Brief Life History of Joseph
When Joseph Roberts was born in 1645, in Dover Neck, Strafford, New Hampshire, British Colonial America, his father, Thomas Roberts, was 45 and his mother, Rebecca Hilton, was 43. He died on 21 January 1694, in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 49.
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1645 · First Recorded Slave in Portsmouth
In 1645, an African American man taken from Guinea was captured and brought to New Hampshire, he would be counted as the first African American slave in New Hampshire.
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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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