Marriage and Family
In 1828 Roberts married an 18-year-old woman named Sarah. They had an infant child whom they took with them when they emigrated to Liberia, under the auspices of the American Colonization Society. Both Sarah and the child died in the first year in the colony.
Some time after his wife's death, Roberts married again, to Jane Rose Waring. She was a daughter of Colston Waring and Harriet Graves, Virginians who had also migrated to the colony.
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