Stephen Roberts (1817 - 1852)

7/31/1833 Stephen B. Roberts gone to Jersey.

8/25/1834 Stephen took aunt Sally Griffith home to Kimberton.

1/1/1835 Towards evening Stephen took Isaac [Isaac R. Walker?]and some of the girls over to the store.

5/28/1835 John Rinewalt come here to make a bargain for Stephen to learn the milling business.

6/1/1835 Stephen went to Moore Hall to learn the milling business.

7/18/1836 Stephen at home helping cut our grain, a very late harvest, and poor crops in many places.

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 and William, Mary W., Mary Marys and Daniel got Joseph Funks slay and went to J. Williams.

4/14/1838 Maria Conard come home with Joseph. This evening Stephen went to the Valley.

4/15/1838 Thomas and David Walker brought Stephen home.

5/3/1838 Stephen come home poorly.

5/13/1838 Stephen took his father to the Paoli to go to town in the carr to attend court between Conard vs Lee.

6/18/1838 Our men began to mow, Stephen staid to help today.

7/4/1838 Phebe Roberts, Mary W. Roberts, Stephen and I went to the corner in James Woods grove where a lecture was delivered by G. Whitehead on Temperence, and one delivered by W. Burleigh on several subjects and concluded by him on the subject of slavery.

7/13/1838 Stephen went to the Paoli this morning to go to town in the carr.

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

10/10/1838 Stephen and Mary W. Conard went to Kimberton to see Mary Kimber married, but they went a day too soon.

11/25/1838 Stephen gone to J. Williams.

12/30/1838 Lewis and Stephen gone asleighing.

12/31/1838 Stephen took his clothes to Moore Hall this morning.

1/22/1839 Stephen went to his work at Moore Hall.

8/31/1839 Stephen and Mary W. Conard, Mary M. Funk, Mary R. Matlack, and Osborne Conard went to Phoenixville to take the carr to Norristown on their way to Jersey.

9/23/1839 Stephen about taking MH Mill [Moore Hall Grist Mill]

1/10/1841 Stephen was here, he has been travelling thro Baltimore and about to find a situation for milling.

3/17/1841 Stephen B. Roberts moved his miller up to Downingtown yesterday.

4/1/1841 Stephen moved to Downingtown.

3/17/1842 Stephen and Ann M. Conard went with Elijah Lewis and Mary W. Conard to Esq. Highly to see them married.

4/9/1842 Joseph and I went to Peter Supple to acknowledge deeds. When we came home we received a letter from our dear son Stephen who under some discouragement has gone off from his residence to endeavor to get in better business, sorrowful to us all.

2/27/1843 I went to Sammy Whites, heard from them that Stephen was well and in a mill near 100 miles up the Mississippi from Alton.

4/27/1843 We received a letter from Stephen stating he was well and had travelled much.

11/7/1844 Received a letter from Stephen.

1/2/1851 Put a letter in the PO for Stephen B. Roberts.

Notes

• Date of document 1847, not 1842 as previous assignment
• 5 less creditors than on other document in this package. Not mentioned: John Wersler, Mary W. Roberts, Rachel Famous, Wm. D. Haines, Washington Pennypacker
• Total owed: