MR. ROBERT ROBERTS, REMSEN, ONEIDA COUNTY, NEW YORK.
ROBERT ROBERTS, from the parish of Llangybi, Carnarvonshire, came to Steuben in 1801. He built a framed house just west of Capel Ucha', his lot adjoining the church lot in the rear, and the house stood about twenty-five rods north of the highway.By his wife Emily his children were Catherine, who married David Williams, and became the mother of David H. Williams, for years a prominent citizen of Steuben and later of Rome, N. Y.; Ellen, who married William Lewis and was the mother of Squire William Lewis, long a representative citizen of Steuben township; another daughter who married a Mr. Reed and became the mother of Ebenezer, Henry, John, David, Jane, Mary, Ann, Rachel, Harriet and Emily Reed; and William R., for many years a carpenter, cabinet maker and undertaker at Remsen, who married Jane Griffith, sister of Evan Griffith II, of Steuben.
The children of William R. and Jane Roberts were Ellen, wife of Samuel Fairchild; Jane, wife of Cornelius Griffiths, of Remsen; Tryphena; Mary Ann, wife of Owen Richards, of Utica; Emily, wife of Samuel Douglas; and Robert W. The latter married first Electa, daughter of Gilbert Cole, and their children were M. Louisa, first wife of Theodore Worden, of Oswego; Lydia, who married a Mr. Smith and removed to Michigan; Grove, who died in infancy; and Charles O., of Oswego, N. Y. He married second, Mary Evans ( Bryn-gloch ), who had one son, Willard, of Remsen.