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Thomas Roberts

Male Abt 1600 - 1674  (~ 74 years)


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  • Name Thomas Roberts  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16] 
    Born Abt 1600  Woolaston, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Baptism 22 Nov 1612  St. James's Clerkenwell, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 29 Apr 1622 
    Fishmonger, London, England 
    Immigration 1623  Sailed out of Plymouth to Portsmouth aboard the "Providence" with Edward and Rebecca Hilton Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 1623 
    Founding English colonial settler of New England in America 
    Residence 1623  Plymouth, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 1625 
    Settled in Dover Colony (New Hampshire) with William and Edward Hilton 
    Occupation 1638 
    President of the Court in Dover (named Bristol in 1633 by Captain Thomas Wiggin and changed to Dover in 1637 by the governor, Rev. George Burdett) 
    Religion 1639 
    Member of the First Church in Dover (renamed Northam by the preacher Thomas Larkham) 
    Occupation 4 Mar 1640 
    Signed the explanatory letter of Dover inhabitants who objected to coming under the Government of Massachusetts 
    Occupation Apr 1640 
    County President (Governor) of Dover Colony (until 10-22-1641) 
    Occupation 22 Oct 1641 
    Massachusetts annexed Dover (formally incorporated under that name) 
    Occupation 5 Jul 1643 
    Sued Thomas Withers for beating his son at court 
    Occupation 3 Jun 1646 
    Represented the interests of Sir Ferdinando Gorges as commissioner against Massachusetts 
    Occupation 1643, 1646 & 1656 
    Served on the Dover grand jury 
    Occupation 19 Dec 1660 
    Massachusetts Governor John Endecott petitions the King concerning "the open blasphemies of the Quakers, and their incorrigible contempt of authority" 
    Occupation 1661 
    Fined by the town of Dover for missing meetings during 13 days and ordered to forfeit a cow 
    Occupation 1662 
    His sons John and Thomas Jr., (Dover constables) were charged by Massachusetts Bay authorities with ridding the colony of Quakers 
    Occupation 1662 
    John and Thomas Roberts Jr., seized three Quaker women and whipped them as they were being dragged through the winter snow 
    Occupation 1662 
    Publicly rebuked his sons for their harsh treatment of Ann Coleman, Mary Tompkins and Alice Ambrose 
    Will 27 Sep 1673  Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died 1674  Hilton Point River, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Bef 30 Jun 1674  First Settlers Burial Ground (north-east corner), Pine Hill Cemetery, Dover, New Hampshire Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Probate 30 Jun 1674  Dover, Strafford, Province of New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I3645  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Father John Roberts,   b. Abt 1575, Woolaston, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F3338  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 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 
    Children 
     1. Jane Roberts,   b. 1624, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1648, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 24 years)
     2. Hester Roberts,   b. 1626, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Dec 1687, Piscataway, New Jersey, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 61 years)
     3. John Roberts,   b. 1628, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Jan 1695, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years)
     4. Anne Roberts,   b. 1630, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 Dec 1717, Hampton, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 87 years)
     5. Thomas Roberts,   b. 1635, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1704, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years)
     6. Elizabeth Roberts,   b. 1641, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1701, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 60 years)
     7. Sarah Roberts,   b. 1644, Dover, Cochecho, Strafford, New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1692, Eastham, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 48 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F1828  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S196] NEHGR: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts), Vol. 7 (1853), p. 356; Vol. 33 (1879), p. 98 & Vol. 61 (1907), p. 199.
      Thomas Roberts, one of the earliest settlers of Dover, N. H., who married Rebecca Hilton (Vol. 83, 1929, p. 351). Richard Rich was in Dover, N.H., about 1676, died in Eastham, Mass., in 1692, married Sarah Roberts, daughter of Gov. Thomas and Rebecca (Hilton) Roberts (Vol. 113, 1959, p. 153).

    2. [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), 302-304.
      Relates that Thomas Roberts was an apprentice to Edward Hilton (Fishmonger), and came over to join the Hilton's in America where they lived next door to one another in Dover... It is a tradition that Mr. Roberts' wife was a Hilton, sister to Edward and William. There is no record in regard to this matter of matrimony but various corroborating data indicate that such was probably the fact in the relationship of these three men.

    3. [S619] Winthrop's journal: "History of New England", 1630-1649, John Winthrop; Edited by James Kendall Hosmer, (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1908), Volume I, pp. 329-330 & Vol. II, pp. 266-267.

    4. [S101] The History of New Hampshire, edited by John Farmer, Jeremy Belknap, (S. C. Stevens and Ela & Wadleigh, Dover, N.H., 8 February 1831; George Wadleigh, 1862), 25, 30-31 & 47-52.

    5. [S659] History of the town of Durham, New Hampshire (Oyster River Plantation) with genealogical notes, Everett S. Stackpole, Col. Lucien Thompson and Winthrop Smith Meserve, (Published by the vote of the town, Durham, New Hampshire, 1913), Volume 1, pp. 2 & 5-6.
      Thomas Roberts came to Hilton's Point with Edward and William Hilton from London in 1623.

    6. [S184] First Settlers of Ye Plantations of Piscataway and Woodbridge, Olde East New Jersey 1664-1714, Orra Eugene Monnette, (Leroy Carman Press, Los Angeles, California, 1930), Vol. 4, p. 625.

    7. [S199] The Robertses of Northern New England, Thomas A. Jacobsen, (Heritage Books, Bowie, MD, 1995), 21-23.

    8. [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.

    9. [S198] Dover New Hampshire Marriages 1623-1823, John R. Ham, (Dover, NH, 1880-1902, 1904 edition), 177.

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

    11. [S627] Documents and Records related to the Province of New Hampshire from the earliest period of settlement, 1623 to 1686, Nathaniel Bouton, D.D., Corresponding Secretary of the New Hampshire Historical Society, (George E. Jenks, State Printer, 1867), Volume 1, pp. 118-119.

    12. [S740] Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, 1574-1660, Volume 1, Preserved in the Public Record Office. Edited by W. Noël Sainsbury, Esq., (Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, London, 1860), 495.

    13. [S646] Thomas Roberts' will, New Hampshire State Papers, Volume 1, 1635-1717, 31:145-146.

    14. [S180] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Robert Charles Anderson, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1995, 2000), 2047.

    15. [S665] History of the Quakers, William Sewell, (Benjamin Franklin and Hugh Meredith, Burlington, New Jersey, 1728).

    16. [S610] The Whipping of the Quaker Women, Dover Public Library, (73 Locust Street, Dover, New Hampshire, 03820).


  

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