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1302 Descendants of Richard Roberts & Elizabeth Lynden Montgomery


6. SHADRACK2 ROBERTS (RICHARD1) was born Abt. 1764 in Granville County, North Carolina, and died Abt. 1804 in Columbia County, Georgia. He married DELILA "DILLY" LANDERS Aft. 1799, daughter of LUKE LANDERS and RACHEL PARRISH. She was born July 31, 1769 in Granville County, North Carolina, and died October 30, 1849 in Benton (Calhoun) County, Alabama (Source: 1850 Mortality Schedule Benton(Calhoun) County lists Delila Swan).

Notes for SHADRACK ROBERTS:
Other spellings: Shadrick, Shadwick, Chad
LDS File with no source provides:
Birth: < 1764> <Richmond County, Georgia>
Death: 15 OCT 1804
Spouse: DELLEY
Marriage: < 1789> <Richmond County, Georgia>

1767 Granville County North Carolina Tax List of Philip Pryor:
Richard Robert[torn] Shadrick Roberts, Philis Rose Negro Women 2 whites 2 blacks 4 total

In 1777, The Indian lands in South Carolina opened and many North Carolinians migrated to that area.

1784; Chester, South Carolina, wife, Delila "Dilly/Delly" Landers gives birth to David P. Roberts.

Columbia County, Georgia didn't exist until 1790, when it was created from Richmond County

23 Dec 1801. Shadrach Roberts swears to administer estate of Joseph Cartledge, and to make a true and perfect inventory.

23 Dec 1801. Shadrach Roberts appointed to administer estate of Joseph Cartledge, and John Willingham, John Roberts and Isaac Willingham appointed to make the inventory. (Recorded in Columbia Co. Letters of Administration 1799-1813.)

Shadrack Roberts' Last Will & Testament in a book by Reverend Silas Emmett Lucas,
"Some Georgia County Records, V. 4", printed in 1991.

Following are portions of that will:
15 Oct., 1804: "I Shadrack Roberts, being low in body but sound mind. I give unto my beloved wife Delley Roberts, one third of the estate of Joseph Cartledge." Then he names his children: Pations, David, Joseph, Absolam, John and the son or daughter my wife is now pregnant with, Fanny, Genny.
Will proved on oath of --- in open court 23 Feb. 1805
Source: (Columbia Co., GA, Wills Book. H or 4?,1803-1821, p. 29, 30, 31).

Another Last Will & Testament resource:
Will of Shadrack Roberts (signed 8 Mar 1804, proved 15 Oct 1804; extract published by Georgia
Pioneers in Columbia County, Georgia, Wills).

1805 Tax List for Columbia Co., GA provides a clue as to the locations.

One of the families living in the Keg Creek watershed: Shadrick Roberts
On an 1805 Jury, there is a 'Chad' Roberts, this juror is most likely him.

Keg Creek flows eastward to join the Savannah River just south of the Little River.

Notes for DELILA "DILLY" LANDERS:
Dilly Landers married four times: (1) Bejamin PAGE, (2) Joseph CARTLEDGE, (3) Shadrack ROBERTS , & (4) Jonathan SWANN.

Dilly's birth is found in a family Bible record published in Simon Elbert Boozer and Mary Ann Landers Payne, History of the Landers Family in America [Anniston AL, 1966, found in GA Archives, Atlanta], p. 7.

"It was not by her second husband Joseph Cartledge, but by her third, Shadrach Roberts, that she had the posthumous child. Perhaps this inaccuracy is an instance of Dilly's "most entertaining conversational powers."

"After grandfather's (Joseph Cartledge) death, my grandmother (Dilly Landers Page Cartledge) was twice married, first to a Mr. [Shadrack] Roberts, and afterwards to a Mr. [Jonathan] Swann. She was married four times, raised a family by each of her husbands, buried all four of them in succession, and then lived a widow for the last twenty years of her life. She died in Benton County, Alabama, in 1851 in the ninety-third years of her life. Of all persons whom I have personally known, my grandmother Cartledge was gifted with the most entertaining conversational powers. She could make her conversation interesting and attractive to young and old alike, to the learned and the unlearned. She had a much better education than most women of her time, her father, LUKE LANDERS, a successful teacher, having given his children an unusually good education for that day and time."

Source:
Historical Sketches, Presbyterian Churches and Early Settlers in N.E. Georgia
by Reverend Groves Harrison Cartledge (grandson to Joseph Cartledge)
Compiled by Jessie Julia Mize and Virginia Louise Newton.

Church Minutes:
Minutes of Kiokee Baptist Church 1791-1818 (Columbia Co. GA).
20 May 1797: Sister Dilley Cartledge dismiss’d by letter. (folio 12 recto)
Minutes of Damascus Baptist Church 1820-1861 (Leah, Columbia Co. GA).
Dilly Swan was among the original members of the church (1820).

The 1850 Mortality Schedule for Benton (Calhoun) County, Alabama lists Delila Swan, age 80, widow, born N.C.; died Oct 1849 with dropsy - sick for 21 days.

Delila may been living with her daughter, Elizabeth (Page) Spaulding Roberts in 1840. Listed in the household of Elizabeth Roberts in 1840, Benton County, AL is a female aged 80 & under 90. Of course, Delila would have been 70 & under 80 in 1840, could be a census mistake.
     
Children of SHADRACK ROBERTS and DELILA LANDERS are:
15. i.   DAVID P.3 ROBERTS, b. 1784, Chester, South Carolina; d. July 07, 1837, Calhoun (Benton) County, Alabama.
  ii.   PATIONS ROBERTS.
  Notes for PATIONS ROBERTS:
Perhaps Pations is a male? Patience Roberts

1790, U.S. Census, Edgefield County, South Carolina
Roll: M637_11, Image: 0065, Pg. 68
Patience Roberts, Head of Household




  iii.   NANCY ROBERTS.
  iv.   DOROTHY ROBERTS.
  v.   FANNY ROBERTS.
  vi.   GINNY ROBERTS.
  vii.   JOSEPH ROBERTS.
  viii.   ABSOLOM ROBERTS.
  Notes for ABSOLOM ROBERTS:
Other spelling: Absolam, Absolem
born between 1793 -1786, Columbia or Richmond County, Georgia?

1790, U.S. Census, Edgefield County, South Carolina
Roll: M637_11, Image: 0316, Pg. 62
Absolom Roberts, Head of Household
OR
Absalom Roberts, Orangeburgh, South Carolina
M637_11, Image: 0233, Pg. 94




  ix.   JOHN ROBERTS.


7. DAVID MONTGOMERY2 ROBERTS (RICHARD1) was born October 1745 in Charlotte County, Virginia or Orange County, North Carolina, and died February 23, 1840 in Shelby County, Alabama. He married CAROLINE MILLS 1766 in Caswell County, North Carolina.

Notes for DAVID MONTGOMERY ROBERTS:


The following paragraph was recorded by Carlos Elmo Roberts as told to him by his father. This written document has been handed down through the family.

First we find David Roberts of Person County, North Carolina. While he resides at this place he became a soldier in the Revolutionary War. In the year 1814 he, his four sons and daughters moved to Lincoln County, Georgia (near Old Salem Church.) He moved from Lincoln County, Georgia to what is now known as Lowndes County, Alabama in the year about 1820, settling near the Alabama River, about half way between Catawba and the city of Montgomery. His four sons were: Jerry, Jesse, George and Arthur. I have no information as to the number and names of David Roberts' daughters. These children were reared in Lincoln County, Georgia near Old Salem Church where David first settled after moving from North Carolina to Georgia.

The following information was provided in February 2001 by Tom Roberts as a result of his research on the Roberts Family.

He was born either in Virginia or North Carolina. He was a Revolutionary War veteran from Charlotte County, Virginia. David Roberts was not in the Granville or Caswell County, North Carolina 1784-7 census. A David Roberts of Person County, North Carolina sold land in Lincoln County, Georgia in 1798 for 300 silver dollars. Deed on file Lincoln County, Georgia courthouse Book A page 175-6. In 1803 in Person County, North Carolina a David Roberts deeds land to a Richard and Andrew Peel (Deed book C page 379 and 381) (son-in-laws?). A David Roberts also sold 150 acres for 120 pounds to son Arthur (C page 382). Witnesses to Arthur's land were three of the sons of David - George, Jeremiah and Willis. A David Roberts paid a poll tax of $0.3125 in Lincoln County, Georgia in 1818. I found no will of David's in North Carolina or Georgia. Another David Roberts (Abt. 1740 - 1802) and his son David (Abt. 1760) lived in Person County, during the same time frame; therefore, I question which David sold what. See notes under son John Arthur Roberts. (2,3, 5).

The following from Melvin Ray Holt, Sr. roots web site.

REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER PENSION FILE: David Roberts was born in the month of October 1745, near the boundary between Virginia and North Carolina, "Not sure which side." The names of his parents were not stated. While a resident of Caswell County, North Carolina, David Roberts volunteered sometime in April, 1776 and served two tours of three months each as a private in Captain William Rutherford's North Carolina company, and was in a few skirmishes. He volunteered the following spring and served two tours of three months each in Captain Hardin's company. He volunteered the following spring and served two tours of three months each in Captain William Nichols' company. A short while before the surrender of Cornwallis, he served as a captain of a company of volunteers for about three months. David Roberts continued to live in North Carolina for several years after the Revolution and then moved to South Carolina, where he lived about two years. He then moved to Georgia and lived eight or ten years, and thence to Alabama. The soldier, David Roberts, was allowed pension on his application executed August 21, 1832, then a resident of Shelby County, Alabama. He died February 23, 1840, leaving a child, whose name was not given. (Title: Revolutionary War Soldier Pension File of David Roberts, Record Group: Revolutionary War, Document: Certificate No. 26132, File Name: Soldier Pension File of David Roberts, File Number: S 32 487)

More About DAVID MONTGOMERY ROBERTS:
Military service: Revolutionary Soldier
     
Children of DAVID ROBERTS and CAROLINE MILLS are:
  i.   JEREMIAH "JERRY"3 ROBERTS, b. Charlotte County, Virginia or Orange County, North Carolina.
  ii.   JESSE ROBERTS, b. Charlotte County, Virginia or Orange County, North Carolina; m. MARY?.
  Notes for JESSE ROBERTS:


Jesse Roberts moved to South Georgia. I have no data of him and his family after this.

  iii.   GEORGE ROBERTS, b. Charlotte County, Virginia or Orange County, North Carolina.
  Notes for GEORGE ROBERTS:


George Roberts moved to Clark County, Mississippi. No further information.

  iv.   DAVID ROBERTS, d. Abt. 1835.
16. v.   JOHN ARTHUR ROBERTS, b. Abt. 1766, Charlotte County, Virginia or Orange County, North Carolina; d. 1822, Lincoln County, Georgia..


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