Commemorative biographical record of Hartford County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families . ptized Dec. 24, 1704, who married Sarah Hills,daughter of Ebenezer Hills, Sr. William Roberts,the father, died in 1734 or 1735. Benjamin Roberts, of the second generation inEast Hartford, married Sept. 26, 1730, Dorothy Pit-kin, who was born in 1704, a daughter of Nathanieland Hester (Hosmer) Pitkin. Nathaniel was a sonof William Pitkin, the founder of the family in EastHartford. Mrs. Dorothy ( Pitkin) Roberts
Commemorative biographical record of Hartford County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families . ptized Dec. 24, 1704, who married Sarah Hills,daughter of Ebenezer Hills, Sr. William Roberts,the father, died in 1734 or 1735. Benjamin Roberts, of the second generation inEast Hartford, married Sept. 26, 1730, Dorothy Pit-kin, who was born in 1704, a daughter of Nathanieland Hester (Hosmer) Pitkin. Nathaniel was a sonof William Pitkin, the founder of the family in EastHartford. Mrs. Dorothy ( Pitkin) Roberts diedOct. 5, 1737. and on July 13. 1739. Mr. Roberts mar-ried (second) Jerusha Pratt. The children by thefirst marriage were: Dorothy, born Jan. 2^, 1734-married Lemuel Kingsbury, of Andover: Susannah,born in January, 1736, died Feb. 17, 1804, his marriage with Jerusha Pratt (a descendantof John Pratt, who came to Hartford with theHooker party in 1635), were born: Jerusha andCatherine (twins) were born April 24, 1740: Jeru-sha married Jonathan Stanley, town clerk and treas-urer for eighteen years; Catherine married Jona-than Hubbard, and was the ancestor of Gov. Hub-. COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 685 bard. Benjamin, Jr., born Nov. 15, 1741, was afanner in the south part of East Hartford, and mar-ried Dorothy Goodwin. Sarah, born April 13, 1743,married Joseph Hurlburt. Mary, born Jan. 18, 1745,married Timothy Forbes. William, born Jan. 19,1746, married Abigail Stanley. Nathaniel, born , 1750, married Annie Newcomb. George was bornNov. 22, 1752. Abigail, born in 1756, married JohnNorton, and died Nov. 20, 1775. Lemuel, born in1760, died in 1775. Benjamin Roberts was a man of great energy,and an enterprising business man. He was a mer-chant trader, owning at one time three sloops,Martha, Samuel and Porrige, trading withthe West Indies, and at New London. His house,which was very strongly built and having a goodcellar, must often have been used to store var
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