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ROBERTS, Sergeant Thomas III

ROBERTS, Sergeant Thomas III

Male 1633 - 1703  (70 years)

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  • Name ROBERTS, Thomas  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] 
    Title Sergeant 
    Suffix III 
    Birth 1633  Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 6, 8] 
    Gender Male 
    Differentiator Said to have come with the Hiltons; probable as he was a fellow member of the Fishmonger's Co in London with the Hiltons 
    Name Thomas Roberts 
    Residence Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Residence Between 1635 and 1717  New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Residence 1648  Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Death 1703  Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 6] 
    Burial Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Person ID I4056  My Genealogy | Laviolette Ancestry, Laviolette Ancestry
    Last Modified 4 Feb 2024 

    Father ROBERTS, Governor Thomas,   b. 1600, Woolaston, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Sep 1673, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother HILTON, Rebecca,   b. 1602, Monkwearmouth, Durham, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Sep 1674, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 1627  Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1225  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family LEIGHTON, Mary,   b. Abt 1644, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1705, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1660  Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Children 
    +1. ROBERTS, John,   b. 1671, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Jul 1756, Rollinsford, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     2. ROBERTS, Nathaniel,   b. 1668, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1756, Somersworth, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     3. ROBERTS, Lydia,   b. 1666, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1731, Somersworth, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     4. ROBERTS, Sarah,   b. 1679, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1740, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +5. ROBERTS, Joanna,   b. 1673, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Oct 1729, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 56 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     6. ROBERTS, Mary,   b. 1655, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1745, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 90 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +7. ROBERTS, Thomas,   b. 1656, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1735, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     8. ROBERTS, Harriet Mary,   b. 19 Sep 1675, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1745, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F1128  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Feb 2024 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1633 - Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - - Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Between 1635 and 1717 - New Hampshire, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1648 - Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - Abt 1660 - Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 1703 - Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 
    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Photos
    Photo taken at First Settlers Burial Ground Thomas Roberts burial site
    Historic Dover Point Map w Family
    Thomas
    Trees on Roberts Property 1
    Photo taken at First Settlers Burial Ground Thomas Roberts burial site
    Photo taken at First Settlers Burial Ground Thomas Roberts burial site
    Historic Map of Dover Point

  • Notes 
    • In 1640 Thomas Roberts succeeded Capt John Underhill as the fourth Governor of the Dover colony. Roberts served until the Massachusetts Bay colony achieved its ambition of annexing, in 1642, the Piscataqua River settlements, Dover, Strawberry Bank and Exeter, also Hampton, and making them a part of Norfolk County.

      He had a leading part in the formation and establishment, in 1640, of “The Dover Combination,” an improved scheme of local self-government. He was one of 21 of the 42 signers of the Combination agreement in 1641, a protest against annexation to Massachusetts.

      Gov Roberts was not of Puritanic mold. He possessed a liberality of thought which led him 20 years later to embrace the teachings of the Quaker missionaries, who had come here early in the ‘60s, and secured a following from among the orthodox Church people, only to be driven out of Dover in mid-Winter under harrowing conditions in accordance with Massachusetts laws against Quakers.

      While he sympathized with the missionaries and was fined by being deprived of his cow for attending their meetings and staying away from public worship, his two sons, John and Thomas, both constables, zealously executed their appointed part of Massachusetts’ order expelling the missionaries from its jurisdiction.

  • Sources 
    1. [S1259] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).

    2. [S1280] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), Source number: 23977.002; Source type: Pedigree chart; Number of Pages: 3.

    3. [S1744] Noyes, Libby and Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, (Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society;), Pg 589, entries for Thomas Roberts (11), Sergt. Thomas Roberts (12), and John Roberts (5).

    4. [S1750] Ancestry.com, Historical memoranda concerning persons and places in old Dover, N.H, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT; Date: 2004;).
      Historical memoranda concerning persons and places in old Dover, N.H.      		 Historical memoranda concerning persons and places in old Dover, N.H.


    5. [S1749] Ancestry.com, New Hampshire Probate Records, 1635-1753, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2003;).
      New Hampshire Probate Records, 1635-1753      		 New Hampshire Probate Records, 1635-1753


    6. [S1706] Heritage Consulting, Millennium File, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2003;).

    7. [S1745] Ancestry.com, New Hampshire, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 1999;).

    8. [S1678] Ancestry.com, U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), Genealogical Publishing Co.; Baltimore, MD, USA; Volume Title: New England Marriages Prior to 1700.
      U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700      		 U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700



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