"John Roberts, called a planter, may have belonged to the family of Robert Roberts, an early settler of Ipswich, who had a son John, born in 1646. Land is not recorded to him till several years after his first appearance in town; which was on occasion of his marriage to Hannah, daughter of Thomas Bray, Feb. 4, 1677; the bride then not having quite completed her fifteenth year. In 1695, he had a grant of six acres by the land of Nathaniel Hadlock; and, in 1705, six acres near Hadlock's house, 'by the side of the lot that said Roberts formerly had for going out a solder'. Hadlock's land bordered on Ipswich line; and this land, mentioned as granted to Roberts for military service, may have been given by the neighboring town. He died Jan. 10, 1714: his wife died March 23, 1717, aged fifty-five."
[Note: emphasis added to stress that this is conjecture, not fact based on this source.]
