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John Roberts

Male 1628 - 1695  (67 years)


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  • Name John Roberts  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
    Born 1628  Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation 1661 
    Surveyor of highways 
    Occupation 1662 
    Charged by Massachusetts Bay authorities with ridding the colony of Quakers 
    Occupation 1662 
    Constable of Dover (Lieutenant) 
    Occupation 1662 
    Seized three Quaker women and whipped them as they were being dragged through the winter snow 
    Occupation 1664-1665 
    Selectman 
    Occupation 1668 
    Selectman 
    Occupation 1668 
    Surveyor of highways 
    Occupation 1670 
    Marshal of the province 
    Occupation 1673-1674 
    Selectman 
    Occupation 1677 
    Selectman 
    Occupation 1683 
    Served on the grand jury 
    Occupation 1692 
    Served on the grand jury 
    Died 21 Jan 1695  Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I10572  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Father Thomas Roberts,   b. Abt 1600, Woolaston, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1674, Hilton Point River, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 74 years) 
    Mother Rebecca Hilton,   b. Abt 1602, Northwich, Cheshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1671, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 69 years) 
    Married 1623  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1828  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Abigail Nutter,   b. 1635, Fillongley, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1674  (Age 40 years) 
    Married 1650  Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F5453  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S196] NEHGR: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts), Vol. 7 (October 1853), p. 356 & Vol. 33 (January 1879), p. 98.
      Also Torrey's New England Marriages to 1700, Vol. 2, p. 1282.

    2. [S25] The Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin Davis, (Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1928-1939, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1972), 589.

    3. [S202] Piscataqua Pioneers, 1623-1775: Register of Members & Ancestors, John Scales, (Higginson Book Company, Press of Charles F. Whitehouse, Dover, N.H., May 1919), 140.

    4. [S194] History of Dover, New Hampshire: Containing Historical, Genealogical and Industrial Data of Its Early Settlers, John Scales, (City Councils, Manchester, New Hampshire, 1923, Heritage Books, Inc., 1977), 305 & 315.

    5. [S199] The Robertses of Northern New England, Thomas A. Jacobsen, (Heritage Books, Bowie, MD, 1995), 25-26.

    6. [S205] The Wentworth Genealogy: England and America, John Wentworth, LL. D., (Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1878), Volume 1, p. 503.

    7. [S61] New England marriages prior to 1700, Clarence Almon Torrey, (Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., Baltimore, 1985), 628.