Govenor Thomas Roberts ¹

  General Notes:

Summary:
Thomas Roberts headstone was located at the far rear of the cemetery. There were numerous stones for other Roberts.

This headstone appears to be a replacement for one that was probably broken or illegible.

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Colonial Governor of Dover New Hampshire. Inscription on stone reads: "Pioneer settler at Dover Point with Edward Hilton - 1623. Colonial Governor of Dover 1640 - 1643".
He married Rebecca Hilton in 1627-1628 in Dover NH.She died 27 sep 1673, in Dover NH. She was the daughter of Mark-Roger Hilton.His daughter Sarah Roberts (1643-1692) married Richard Rich (1635-1690).

drowned at Hilton Point

Thomas married Rebecca Hilton, daughter of Capt. Mark Roger Hilton and Ellen Mainwaring, about 1626 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire, USA. (Rebecca Hilton was born in 1602 in Monkwearmouth, Metropolitan Borough of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, died on 27 Sep 1673 in Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire, USA and was buried in Kings Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA.)