Lewis W. Roberts (1813 - 1874)

11/4/1832 William took Lewis to Joseph Foulkes Boarding School.

12/30/1832 Lewis come home from school to see us.

1/1/1833 Havard took our Lewis, and Lewis and Thomas Walker to Gwynedd.

3/30/1833 Lewis come home from Gwynedd Boarding School this evening.

4/21/1833 Lewis and Robert gone to Gwynedd.

7/20/1833 Lewis gone to Merion.

8/29/1833 Lewis poorly.

7/27/1834 William Hallowell and Isaac Roberts come here afternoon. Lewis went with them to the Springs [Yellow Springs?].

11/3/1834 Eliza Davis come here to stay with our family. Lewis brought Elisa and Rachel up here. Now we are all ready to start to Ohio tomorrow morning.

12/4/1834 Arrive home about 8 o’clock in the evening. As we come by the lime kiln we see it afire, we stopd and called, and William, Lewis, and Parry Davis all come to the road to speak to us.

12/20/1834 Lewis come home.

4/2/1835 Lewis went to help William Firenshield [?] to move.

6/12/1835 Lewis, Joseph and Isaac Roberts went to Paoli to go to Merion on the rail road.

10/26/1835 Lewis began to haul limestone [to the kiln].

2/27/1836 Lewis went to the Bull to hear the result of an arbitration between Major McVeigh and Henry Chrisman, not decided.

3/24/1836 Lewis and Harriot went to help Abram Peck move from Moore Hall to Job Eldridges old place.

9/26/1836 Lewis W. Roberts started at half past 8 o’clock on his journey to the West.

12/17/1836 Got home around 9 o’clock. Lewis at home he had been gone between 11 and 12 weeks.

2/20/1837 This morning Lewis took his father to the Paoli to go to town to attend court.

3/30/1837 Lewis went to move Dr. Coffman to Cedar Hollow.

6/5/1837 John has a time pulling down the Mill, Lewis and Daniel assisting him.

8/26/1837 Lewis went to Jersey.

9/24/1837 Lewis took the girls to see the tunnel.

10/19/1837 Lewis hawling stone for John Williams at Charles Adamsons.

11/22/1837 Lewis is ploughing up the meadow.

1/15/1838 Lewis and David went to town with the waggon.

1/18/1838 Mary Ann Gordon and Phebe Roberts come here from meeting to help us quilt. Lewis took them home.

2/4/1838 Lewis took Priscilla, Maria & I to the Paoli to go to Philadelphia.

2/13/1838 Lewis went to hawl wheat for John Kinwalt from the Paoli.

2/15/1838 Lewis went to I. Roberts to help them move to Norristown./p>

2/17/1838 Joseph, Lewis, Nancy Stroud and I went in the sleigh to Major McVeighs. When we got home found William and Stephen there. Lewis and Stephen went one road asleighing.

2/18/1838 William, Lewis, and Mary W. Conard, Mary R. Matlack and Hollowells went to Havard Walkers.

2/24/1838 Lewis W. Roberts and Mary W. Conard went to Jacob Beidlers.

2/26/1838 Lewis went to Walleys vendue in Easttown.

3/4/1838 Lewis and Mary W. Conard went to uncle Tommy Walkers.

3/8/1838 Joseph and Lewis went to Joseph E. Pennypackers vendue.

4/3/1838 Lewis, Mary W. Conard, and Daniel Johnson went to James Johnsons moving from Moore Hall to Thomas Grovers.

4/12/1838 Lewis went to town to attend the Yearly Meeting.

4/15/1838 Lewis come home as we come from meeting.

4/30/1838 Benny Maule come to see Lewis.

5/4/1838 Lewis sent Joseph Conrad as far as the old emcampment on his way to Philadelphia via John Patterson, Great Valley.

5/5/1838 Lewis went to Norristown.

5/11/1838 Lewis went to town.

5/12/1838 Lewis brought Mary W. Conard home with him.

5/26/1838 Afternoon Lewis and Mary W. Conard went to Norristown.

5/27/1838 Lewis and Mary come home before we got from meeting.

6/12/1838 Lewis W. Roberts and Mary W. Conard went with the girls to see the tunnel.

6/17/1838 Lewis W. Roberts went to the Valley.

6/27/1838 Lewis gone to help Moses Robinson cut his grass.

6/28/1838 Lewis W. Roberts and Nathan Matlack at Moses Robinson today.

6/29/1838 Lewis and Nathan gone to Moses Robinson.

7/16/1838 Lewis and Stephen went to Reading on the new railroad.

8/5/1838 Lewis took Ann to the Valley.

8/7/1838 Joseph, Lewis, Mary W. Conard, Mary W. Roberts and I went to Radnor to attend Philadelphia Quarterly meeting.

8/18/1838 Lewis went to market yesterday.

8/24/1838 Lewis started this morning took the Carr and went by way of Norristown to the falls for Isaac Walker to go to Baltimore.

8/31/1838 Lewis took Mary W. Conard and Mary R. Matlack to Pawlings Bridge to take the carr to Norristown.

9/6/1838 Mary W. Conard went to the Valley to a quilting. Lewis went for her this evening.

9/28/1838 Lewis gone to town. Lewis went to township meeting.

10/28/1838 Lewis went to the two Dr. Andersons to tell them of the death of their father [Isaac Anderson?]. Lewis and Harriot Roberts and two of their children come from meeting with us.

11/7/1838 Lewis went this afternoon to attend Horsham Quarter.

11/15/1838 Sent for Dr. Coffman to see Lewis.

12/9/1838 Sammy and Lewis took a walk over to see Joseph Anderson.

12/15/1838 Lewis got home from town, he took a load of oats - brought forty five cents per bushel - got himself a Bangup.

1/26/1839 Lewis went to see Schuylkill and saw a man that had come down the river on the roof of a building that had washed off from Phoenix. And when he floated down on the island above the long ford he caught hold of a small tree, and clung to that until he became exhausted and fell down into the water, calling for help, but none could be had.

1/27/1839 Lewis went to see the destruction around Valley Forge.

1/29/1839 Lewis took William to the Paoli.

2/2/1839 Lewis went to Nicholas Bean’s for coal for grandfather.

2/5/1839 Our son Lewis and Sarah Marys were married today.

4/8/1839 Lewis and his wife moved in part of the house with Peter Bloom, on Quimby’s lot [This was the lot between Whitehorse and Anderson Roads which Joseph purchased in 1840].

9/13/1839 Lewis hauled a load of scaffold poles for William Taylor to Samuel Sowers new building.

10/15/1839 Lewis began to hawl pig iron to Westchester [from where?].

11/4/1839 John Jones went with Lewis to Westchester.

1/24/1840 Lewis went to Waters vendue, Valley Forge.

4/8/1840 Joseph, Lewis and I went to help John Wersler move to Taylors farm.

5/15/1840 Lewis brought the marketing down today.

7/14/1840 Lewis and the boys gone to Weidners to haul in our crop we bought of John Saylor. It turns out to be a very poor crop, both in wheat and rye.

2/18/1841 Lewis W. Roberts and Jonathan Reader went to town with a load of oats, which brought 27 cents per bushel.

4/16/1841 Lewis went to town and took his aunt Sarah with him.

4/25/1841 Isaac W. Conard come to see us and Lewis took him to the rail road this afternoon.

5/14/1841 Joseph come home this evening his foot some better. Lewis went to market.

6/11/1841 I went to town with Lewis.

11/6/1841 Lewis finished his corn today.

11/24/1841 Lewis W. Roberts and Jonathan Reader went to Westchester with a load of coal.

6/29/1842 Mary went to Lewis’s. The men there making hay.

7/5/1842 Lewis began to cut his grain.

7/11/1842 Lewis at Williams. Joseph went to help them.

8/1/1842 Lewis W. Roberts and Billy Murphy here cutting our oats.

8/24/1842 I went to Lewis to help Sarah with her butter.

12/7/1842 We butchered three hogs, Lewis W. and William Murphy here helping.

3/4/1843 Lewis come and took Ann and the rest of her goods to her home.

4/1/1843 Lewis W. Roberts moving.

6/28/1844 I took my butter to Amos Rapps, for Lewis to take to market.

7/18/1844 Jonathan went to help Lewis with his oats.

11/13/1844 Lewis W. Roberts and Edinboro here helping butcher a hog.

11/29/1844 Sent for Martha Johnson to help butcher. Lewis W. Roberts and Edinboro were here also.

4/1/1845 Lewis W. Roberts moving to a house of John Williams. Intends to try to make some other way of living than farming.

4/29/1845 Lewis W. is at Court as witness against George Peace.

7/3/1845 Lewis and John Griffith began to mow the orchard.

8/27/1845 Lewis W. Roberts started to Ohio after a drove.

5/8/1846 Joseph went to Lewis’s and brought Sarah and the 3 children to keep his company while Mary and I went to Yearly meeting.

12/12/1846 We butchered a beef and 4 hogs, L. W. Roberts, William Steele, and Charles Irons helping us.

12/15/1846 Joseph went to assist Lewis about his butchering.

3/30/1847 Joseph took cousin Nancy, Billy and I to G. March’s, they were moving out, for Lewis W. Roberts to move in.

8/8/1847 Lewis W., Mary W., and myself went to West Chester to the prison to see my dear husband and their affectionate father, detained there for false position of the Court.

12/18/1847 Lewis W. Roberts here helping butcher 4 hogs.

4/4/1848 Joseph and Mary R. Walker, Mary R. and Deborah Matlack, John Longstreth, Enoch Davis, William and Susan and Lewis W. Roberts, Jerome Rhoads, Stryker Rossiter, and Johns little boys were all to help us move.

9/2/1848 Lewis W. Roberts brought John, Mary, and Mary Jane home, the time of going to the Capes was over the 1st of this month.

9/6/1848 I went to Lewis’s to help them make apple sauce.

9/30/1848 I went to Lewis’s to help make sauce for ourselves.

12/9/1848 Lewis W. Roberts here helping butcher 7 hogs.

1/29/1849 Lewis W. Robetts here helping butcher a beef. Samuel Robb went home with him to thresh.

12/11/1849 Lewis W. Roberts and Morris Miller helping butcher a beef.

12/22/1849 Lewis W. Roberts brought 8 steers here.

12/25/1849 Lewis and Andrew Kirkpatrick here helping butcher.

5/8/1850 I went to Lewis’s. He come home from Marcus Hook and brought us some shad.

1/6/1851 We butchered 5 hogs, sold one to Creager, L. W. Roberts, Benjamin Rhoads and Andrew and Mary Kirkpatrick here helping.

3/14/1851 Lewis W. Roberts and Jonathan Major here to dinner, brought hay here.

4/1/1851 John and Sarah R, Williams, L. W. Roberts and his two daughters, Jacob Rhoads, Maragret and Sarah Davis, Janette Davis, Margaret McVeagh and son B. Franklin, and J. W. Williams come to help, also Henry Christy. We got down about 10 oclock all safe.

7/28/1851 A good many men at Lewis’s building a house for seniors.

12/14/1851 Lewis W. Roberts accompanied his sister to Norristown where she expects to commence school in the new peabled school house.

12/24/1851 Philip Cliff buried his wife and two children. John and Lewis went to the funeral. Lewis went up to Browers after Mary, she come from Norristown to Phoenixville on the stage.

1/1/1852 We dined on roast turkey at Lewis’s.

1859 - 1868 Lewis W. Roberts licensee of the Fountain Inn, Schuylkill township.

1870 - 1872 Lewis W. Roberts licensee of the Springville Hotel, Springville.

1873 Lewis W. Roberts licensee of the Spring City Hotel, Spring City.

1874 died. No Chester County probate or administration.