History of Branch county, Michigan, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . JOHN ROBERTS. MRS. JOHN ROBERTS. .JOHN the sole survivor of one of the representative pioneerfamilies of Branch County. He is of Welsh grandfather was an early settler in New Hampshire,and served in the Revolutionary war. His father, FrancisRoberts, was born in New llauipshirc, May 2S, eighteen years of age he left the paternal roof tomark out a path of life, which has been changing andeventful. Jan. 5, 1805, he was married to Lois Lay
History of Branch county, Michigan, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . JOHN ROBERTS. MRS. JOHN ROBERTS. .JOHN the sole survivor of one of the representative pioneerfamilies of Branch County. He is of Welsh grandfather was an early settler in New Hampshire,and served in the Revolutionary war. His father, FrancisRoberts, was born in New llauipshirc, May 2S, eighteen years of age he left the paternal roof tomark out a path of life, which has been changing andeventful. Jan. 5, 1805, he was married to Lois Lay inGeorgia, Vt. In 1811 he took his wife and two childrenin a wagon and journeyed to Upper Canada, a distance ofsix hundred miles, stopping near Coburg, where he wasdrafted as a British subject. Not fancying the idea offighting against his native land, he took an open boat withothers and crossed Lake Ontario, worked in Rochester,N. Y., eighteen months, when he rccrossed the lake, got hisfamily, and crossed to Niagara Co., N. Y. In April, 1813, hepurchased forty acres of land in Hartland township, wherethe immediate sub
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