Joshua ROBERTS 
Joshua was born on July 13th, 1746.1 Joshua's father was Joshua ROBERTS and his mother was Sarah WALLINGFORD. His maternal grandparents were Nicholas WALLINGFORD and Sarah ELITHORP. He had a brother and four sisters, named Thomas, Mary, Hannah, Elizabeth and Lydia. He was the youngest of the six children. He died at the age of 75 on March 19th, 1822 in Brunswick, Cumberland Co., Maine.1 General Notes
From Wallingfords of New England: Somersworth schoolmaster Joseph Taterecords four children for Joshua and Joanna born between 1768 and 1775, with the fourth dying the day she was born. They had ten children in all, and he had one or more additional children by his second wife.
BIOGRAPHY: From Wallingfords of New England: Joshua was made executor of his father's estate in 1772. Joshua was a captain during the Revolutionary War. He entered service in 1777 sa a first lieutenant in Capt. James Libby's Co. of Col. Stephen Evans' Regiment. He lived in Somersworth, New Hampshire and Brunswick, Maine, showing up in the latter place in the 1810 and 1820 censuses.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.10 Oct 1698 in Dover, Strafford Co., New Hampshire d.27 Dec 1771 in Somersworth, Strafford Co., New Hampshire
- b.13 Jul 1746 d.19 Mar 1822 in Brunswick, Cumberland Co., Maine
- b.~ 1601 in Nether Wallop, Hampshire, England d.1633 in Nether Wallop, Hampshire, England
- b.1629 in Nether Wallop, Hampshire, England d.10 May 1682 in At sea off Ivory Coast
- b.1579
- b.02 Jan 1657 in Bradford, Essex County, Massachusetts d.10 May 1682 in Bradford, Essex County, Massachusetts
- b.~ 1610 in London, England d.<15 Jul 1659 in London, England
- b.1636 in Newbury, Essex Co, Massachusetts, USA d.10 May 1682 in Newbury, Essex Co, Massachusetts, USA
- b.~ 1614 in Gloustershire, England d.<09 Nov 1673 in Newberry, Essex, Massachusetts
- b.BET 12 MAR 1680 AND 1681 in Bradford, Essex Co., Massachusetts d.<02 Jul 1727 in Bradford, Essex Co., Massachusetts
- d.21 Jan 1741
- b.16 Jun 1704 in Rowley, Essex Co., Massachusetts d.> 1771
- b.<28 Aug 1681 in Rowley, Essex Co., Massachusetts d.21 Apr 1763 in Bradford, Essex Co., Massachusetts
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Details of Joshua's family with Joanna Wentworth
Details of Joshua's family with Elizabeth Hughes
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