Benjamin Roberts (1756 - 1824)

Born 1756 in Kittery, Maine

Ancestors

Husband of Didamia Nickerson — married 27 Dec 1775 in Barnstable, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 21 Mar 1824 at about age 68 in Argyle, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

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Biography

Benjamin was an early settler in Yarmouth Nova Scotia^[1]. His wife was Diadema Nickerson. Their children included:

1. Eunice, born 1777, who married a Spinney^[2]
2. Mercy, born 1781, who married William Whitehouse^[1]
3. Diadema, who married Heman Gardner, the son of Betsey Kenney and Bartlett Gardner^[1]
4. Susannah (possibly, no source yet found), born 1793, who married Benjamin Hobbs
5. Likely others

Benjamin Roberts passed away in 1824.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, genealogies : transcribed from the Yarmouth Herald Author: George Stayley Brown; Publisher: Baltimore, MD : Genealogical Pub. Co., ©1993. Accessed at the Argyle Township Courthouse and Archives, and Ancestry.ca. pages 739 for Betsey Kenney and Heman Gardner (Diadema); 757 for Miriam Frost, the third wife of William Whitehouse (Mercy)
2. ↑ "Canada Deaths and Burials, 1664-1955," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F2PX-FZ5 : 9 March 2018), Benjamin Roberts in entry for Eunice Spinney, 02 Nov 1872; citing Cemetery, Argyle, Yarmouth, reference p78 line224; FHL microfilm 1,298,862.