Did William Pitman marry Ann Roberts, daughter of William Roberts? No, probably not. Her name was Ann and that’s all we know. The theory that Ann was the daughter of William Roberts is based on the fact that William Pitman lived on the land of William Roberts rent free for a short period of time. Arguing strongly against this theory is the conveyance of shares in the estate of William Roberts into 1/5th which proves that he only had five heirs. His son was “simple” and died leaving no children. There were four living daughters each of whom received 1/5 shares. The last share whet to his grandchildren who was all children of any unnamed daughter who married 1st John Sias, the elder, 2nd Salathiel Denbow and 3rd William Graves. If William Roberts had another daughter, Ann he would have divided his estate into sixths not fifths!
Who was the wife of William Rogers? Dorothy (Unknown) according to Torrey and many other sources. She was *NOT* Elizabeth Daniels. Elizabeth Daniels was the wife of GEORGE Roberts of Virginia! And this has been conflated and copied from one tree to the next.
If you are interested in these two families here are the sources you need to read. All of these are available online for free or on Ancestry.com:
* Clarance Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, April 2011) Vol 2 p 1374 (“SIAS, John & Anne (ROBERTS) [PITMAN]; 1698, by 1700, Jan 1698/9; Wells, ME {Harmon 6; Dover NH Mar. 188; Durham NH 2:307, 323; Davis: Anc. of Lydia Harmon 26; GDMNH 558, 633; Sias 3}“ [http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/torreys-new-england-marriages-to-1700/image/?volumeId=21175&pageName=1374&rId=426903796 link]
* Clarance Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, April 2011) p 1283 (Listing wife of William Roberts as Dorothy ___) [http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/torreys-new-england-marriages-to-1700/image/?volumeId=21175&pageName=1283&rId=426901838 link]
* Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Lydia Harmon 1755- 1847, Wife of Captain Joseph Waterhouse of Standish, Maine (Boston, MA: Stanhope Press, 1924) p 26 [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005758838 link]
* Azariah Boody Sais. The Sias Family in American 1677 - 1952 The first 275 Years (Orlando, FL, Florida Press, 1952) [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005755993 link]
* Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Vol. 20, Part 1: Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620: Henry Sampson ed Robert S Wakefield (Plymouth, MA: GSMD, 2000) p 75 – 76 (It shows that John Silas 1706 - 1750 married Hannah Sampson 1710 - 1794 (Henry Samson Vol I #90 & p 75 – 76) and that John Silas 1706 - 1750 was the son of John Silas, Sr and Ann Pitman. So we do know that Ann Pitman 1672 - 1698 married John Silas, Sr (say 1672 – 1716)).
* Howard Parker Moore , The Descendants of Ensign John Moor of Canterbury, N. H. Born 1696-died 1786 (Rutland, Vt.: The Tuttle company, 1918) p 53 - 54[https://books.google.com/books?id=yGlGAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=Ann+Roberts+William+Pitman&source=bl&ots=6xUhGjYQsA&sig=1p1i0pwZiqkvSfcOcaXuXAlQwso&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-37iJ1OPLAhUG2mMKHWufBhAQ6AEINTAE#v=onepage&q=Ann%20Roberts%20William%20Pitman&f=false link] alt [https://archive.org/details/descendantsofens1918moor link]
* David Ozro Smith Lowell, A Munsey-Hopkins Genealogy: Being the Ancestry of Andrew Chauncey Munsey and Mary Jane Merritt Hopkins (Boston, MA: Self-published, 1920) p 143 – 145 [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=-PERAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA145 link]
* Artemas Canfield, The Hamon Genealogy Comprising all branches in New England (Washington, DC: Gipson Bros, 1920) p 11 [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066181686;view=1up;seq=25 link]
* Everett Schermerhorn Stackpole, History of the town of Durham NH (Durham, NH) Vol 2 p 307 – 308
* John R Ham, Dover NH Marriages 1623 - 1823 (Dover NH 1880 - 1902) p 167
* Clarance Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, April 2011 (“PITMAN, William (-1682) & 2/ wf. Ann [ROBERTS]?; by 1665, by 1661?; Dover, NH/Durham, NH”) Citing: 1) John R Ham, Dover NH Marriages1623 - 1823 (Dover NH 1880 - 1902) p 167, 2) E.S. Stackpole History of the town of Durham NH (Durham NH) Vol 2 p 307, 3) Artemas C. The Hamon Genealogy Comprising all branches in New England (DC Gipson Bros 1920) p 11, 4) David Ozro Smith Lowell, A * Munsey-Hopkins Genealogy : Being the Ancestry of Andrew Chauncey Munsey and Mary Jane Merritt Hopkins (Boston 1920) p 145
* Edith Bartlett Sumner, Ancestry of Edward Wales Blake and Clarissa Matilda Glidden, with ninety allied families (Los Angelese, CA: Self-published, 1948) p 212 [https://archive.org/details/https://archive.org/stream/ancestryofedward00sumn#page/212/mode/2up link]
* http://dgmweb.net/FGS/S/Sias_-_Roberts.html
* http://dgmweb.net/FGS/R/RobertsWilliam-_.html
* http://dgmweb.net/FGS/S/SiasJohn-SarahAnnPitman.html