ROBERTS, Sergeant Thomas III
1633 - 1703 (70 years)Set As Default Person
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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 [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 [4] Residence Between 1635 and 1717 New Hampshire, USA [5] Residence 1648 Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA [7] Death 1703 Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA [1, 6] Burial Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA [1] Patriarch & Matriarch HILTON, Rebecca, b. 1602, Monkwearmouth, Durham, England d. 27 Sep 1674, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 72 years) (Mother)Person ID I4056 My Genealogy Last Modified 15 Jul 2024
Father ROBERTS, Governor Thomas, b. 1600, Woolaston, Gloucestershire, England d. 27 Sep 1673, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA (Age 73 years) Relationship natural Mother HILTON, Rebecca, b. 1602, Monkwearmouth, Durham, England d. 27 Sep 1674, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA (Age 72 years) Relationship natural Marriage 1627 Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA Family ID F1225 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family LEIGHTON, Mary, b. Abt 1644, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA d. 1705, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA (Age 61 years) Marriage Abt 1660 Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA [8] Children 1. ROBERTS, John, b. 1671, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA d. 28 Jul 1756, Rollinsford, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA (Age 85 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] ▻ CHURCH, Deborah m. 1 Oct 1704; EMERY, Frances m. 17 May 17202. ROBERTS, Nathaniel, b. 1668, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA d. 1756, Somersworth, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA (Age 88 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 3. ROBERTS, Lydia, b. 1666, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA d. 1731, Somersworth, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA (Age 65 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 4. ROBERTS, Sarah, b. 1679, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA d. 1740, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA (Age 61 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 5. ROBERTS, Joanna, b. 1673, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA d. 11 Oct 1729, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA (Age 56 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] ▻ POTTS, Thomas m. 24 Mar 16896. ROBERTS, Mary, b. 1655, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA d. 1745, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA (Age 90 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 7. ROBERTS, Thomas, b. 1656, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA d. 1735, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA (Age 79 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] ▻ TUCKER, Elizabeth m. 1703; CANNEY, Sarah m. Abt 16878. ROBERTS, Harriet Mary, b. 19 Sep 1675, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA d. 1745, Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire, USA (Age 69 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] Family ID F1128 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 15 Jul 2024
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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.
- 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.
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