Ishmael Roberts b. 1750 Chatham, North Carolina, USA d. 1826 Chatham, North Carolina, USA: The Lost Creek Settlement

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1750 - 1826 (76 years)

Name	Ishmael Roberts [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
Born	1750	Chatham, North Carolina, USA
Gender	Male
Ethnicity	Native American
Tribe	Lumbee
Residence	1765	Lincoln, North Carolina, USA [8]
_MILT	Between 7 Jun 1777 and Jun 1778
_MILT	Colonel Abraham Shepherd's Company at Head Quarters Valley Forge - Revolutionary War
Residence	1780	North Carolina, USA [2]
Residence	Dobbs County
Residence	1782	North Carolina, USA [2]
Residence	Dobbs County Early Tsx List,
Residence	1790	Robeson, North Carolina, USA [3]
Residence	1800	Robeson, North Carolina, USA [3, 4]
Residence	1810	Chatham, North Carolina, USA [5]
Died	1826	Chatham, North Carolina, USA [7]
Probate	12 Jul 1826	Chatham, North Carolina, USA [7]
Reference Number	1723
Person ID	i1723	Families

Mother	Margaret Roberts, b. 1725, Northampton, North Carolina, USA , d. 1789, Northampton, North Carolina, USA (Age 64 years)
Relationship	natural
Family ID	F1255	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Ishmael Roberts, b. 1750, Chatham, North Carolina, USA , d. 1826, Chatham, North Carolina, USA (Age 76 years)

Children

	1. Zachariah Roberts, b. 1782 [natural]
	2. Kinchen Roberts, b. Abt 1785, Virginia, USA , d. 30 Jun 1870, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA (Age ~ 85 years) [natural]
	3. Mary Polly Roberts, b. Abt 1790, North Carolina, USA , d. 25 Jul 1876, Vigo, Indiana, USA (Age ~ 86 years) [natural]
	4. Jonathan Roberts, b. 1784, North Carolina, USA [natural]
	5. Elizabeth Roberts, b. 1788, d. USA [natural]
	6. Benjamin F. Roberts, b. 1792, North Carolina, USA , d. 5 Jul 1880, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA (Age 88 years) [natural]
	7. Elias Roberts, b. 1793, North Carolina, USA , d. 31 Jul 1866, Orange, Indiana, USA (Age 73 years) [natural]
	8. Aaron Roberts, b. Abt 1794, North Carolina, USA , d. Washington, Owen, Indiana, USA [natural]
	9. Margaret Roberts, b. Bef 1800, Robeson, North Carolina, USA [natural]
	10. Pardon Boin "Bowen" Roberts, b. 1800, North Carolina, USA [natural]
	11. James Roberts, b. 1800, North Carolina, USA [natural]
	12. Richard Roberts, b. 1802, North Carolina, USA , d. Yes, date unknown [natural]
	13. Delphy Roberts, b. Abt 1807, North Carolina, USA [natural]
	14. Ethelred Roberts, b. Abt 1780, North Carolina, USA , d. Orange, Indiana, USA [natural]
	15. Lewis Roberts, d. USA [natural]
	16. Rebecca Roberts, d. USA [natural]

Family ID F292 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Event Map

	Born - 1750 - Chatham, North Carolina, USA
	Residence - 1765 - Lincoln, North Carolina, USA
	Residence - Dobbs County - 1780 - North Carolina, USA
	Residence - Dobbs County Early Tsx List, - 1782 - North Carolina, USA
	Residence - 1790 - Robeson, North Carolina, USA
	Residence - 1800 - Robeson, North Carolina, USA
	Residence - 1810 - Chatham, North Carolina, USA
	Died - 1826 - Chatham, North Carolina, USA
	Probate - 12 Jul 1826 - Chatham, North Carolina, USA

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Census
1790 U.S. Census - Robeson, North Carolina
Series: M637; Roll: 7; Page: 147; Image: 429;

Notes

ROBERDS/ROBERTS In what may have been the first act of violence by a
Lumbee Indian in current Robeson County, James Roberts shot James
McCullam five times 29 Jan. 1754, in S1. Martin's Parish, Bladen County.
The murder came to court I Feb. 1754 (Secretary of State, Committee of
Claims, Coroner's Inquests, 1738-1775, SS 316, N.C. Archives). Reuben
Roberts of Bladen sold two tracts of 310 acres north and northeast of
Drowning Creek to Thomas Owen 6 July 1773 (Deed Book B, 29-30). He
lived near Soloman James and Richard Smith. Ishmael Roberts, probably
Lumbee, was living on Saddletree Swamp near Jacob Blount, Phillip Blount,
Robert Willis, John Baggett and Thomas Ivey before 12 July 1788 (Deed
Book A, 282-283). He bought 185 additional acres from Lewis Jenkins 15
Oct. 1790 east of Saddletree Swamp (B, 166-168). He appears on Saddletree
Swamp in the 1790 census. Ishmael patented 100 acres east of Raft Swamp
adjacent to fellow Lumbee Thomas Jackson, Lewis and Edward Jenkins 26
Nov. 1789 (B, 314, H, 109-110). Two Roberts families, Sampson and
Etheldred, age 55-100, and both Mulatoe were in the 1830 census of
Robeson. Several families named Roberts, all listed as mulatto, appear near
each other in the 1850 census close to the Lumbee families of Hammonds,
Revels, Briant, Jacobs and Chavis. All six families were listed as mulatoe.
Roberts was listed as an Indian name in Lumberton e township in the 1870
census of Robeson. The name was self-identified as Indian in the 1900
Census of Robeson. One family was listed in the 1900 Indian Census
Schedule in Robeson County. Lucy Roberts Harris, daughter of White Troy
Roberts Jr. of Lumberton, came from an affluent family. Her brother, Larry
Roberts, was a longtime police chief in Pembroke. Roberts was listed as
Indian in the 1930 census of Pembroke Township. Death records show the
Indian name of Roberts in 1916 in Lumberton and Pembroke townships.
They were related to the Oxendine and Smith families. See Native Visions,
Lumberton, N.C., August, 2005, for Lumberton family of Roberts. Cited at
Deep Branch Cemetery and New Bethel Methodist Church cemetery,
Fairmont, by Jane Blanks Barnhill, Sacred Grounds, 2007, a listing of 162
Lumbee cemeteries of Robeson County.
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Ishmael1 Roberts, born say 1755, was head of a Robeson County household of 10 "other free" in 1790 [NC:50], 15 in 1800 [NC:415], and 14 in Chatham County in 1810 [NC:195]. He received pay for Revolutionary War service from 3 June 1777 to 3 June 1778 as a private in Colonel Abraham Shepherd's Company. Colonel Shepherd gave him a certificate which stated that he was furloughed at Head Quarters Valley Forge to come home with me who was Inlisted in my Regement for the Term of three years - and Returned Home with me [NCGSJ XV:105]. He entered 100 acres in Robeson County on the north side of Saddle Tree Swamp on 5 September 1787, 100 acres on the north side of Five Mile Branch and 100 acres on the east side of Raft Swamp on 14 February 1788, and 100 acres on the west side of Five Mile Branch on 22 January 1793 [Pruitt, Land Entries: Robeson County, I:7, 13, 70]. He sold land by deed proved in Robeson County on 5 January 1801 and purchased land by deed proved in Robeson County on 6 July 1803 [Minutes I:130, 256]. On 18 February 1804 he purchased two tracts of land in Chatham County, one of 250 acres on Bear and Bush Creeks for $450, a second of 100 acres on the waters of the Cape Fear River for $150, and he purchased a further 57 acres on Bush Creek for 75 pounds on 9 January 1805 [DB N:456, 437; M:641]. The sheriff sold 260 acres of this land on 12 February 1808 for a debt of about 16 pounds [DB P:118]. However, Ishmael repurchased this same 260 acre tract for about 17 pounds on 14 August 1811. And he purchased 102 acres on Little Lick Creek on 10 April 1818 [DB S:26; V:131]. On 8 and 12 February 1825 he sold (signing) most of his land to his sons: Richard, James, and Aaron [DB AB:166, 221; AA:275]. By his 12 July 1826 Chatham County will, he left his land on the west side of Bush Creek to his wife Silvey and then to his grandson Ishmael, oldest son of Zachariah. He also left one dollar to a list of persons, no relationship stated (who were identified as his children in his May 1829 Estate Papers), and he willed that his land where John Archie (Archer, his son-in-law) was living was to be sold and divided among his wife and a second list of persons (which included members of the first list), no relationship stated, and left $20 for the schooling of his grandson Thomas Roberts [CR 022.801.16]. When the will was offered for probate in the Tuesday, May 1827 session of the Chatham County court, the jury ruled that it was his will as regards his personal property but not as regards his real estate [Minutes 1822-27, n.p.]. A committee was appointed to settle the problem, and their report was recorded in the Monday, May 1828 session [Minutes 1828-33]. His estate papers listed seventeen persons and called them his children, but at least two of them, Ishmael and Elias, were probably his grandchildren [North Carolina Archives Estate Papers, Chatham County].

Sources

[S319] Indiana, Marriage Index, 1800-1941, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;), Database online. Title: , , ; Book: ; Page: .
Record for Ishmael Roberts
[S299] North Carolina, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 1999;).
Record for Ishmael Roberts
[S300] 1790 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Year: 1790; Census Place: Robeson, North Carolina; Series: M637; Roll: 7; Page: 147; Image: 429; Family History Library Film: 0568147.
Record for Ishmael Roberds
[S301] 1800 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Year: 1800; Census Place: Fayetteville, Robeson, North Carolina; Series: M32; Roll: 32; Page: 415; Image: 425; Family History Library Film: 337908.
Record for Ishmael Roberts
[S244] 1810 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Year: 1810; Census Place: Chatham, North Carolina; Roll: 39; Page: 195; Image: 00360; Family History Library Film: 0337912.
Record for Ishmael Roberts
[S302] North Carolina and Tennessee, Revolutionary War Land Warrants, 1783-1843, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2013;).
Record for Ishmael Roberts
[S281] North Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2015;), Wills, 1770-1931; Author: North Carolina. Probate Court (Chatham County); Probate Place: Chatham, North Carolina.
Record for Ishmael Roberts
[S433] Annals of Lincoln County, North Carolina : containing interesting and authentic facts of Lincoln County history through the yea, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT; Date: 2005;).
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