Third Generation


23. John M ROBERTS was born about 1765 in Amherst Co, VA.150,151 He served in the military Private, VA Militia in 1807 in Virginia.176

Lucy WHITE was born (date unknown).

John M ROBERTS-15 and Lucy WHITE-19 had the following children:

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Fountain ROBERTS-20.

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Jeremiah W ROBERTS-21.

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Capt. John E ROBERTS was born about 1795 in Amherst Co, VA. He signed a will on 30 May 1847 in Nelson Co, VA.177 I John E Roberts do make and constitute this instrument of writing as and for my last will.
 
1st  It is my desire that my executor hereafter to be named shall out of the first monies that comes into his hands pay all my just debts and funeral expences(sic).
 
2nd  It is my desire that my brother Fountain Roberts shall receive five hundred dollars in cash out of my estate, which sum my executor is directed to pay him out of the first money that comes to his hands after the payment of my debts.
 
3rd  It is my desire that after the accomplishment of the above named objects, that the whole of my estate both real & personal together with all or any interest I may have in the estate of my deceased father or the estate of my deceased brother Milton T Roberts, shall be equally divided by three commissioners to be appointed by the County Court of Nelson in two parts, and that the children of my deceased brother Jeremiah W Roberts take one of those parts to be equally divided between all of the, and the children of deceased sister Elizabeth Durrett take the other part to be equally divided between all of them and their heirs.
 
Lastly I do appoint Wm Faber executor of this my last will.  Given under my hand this 30th day of May 1847.
Witness                                                              John E Roberts
Wm  L Williams
Robert M Wright
Alex Fitzpatrick                                   A copy teste Ira Garrett CC He died after May 1847 at the age of 52 in Nelson Co, VA.178 John had his estate probated in July 1848 in Nelson Co, VA.177 This day James Alexander personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Albemarle, and made oath that the annexed Notice has been published in the "Jeffersonian Republican" for two months successively. Given under my hand this 28th day of July 1848.
Jno Cochran, JP

STATE OF VIRGINIA
At rules held in the Clerks Office of Albemarle County in December 1847, William Faber, executor of John Roberts, decd Plaintiff against
Fountain Roberts, William B. Harris, guardian of John and Schuyler Roberts, the children of Elizabeth Durrett, viz, Ann, Eliza, Matilda, Margarett, John, Fontaine, Paul Silas and William Durrett.
In Chancery
The Defendants Ann, Eliza, Marietta, Margarett, John, Fontaine, Paul Silas, and William Durrett, children of Elizabeth Durrett, not having entered their appearance and given security according to the Act of Assembly, and rules of this Court and if appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that they are not inhabitants of this State: It is ordered that the said defendants do appear before the Justices of our County Court of Albemarle, at the Court House of the said County, on the first Monday in March next, and answer the Plaintiff's bill and that if copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Jeffersonian Republican a newspaper published in the town of Charlottesville, for two months successively - and that another copy be posted at the front door of the Court House of this County.
John A Garrett, DC
December 16, 1847

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Elizabeth ROBERTS-23.

John M ROBERTS and Matilda Jane HARRIS were married on 21 February 1809 in Nelson Co, VA.170,179 Matilda Jane HARRIS, daughter of William HARRIS and Mary Ann NETHERLAND, was born (date unknown).

John M ROBERTS-15 and Matilda Jane HARRIS-43 had the following children:

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Emily ROBERTS was born in Amherst Co, VA.170

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Milton ROBERTS died before May 1847 in Nelson Co, VA. He was born in Amherst Co, VA.170

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Matilda Jane ROBERTS-67.

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Henry Harris ROBERTS-44.

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Ann Tate ROBERTS was born in 1820 in Nelson Co, VA.170,180 She appeared in the census in 1850 in Nelson Co, VA.180 She appeared in the census in 1860 in Nelson Co, VA.181