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  • Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Lydia Harmon, 1755-1836, wife of Joseph Waterhouse of Standish, Maine (Boston, Stanhope Press, 1924), 25-29 (Roberts) including 27-29 (child list); digital images, HathiTrust.
  • Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Water Goodwin Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Portland, Maine, Southworth Press [originally in 5 parts, paginated consecutively], 1928-1938; rpt, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012),
  • 589-590 (14-William Roberts, Oyster River); digital images, InternetArchive (borrow).
  • 192 (1-Salathiel Denbo, born about 1642); digital images, InternetArchive (borrow).
  • 633 (1-_____ Sias); digital images, InternetArchive (borrow).
  • 633 (3-John Sias [1], Oyster River); digital images, InternetArchive (borrow).
  • 558 (11-William Pitman, blacksmith, Oyster River); digital images, InternetArchive (borrow), especially for daughter "Ann (presum.), of Wells, m. (Me. ct. Jan. 1698-9), John Sias"; and "In 1657 he liv. on land of Wm. Roberts who deeded to him and s. Ezekiel n 1664, giving rise to suppos. that the w. Ann was a Roberts, but Wm. had no such daughter."
  • 283 (6-William Graves, aged about 60 in August 1685); digital images, InternetArchive (borrow), especially for his first marriage, before October 1680, to Elizabeth, the widow of Richard York; Graves married (2) the widow of Salanthiel Denbo.
  • 211 (2-Nicholas Dunn, tailor); digital images, InternetArchive (borrow).
  • 63 (14-Thomas Allen); digital images, InternetArchive (borrow).
  • 310 (2-John Harmon, Wells, Scarboro); digital images, InternetArchive (borrow).
  • 330 (22-William Hill, Oyster River, +/- 34 1680, the same day that [5-John Hill] depos. ag. +/- 55); digital images, InternetArchive (borrow).
  • 167 (13-John Cox, Dover Neck); digital images, InternetArchive (borrow) for "Presum. same m. 22 May 1694, Hannah (Roberts) Hill of Oyster River and was named as abutter in a deed 1703 … Wid. liv. 1720."
  • 210 (Philip Duley, a sailor in Mr. John Cutts service in 1679); digital images, InternetArchive (borrow),
  • 496 (3-Timothy Moses, Dover, traditionally and prob. from Conn.); digital images, InternetArchive (borrow) for "m. 1st by 1700 Mary Jackson (22), m. 2nd after 11 Oct. 1719, Grace (Roberts 14) Duley …"
  • 501 (3-John Muchemore, Oyster River); digital images, InternetArchive (borrow), "1677 ... a warr. issued ag. him and Grace Roberts (14), she a maid to Elizabeth Follett (ag. +/- 50), he a hired man in the same ho. Name and fate of their child unkn. He (Michelmore) was one of the O.R. men deposing ag. Waldron in Apr. 1681 ..."
  • Howard P. Moore, The Descendants of Ensign John Moor of Canterbury, N. H. ([Rutland, Vt., The Tuttle company] 1918), Sias, 46-50 (Sias), 51-54 (Roberts-Pitman); digital images, HathiTrust'.
  • Azariah Boody Sias, The Sias family in America : 1677 to 1952; the first 275 years … ( Orlando, Fla. : Printed by Florida Press, 1952), 5, 16 (chart, "Family Sias Ancestry"); digital images, InternetArchive.
  • Everett S. Stackpole, Winthrop S. Meserve, Lucien Thompson, History of the town of Durham, New Hampshire (Oyster River Plantation) … 2 vols. ([Durham? N.H.] Pub. by vote of the town [1913]),
  • 1:9-10 (19th 10th mo. [16]48, rate at Oyster river); digital images, HathiTrust, Richard York, William Roberts and John Martin are all at Oyster River; "…list shows that twenty-tree out of fifty-three inhabitants of Dover lived at Oyster River."
  • 1:52, 56 (William Roberts … before 1648); digital images, HathiTrust, at 56, "Willam Roberts … was killed by Indians in 1675 … William Pitman … had, perhaps, married Roberts daughter, Ann."
  • 1:85-86 (Wiliam Roberts); digital images, HathiTrust, "Hubbard records that [in 1675] the Indians burned five or six houses at Oyster River and killed two men, William Roberts and his son-in-law … who the son in law was has not been ascertained. Five sons-in-law are mentioned after this date as living, and only five daughters have been found. He had a son, Wlllam Roberts, Jr. … not mentioned anywhere after 1675 … may have been the one who was killed with his father." See related in William Hubbard and Samuel Gardner Drake, The History of the Indian Wars in New England ..., 2 vols. (Roxbury, Mass. : Printed for W.E. Woodward, 1865), 2:116 (William Roberts); digital images, InternetArchive.
  • 2 (Genealogies):318-318 (Roberts); digital images, HathiTrust.
  • 5 : 5 : 1643, fined for mending the stocks
  • 12 January 1645, Darby Field conveyed land at Oyster River to him, "in the use of Thomas Roberts" said situated between land of Matthew Gles and Thomas Stevenson.
  • 6 : 8 mo: 1650, presented for ging to ordinary "in the time of meeting on the 25th of May last."
  • Several other historical records memorialized.
  • George Wadleigh, Notable events in the History of Dover, New Hampshire, from the first settlement in 1623 to 1865 (Dover, N.H. 1913),
  • 34 (9 July 1651, William Roberts presented); digital images, InternetArchive.
  • 46-47 (10 October 1659, among many others, both William Roberts and Thomas Roberts convicted and punished for not "going to meeting"); digital images, InternetArchive.
  • 49-50 (17 July 1660, William Roberts among those to hear disputes between Dover Neck and Oyster River); digital images, InternetArchive.
  • 78 (September 1675, homes at Oyster River burned, "William Roberts and his son-in-law killed"; related orders); digital images, InternetArchive.
  • 90 (27 April 1687, rate set for relief of widow Dorothy Roberts …"); digital images, InternetArchive.
  • 326 (Roberts in index); digital images, InternetArchive.
  • John R. Ham, Dover, New Hampshire Marriages, 1623–1823, typescript (Dover, N.H., 1880–1902),
  • 177 (page viewer 185); digital images, navigate from the FamilySearch catalog entry, William Roberts [by hand, ^1] , "killed 1675, and -------, m. early as 1655."
  • 167 (page viewer 174); digital images, navigate from the FamilySearch catalog entry, William Pitman, "b.1632; d. Nov. 1682, of Dover, and Barbara Evans, m. 29 Nov. 1653 in Boston. Ann -----, 2nd wife, m. (2) as early as 1665."
  • 77 (page viewer 84); digital images, navigate from the FamilySearch catalog entry, Graves, William, living in Exeter in 1701, and Elizabeth York, wid. Richard, 2nd wife m. (2) early in 1681, m. (1) -----.
  • 48 (page viewer 55); digital images, navigate from the FamilySearch catalog entry, Denbow, Salathiel, b. 1642, and -----, m. -----
  • 48 (page viewer 55); digital images, navigate from the FamilySearch catalog entry, Denbow, Richard, living in 1738, and Mary Bunker, m. in 1705. Was not this a second marriage: I think his first wife was a dau. of Wm. Roberts, kiled 1675, and mother of Salathiel below. [GJ Notes apparent generational confusion.]
  • 48 (page viewer 55); digital images, navigate from the FamilySearch catalog entry, Denbow, Salathiel, b. -----, and Rachel Peavey, m. 19 Dec. 1720, by Rev. J. Adams.
  • Edith (Bartlett) Sumner, Ancestry of Edward Wales Blake and Clarissa Matilda Glidden with Ninety Allied Families (Los Angeles, 1948), 211-212 (Roberts); digital images, HathiTrust.

New Hampshire State Papers

Summary These volumes were edited variously by Nathaniel Bouton, Isaac W. Hammond, Albert Stillman Batchellor, Henry Harrison Metcalf, and Otis Grant Hammond; index (in part), Index (downloaded), 51 for William Roberts entries,

  • Roberts, William XIV:372, 385, 497, 505, 517; XV:469, 481, 507; XVI:627; XVII:308; XVIII:512; XXVI:509; XXXI:33, 51, 98, 101, 135, 170; XXXVIII:185; XXXX:10, 49, 55-57, 80, 84, 115, 118, 125, 128, 134, 136, 155, 171, 185, 186, 306, 332, 417, 504
  • Roberts, William Jr. XXXX:27, 248, 261

Pope

Charles Henry Pope, The pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 1623 to 1660 ... (Boston, Mass., C.H. Pope, 1908), 175-176 (William Roberts); digital images, HathTrust.

  • 1643, In court at Strawberry Bank
  • Died before 29 March 1676 (administration granted)
  • 27 August 1677 (estate debts filed)
  • Estate has "claims of William R Jr. and the care of "widow and girl" 18 months past (their names not given)

Savage

James Savage, A genealogical dictionary of the first settlers of New England ..., 4 vols. (Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1860-1862), 3:548 (William Roberts); digital images, InternetArchive.

  • Dover 1645
  • Had a family
  • With son in law, was killed by Indians n 1675
  • Mentions all information from "indefatig. Mr. Quint."

New England Marriages

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Roberts-Unknown by 1655 marriage, New England Marriages prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015), 2:1283 (Roberts); database and digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors for William Roberts (-1676?, 1675?) and Dorothy _____, marriage is "ca 161647/50?, by 1655, Oyster River, N.H.; works consulted as "Harmon Gen. (1920) 11; Harmon Anc. 12, 26, 27; Dover NH Mar. 177; Durham NH 2:318, 319; GDMNH 589; Blake-Glidden 212"

  • Harmon Gen. (1920) 11--Artemas C. Harmon, The Harmon Genealogy, Comprising All Branches in New England (Washington, D.C.: Gibson Bros., 1920). 11; digital images InternetArchive.
  • Harmon Anc. 12, 26, 27--Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Lydia Harmon, 1755-1836, wife of Joseph Waterhouse of Standish, Maine (Boston, Stanhope Press, 1924)
  • Dover NH Mar. 177--John R. Ham, Dover, New Hampshire Marriages, 1623–1823, typescript (Dover, N.H., 1880–1902), 177 (page viewer 185); digital images, navigate from the FamilySearch catalog entry, William Roberts [by hand, ^1] , "killed 1675, and -------, m. early as 1655."
  • Durham NH 2:318, 319--Everett S. Stackpole, Winthrop S. Meserve, Lucien Thompson, History of the town of Durham, New Hampshire (Oyster River Plantation) … 2 vols. ([Durham? N.H.] Pub. by vote of the town [1913]), 2 (Genealogies):318-318 (Roberts); digital images, HathiTrust.
  • GDMNH 589--Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Water Goodwin Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Portland, Maine, Southworth Press [originally in 5 parts, paginated consecutively], 1928-1938; rpt, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012), 589-590 (14-William Roberts, Oyster River); digital images, InternetArchive (borrow).
  • Blake-Glidden 212--Edith (Bartlett) Sumner, Ancestry of Edward Wales Blake and Clarissa Matilda Glidden with Ninety Allied Families (Los Angeles, 1948), 211-212 (Roberts); digital images, HathiTrust.

Sias-Roberts by 1675 marriage, New England Marriages prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015), 2:1374 (Sias); database and digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors, he is _____ Sias; she is _____ Roberts; marriage is 1675, Oyster River; she marries 2 Salathiel Denbo and 3 William Graves; works consulted as "Harmon Anc. 26-7; GDMNH 590, 633."

  • Harmon Anc. 26-7--Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Lydia Harmon, 1755-1836, wife of Joseph Waterhouse of Standish, Maine (Boston, Stanhope Press, 1924)
  • GDMNH 590, 633

Denbow-[Roberts] Sias by 1674 marriage, New England Marriages prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015), 1::441 (Denbow); database and digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors, she married prior, _____ Sias, and 3, William Graves; works consulted as "Dover NH Mar. 48; Durham NH 2:319; Harmon Anc. 26-7; Sv. 2:35; GDMNH 192, 283, 590, 633; Denbo (1935)."

  • Dover NH Mar. 48;
  • Durham NH 2:319;
  • Harmon Anc. 26-7--Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Lydia Harmon, 1755-1836, wife of Joseph Waterhouse of Standish, Maine (Boston, Stanhope Press, 1924)
  • Sv. 2:35;
  • GDMNH 192, 283, 590, 633;
  • Denbo (1935)

Graves-___ [Roberts] (Sias) [Denbo?] 1[6]83-1700 marriage, New England Marriages prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015), 1:650 (Graves); database and digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors, she is his 2nd wife and the widow of Salathiel.

Sias-Roberts/Pitman 1698 marriage, New England Marriages prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015), 2:1374 (Sias); database and digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors, marriage is 1698, by 1700, January 1698/9, Wells, Maine; she is "Anne (Roberts) [Pitman], he is John Sias; works consulted as "Harmon 6; Dover NH Mar. 188; Durham NH 2:307, 323; Davis: Anc. of Lydia Harmon 26; GDMNH 558, 633; Sias 3."

  • Harmon 6--Israel Harmon, Souvenir of the Harmon Reunion at the Residence and Grounds of Charles Rollin Harmon, Aurora, Ohio, Aug. 13, 1896; Special Family Record of Israel Harmon (III) and Frances M. Colley Harmon and Harmon Geneaolgy from John Harmon, First American Harmon of Record (Springfield, Mass.: privately printed, 1911)
  • Dover NH Mar. 188;
  • Durham NH 2:307, 323;
  • Davis:
  • Anc. of Lydia Harmon 26--Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Lydia Harmon, 1755-1836, wife of Joseph Waterhouse of Standish, Maine (Boston, Stanhope Press, 1924)
  • GDMNH 558, 633; Sias 3

Dunn-Roberts c1682/1687 marriage, New England Marriages prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015), 1:482 (Dunn); database and digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors, he is Nicholas Dunn, she is Elizabeth Roberts, m/2 Thomas Allen c1700; location reference is Oyster River; works consulted as "Durham NH 2:157; Dunn Gen. 11; Harmon Anc. 27; GDMNH 211, 590."

  • Durham NH 2:157;
  • Dunn Gen. 11;
  • Harmon Anc. 27--Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Lydia Harmon, 1755-1836, wife of Joseph Waterhouse of Standish, Maine (Boston, Stanhope Press, 1924)
  • GDMNH 211, 590

Allen-Roberts c1700 marriage, New England Marriages prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015), 1:27 (Allen); database and digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors, He is Thomas Allen; she is Elizabeth (Roberts) [Dunn], w. Nicholas; location reference is ?Durham, N.H.; works consulted, "

  • GDMNH 63, 211, 590;
  • Wentworth 1:186."

Harmon-Roberts by 1681 marriage, New England Marriages prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015), 1:27 (Allen); database and digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors, he is John Harmon; she is Sarah [Roberts]; location references are Oyster River, N. H., Wells, Maine; works consulted as "Harmon Anc. 12; Harmon Gen. (1920) 11; Durham NH 2:319; GDMNH 310, 590."

  • Harmon Anc. 12--Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Lydia Harmon, 1755-1836, wife of Joseph Waterhouse of Standish, Maine (Boston, Stanhope Press, 1924)
  • Harmon Gen. (1920) 11--Artemas C. Harmon, The Harmon Genealogy, Comprising All Branches in New England (Washington, D.C.: Gibson Bros., 1920);
  • Durham NH 2:319;
  • GDMNH 310, 590

Hill-Roberts by 1669 marriage, New England Marriages prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015), 2:757 (Hill); database and digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors, he is William Hill; she is Hannah [Roberts], m/2 John Cox 1694; location reference is Oyster River; works consulted "TAG 30:161; Harmon Anc. 28; Harmon Gen. (1920) 11; Durham NH 2:213, 319; Kittery 515; GDMNH 330, 590."

  • TAG 30:161;
  • Harmon Anc. 28--Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Lydia Harmon, 1755-1836, wife of Joseph Waterhouse of Standish, Maine (Boston, Stanhope Press, 1924)
  • Harmon Gen. (1920) 11--Artemas C. Harmon, The Harmon Genealogy, Comprising All Branches in New England (Washington, D.C.: Gibson Bros., 1920);
  • Durham NH 2:213, 319;
  • Kittery 515;
  • GDMNH 330, 590

Cox-Roberts 1694 marriage, New England Marriages prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015), 2:757 (Hill); database and digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors, he is John Cox, she is Hannah (Roberts) Hill (-1720+); marriage is 22 May 1694' locatin is Oyster River; works consulted as "Dover NH Mar. 38; Durham NH 2:213, 319; GDMNH 167, 590; Cox (1899+) 54; Harmon Anc. 11, 28."

  • Dover NH Mar. 38;
  • Durham NH 2:213, 319;
  • GDMNH 167, 590;
  • Cox (1899+) 54;
  • Harmon Anc. 11, 28--Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Lydia Harmon, 1755-1836, wife of Joseph Waterhouse of Standish, Maine (Boston, Stanhope Press, 1924)

Duley-Roberts c1682/1683? marriage, New England Marriages prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015), 2:757 (Hill); database and digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors, he is Philip Duley/Dooley, she is Grace [Roberts] married 3, Timothy Moses; location reference is Dover; works consulted as "Dover NH Mar. 56; Durham NH 2:165, 319; Harmon Gen. (1920) 11--Artemas C. Harmon, The Harmon Genealogy, Comprising All Branches in New England (Washington, D.C.: Gibson Bros., 1920)

  • Dover NH Mar. 56;
  • Durham NH 2:165, 319;
  • Harmon Gen. (1920) 11--Artemas C. Harmon, The Harmon Genealogy, Comprising All Branches in New England (Washington, D.C.: Gibson Bros., 1920);
  • Harmon Anc. 28--Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Lydia Harmon, 1755-1836, wife of Joseph Waterhouse of Standish, Maine (Boston, Stanhope Press, 1924)
  • GDMNH 210;
  • Salem Press 1:75

Note: Moses-Jackson (first wife?) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/rd/21175/1067/426897121

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