Roberts family papers
Contributors: Roberts, Hansel, 1795-1870; Roberts, Jonathan, d. 1820; Roberts, Stephen, b. 1814; Roberts, Willis, 1782-1846
Language: eng
Number of pages: 433
Subjects: Freedmen; African American Participation; African Methodist Episcopal Church; Churches; African Americans; History
Description: Correspondence, indentures, free papers, business and tax receipts, deeds, family records, genealogical papers, newspaper clippings, and other papers.  Includes military records relating to service in the Civil War and a contract (1832) to build the first African Methodist Episcopal Church in Indiana.
Notes: Open to research.

In part, transcripts and photocopies. [S.l.].

Gift, Carl Glennis Roberts, 1944.

Purchase, 1942.

Family of free African Americans living in North Carolina and Indiana.  Principal family members represented in the papers are Jonathan Roberts, Willis Roberts, Hansel Roberts, Stephen Roberts, and Elijah Roberts.

Collection material in English.