Joseph Roberts

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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Family Time Line

Thomas Roberts
1600–1674
Rebecca Hilton
1602–1673
William Roberts I
1624–1675
Hester Roberts
1628–1687
John Roberts
1629–1695
Ann Roberts
1631–1718
Jane Roberts
1627–1648
Thomas Roberts Jr
1633–1703
Elisabeth Roberts
1641–1690
William Roberts
1642–1734
Sarah Roberts
1643–1692
Joseph Roberts
1645–1694

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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.

    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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