Edmund Quincy Roberts (1784 - 1836)

Born 29 Jun 1784 in Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States

Descendants

Died 12 Jun 1836 at age 51 in Macao, China

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Biography

• Edmund was born in 1784. He died in 1836 at the age of 51.

• Edmund Roberts, of Portsmouth, was Envoy of the United States Government and negotiated the first treaty between this country and Siam and Cochin China. The journal of his travels in remote Eastern lands, at that time almost unvisited, was published after his death, which took place in 1837, while abroad on public business.^[1]

• Accomplished American diplomat to various Asian countries, including Siam (Thailand), Cochin-China (southern Vietnam), Japan, and Muscat (Oman).

Sources

1. ↑ "History of Essex County, Massachusetts", by Duane Hamilton Hurd, Ed., Published in 1888, page 758

• Edmund is buried at the Proprietors Burying Ground in Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA. His page lists and has links to his parents, spouse, children. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122721702/edmund-quincy-roberts

• Capt. Edmund Quincy Roberts: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KCSB-75Z Lists his parents, sibling, spouse, 11 children, 28 sources/notes.