was 40 and her mother, Mary Ann Richford, was 38. She married James Chess in 1802, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 28 May 1866, in Ash Grove Township, Iroquois, Illinois, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Old Chess Cemetery, Milford, Iroquois, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Chess
1777–1839
Priscilla Roberts
1783–1866
Marriage: 1802
Thomas Chess
1802–1867
Elisabeth Ann Chess
1804–1881
Ellenor B Chess
1808–1852
James Chess Jr
1811–1879
Robert Roberts Chess
1816–1871

Sources (7)

  • Prescilla Chess in household of Robert Chess, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Priscilla Roberts Chess, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994: Robert Roberts.

World Events (8)

1786 · Shays' Rebellion

Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.

1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.

The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

Name Meaning

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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