Wallingford/Jarlov Family Trees

Sarah Wallingford was born in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts 16 June 1704.(696) Sarah died after 1771. She was last mentioned in her husband's November 1771 will.

She married Joshua Roberts, probably by 1732. Their first child was born about 1732. Evidence for their marriage exists in various probate documents of her father and her brother Jonathan, as described below.

Joshua was born 11 October 1698.(697) Joshua was the son of Hatevil Roberts and Lydia Roberts. Joshua died 27 December 1771, probably in Somersworth, New Hampshire, at 73 years of age. The diary of Somersworth schoolmaster Joseph Tate says: "Friday Morn Dec. 27th. 1771 Mr. Josha. Roberts of Somersworth Dy'd."(698) On 27 March 1749 Sarah and Joshua Roberts of Dover, N.H. acknowledged receipt from the widow Martha Wallingford (widow of Sarah's brother Jonathan) "£15 in full of ye bond lodged...it being our part or share to fall off to us". Witnesses to the receipt were Samuel Palmer and Thomas Wallingford, the latter likely being Sarah's first cousin once removed, son of John Wallingford and grandson of the emigrant Nicholas.(699) "Sarah alias Roberts" was promised £15 11s in the division of the estate of her father Nicholas in 1736. A bond of her brother Jonathan on 4 July 1737 mentions his "Brother in Law Joshua Robards of Somersworth in right of his wife Sarah".(700)

Joshua had lands in the "new township at the head of Rochester" (probably Milton) wihch he sold shortly before he died. He was among those who signed a petition to set off Somersworth in 1729 and had pew number 13 in the Somersworth Church in 1730.(701)

Their family is included in the records of Somersworth schoolmaster Joseph Tate, made around 1767, and records all of the children below and their birth dates with the exception of Mary, who is not included.(702) Mary is included, however, in individual family records with both of her husbands. The Charles Wallingford genealogy states that Joshua and Mary were twins, both born on 13 July 1748, which is clearly in error.(703) Mary must have been the eldest child as in her father's 1771 will she is mentioned as his daughter Molly deceased, and it mentions her two children, the first of whom was born in 1751. Joshua's will dated 26 November 1771 was proved 11 January 1772 and mentions his wife Sarah, son Joshua (who was made executor), daughters Hannah Foss, Betty Roberts and Lydia Knight, and four grandchildren, children of his deceased children Thomas and Molly.(704)

696. Rowley, MA, VR, Published, p.228 (from town records).
697. Shackford, Wallingford Records, p.25.
698. Tate, Diary, 74:182.
699. Essex County, MA, Probate, 330:397.
700. Ibid., File 28817.
701. Richard P. Roberts, Thomas Roberts of Dover, New Hampshire and His Descendants (Hartford, CT: Manuscript at Dover NH Public Library, Aug. 1998), p.477 (hereafter cited as Roberts Genealogy (1998)).
702. Tate, Diary, 74:39.
703. Wallingford & Murrow, Wallingford Genealogy (1942), p.29.
704. Rockingham County, NH, Probate Abstracts, 1771-99, 2:798.

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