Joshua Roberts, 17461822 (aged 75 years)

Name
Joshua /Roberts/
Given names
Joshua
Surname
Roberts
Birth
Type: Birth of Roberts, Joshua
13 July 1746 47 42
Death of a sister
about 1762 (aged 15 years)
Death of a maternal grandmother
State: Massachusetts
Country: United States of America
MARRIAGE OF ROBERTS, JOSHUA AND WENTWORTH, JOANNA
Death of a brother
17 July 1769 (aged 23 years)
Death of a father
State: New Hampshire
Country: United States of America
Death of a mother
after 1771 (aged 24 years)
Death of a wife
1785 (aged 38 years)
MARRIAGE OF ROBERTS, JOSHUA AND HUGHES, ELIZABETH
after 1785 (aged 38 years)
Death of a sister
after 1801 (aged 54 years)
Death
Type: Death of Roberts, Joshua
19 March 1822 (aged 75 years)
State: Maine
Country: United States of America
Family with parents
father
16981771
Birth: 11 October 1698
Death: 27 December 1771Somersworth, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States of America
mother
17041771
Birth: 16 June 1704 24 22 Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States of America
Death: after 1771
MARRIAGE OF ROBERTS, JOSHUA AND WALLINGFORD, SARAH MARRIAGE OF ROBERTS, JOSHUA AND WALLINGFORD, SARAH1732
1 year
elder sister
17321762
Birth: about 1732 33 27
Death: about 1762
4 years
elder sister
2 years
elder sister
4 years
elder brother
17401769
Birth: November 1740 42 36
Death: 17 July 1769
3 years
elder sister
17431801
Birth: 31 July 1743 44 39
Death: after 1801
3 years
himself
17461822
Birth: 13 July 1746 47 42
Death: 19 March 1822Brunswick, Cumberland, Maine, United States of America
Family with Joanna Wentworth
himself
17461822
Birth: 13 July 1746 47 42
Death: 19 March 1822Brunswick, Cumberland, Maine, United States of America
wife
MARRIAGE OF ROBERTS, JOSHUA AND WENTWORTH, JOANNA MARRIAGE OF ROBERTS, JOSHUA AND WENTWORTH, JOANNA8 December 1766
Family with Elizabeth Hughes
himself
17461822
Birth: 13 July 1746 47 42
Death: 19 March 1822Brunswick, Cumberland, Maine, United States of America
wife
MARRIAGE OF ROBERTS, JOSHUA AND HUGHES, ELIZABETH MARRIAGE OF ROBERTS, JOSHUA AND HUGHES, ELIZABETHafter 1785
Private + Elizabeth Hughes
wife’s partner
Private
wife
Shared note

Joshua Roberts was born 13 July 1746.(735) Joshua died 19 March 1822, in Brunswick, Cumberland County, Maine, at 75 years of age.(736) He married twice. He married first, Joanna Wentworth, 8 December 1766.(737) Joanna was born in August 1750.(738) Joanna was the daughter of Mark Wentworth and Elizabeth Wentworth. Joanna died in 1785, at 34 years of age.(739) He married Elizabeth Hughes, after 1785.(740) Elizabeth had previously been married to a man named Nicols.(741) Joshua was made executor of his father's estate in 1772.(742) Somersworth schoolmaster Joseph Tate records four children for Joshua and Joanna born between 1768 and 1775, with the fourth dying the day she was born.(743) They had ten children in all, and he had one or more additional children by his second wife. Joshua was a captain during the Revolutionary War. He entered service in 1777 sa a first lieutenant in Capt. James Libby's County of Col. Stephen Evans' Regiment. He lived in Somersworth, NH and Brunswick, Maine, showing up in the latter place in the 1810 and 1820 censuses.(744)

  1. Tate, Diary, 74:39.
  2. William Edgar Wentworth, Vital Records 1790-1829 from Dover, New Hampshire's First Newspaper (Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1994), p.214 (hereafter cited as Dover, NH, Newspaper VRs).
  3. Roberts Genealogy (1998), p.478 (includes date); and Tate, Diary, 74:39 (no date).
  4. Tate, Diary, 73:312.
  5. Roberts Genealogy (1998), p.478.
  6. Ibid., p.478.
  7. Ibid., p.478.
  8. Rockingham County, NH, Probate Abstracts, 1771-99, 2:798.
  9. Tate, Diary, 74:39.
  10. Roberts Genealogy (1998), p.478.
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