"At different times [John1 Roberts] gave tracts of land to his sons, Richard2, John2 and Nathaniel2, and on May 13, 1730, signed a deed giving all of his remaining real estate to his son William2, under the provisions of a bond made by the latter at the same time which admitted a debt of £300, owed in return, unless he allowed his father the use of all the new house, half of the cellar, half of the barn and half of the product of the land during the father’s life. John had married, date and place unknown, Patience2 Saxton but she evidently had died before this transaction for another clause of the agreement provided that if the father should marry and leave a widow she should have one-third of the product of the land as long as she remained his relict. relict. He died between the last-mentioned date and March 26, 1735, when administration on his estate was granted to his son Nathaniel2. The inventory, taken May 5, 1735, by Samuel2 Beaman, Jr., and exhibited the next day, showed only personal property amounting to £34-16-00."
