James Harvey Roberson, Jr., was born in Martin County, North Carolina, on February 11, 1873. Roberson was a merchant, farmer, and fertilizer manufacturer in Robersonville (Martin County) who served on the board of trustees for Robersonville… Read More

Eddie W. Roberts was born in Stanly County, North Carolina on September 20, 1892. A resident of Wadeville, Montgomery County, in 1918 he and his brothers-in-law were arrested for violating the prohibition law. They were sentenced to time on the… Read More

Edward Gallatin Roberts was born in Flat Creek (Buncombe County), North Carolina, on October 26, 1878. Roberts was an attorney who served as county attorney (1911-1912), a member of the legislature representing Buncombe County (sessions 1911,… Read More

Guy Vernon Roberts was born in Madison County, North Carolina, on May 26, 1976. Roberts was an attorney who advocated for the construction of roads in Madison County during the governorship of Locke Craig. He died in Marshall (Madison County),… Read More

James Roberts (d. 1793) was a resident of Chowan County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's independence.

James Roberts was born in Rutherford County, North Carolina in about 1802. A postmaster and justice of the peace for Cleveland County, North Carolina, he assisted Sarah Jenkins with her application for a widow's pension. He died in Cleveland… Read More

John Roberts (circa 1711-1772) was a British politician who served as a member of the Board of Trade from 1761 to 1762 and from 1765 until his death in 1772.

John Roberts was a resident of Chowan County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's independence.

Thomas Roberts was a resident of Chowan County. According to a law passed by the North Carolina… Read More

William Roberts (d. 1794) was a justice of the peace in Chowan County and an overseer of a district within the county. In 1777 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous… Read More

William Paul Roberts was born in Gates County, North Carolina, on July 11, 1841. Roberts was a farmer, state legislator, and a general in the Confederate Army. He represented Gates County in the constitutional conventions of 1868 and 1875, and… Read More

Walter DeLeon Robertson was born on March 2, 1895, in Wilson County, North Carolina. Robertson was a farmer in Selma, North Carolina, when he registered for the draft (World War I) in June 1917. He died in Durham (Durham County) on June 17, 1944… Read More

John Robeson was a resident of colonial Wilmington. In an undated petition, he joined others in asking royal governor Arthur Dobbs for aid in controlling an outbreak of disease that was then decimating cattle, threatening both beef and leather… Read More

Thomas Robeson Jr. was born in Bladen County, North Carolina on January 11, 1740. In 1775 he became a colonel in the Bladen County Regiment of the North Carolina Militia and led troops at the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge in 1776. He resigned his… Read More

John Robins was a Chowan Indian man who resided in Chowan Precinct, North Carolina. In the 1730s he held some sort of leadership role within his nation and helped broker the sale of Chowan lands to North Carolinian colonists. He died sometime… Read More

Jennie - alias Amy Robinson

Charles Robinson Jr. was a resident of colonial North Carolina. In 1755, he joined other merchants, traders, and planters in petitioning the Board of Trade for relief on trade restrictions.

David Wallace Robinson was born on August 25, 1868, in Lincolnton, North Carolina. Robinson was an attorney in Columbia, South Carolina. He died in Columbia on April 17, 1935.

Edmund Pendleton Robinson was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, on June 25, 1885. Robinson served for a time as assistant manager of the United Fruit Growers Association of Western North Carolina. He later served in the World War.… Read More

James B. Robinson was born in Sampson County, North Carolina, in February 1867. Robinson enlisted in the all-Black 9th U.S. Cavalry on May 21, 1895 at Fort Reno, Oklahoma Territory. At the time of his enlistment, he was twenty-eight years old and… Read More

John Robinson was born in South Carolina in about 1820. A merchant, he also served as the clerk of the county court of Meriwether, Georgia. He died in Meriwether in about October 1858.

Nona Robinson (née Thomason) was born on February 8, 1899 in Davidson County, North Carolina. Robinson was a teacher in Lexington. She died in Raleigh on June 23, 1967.

Robert Robinson was born in January 1870 in Georgia. Robinson was the proprietor of a boarding house in Albemarle, North Carolina. In 1919, he provided testimony during an investigation into the alleged abuse of Tallassee Power Company employees… Read More

Sarah Ray was born in Orange County, North Carolina on March 2, 1778. In 1797 she married Joseph Robinson and the couple had at least four children together. She died in Marshall County, Tennessee on June 20, 1852.

Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham, was born in Grantham, England, in 1695. Robinson held several public offices, including Secretary of State for the southern department in 1754 and 1755. He died in London in 1770. 

Mary English was born in Pennsylvania in about 1763. A resident of Caswell County, North Carolina, she married Thomas Robison in about 1781. His second wife, Mary helped care for the Robison children from his previous marriage while Thomas was… Read More

Michael Robison was born in Caswell County, North Carolina in about 1779. His mother died just after his birth, so as a baby, his older sister Agnes cared for him while their step mother Mary English Robison was visiting their father, a soldier… Read More

Thomas Robison was born in about 1744. A resident of Caswell County, North Carolina, he may have served as a sergeant in the 5th North Carolina Regiment of the Continental Line using the name of Thomas Roberts from 1777 to 1779. He then… Read More

William Robson was a local office holder in Pitt County. A member of the Pitt County Committee of Safety in 1774, he also served in the Provincial Congress (1775-1776) and in the… Read More

Emmanuel M. Roderick, Jr., was born in Wilmington (New Hanover County), North Carolina, on December 25, 1891 (or 1893). Roderick was a watchman for the Clyde Steamship Company in Wilmington when he murdered his wife in July 1917. A subsequent… Read More

John Rodet (d. 1804) was a resident of Chowan County. In 1778 he signed an oath swearing his allegiance to the State of North Carolina and promised to report any treasonous conspiracies that might threaten North Carolina's independence.

Richard Roe is a legal term of a male party to a legal proceeding whose name is either unknown or being withheld, similar to John Doe.

James Rogers was a resident of Edenton District. Thomas Best made a deposition stating that… Read More

Jane Frances "Jink" Haywood Rogers was born in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina in 1833. The daughter of a prominent politician and lawyer, she married Sion Hart Rogers in 1853. The couple had at least five known children. She died in Raleigh… Read More

Jane Haywood Rogers was born in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina in about March 1854. The first child of Sion Hart Rogers and Jane Frances Rogers (née Haywood), she died on June 18, 1854, aged three months, and was buried in Raleigh. Several… Read More

John Rogers was born in Virginia in 1717. A farmer with an orchard, his land was on the Virginia-North Carolina boundary in the vicinity of Halifax, Virginia and present-day Person County, North Carolina. His daughter Rachel married a… Read More

John Rogers was a North Carolina soldier in the British army who served in the Seven Years' War. As a sergeant under the command of Major Hugh Waddell in the expedition against Fort Duquesne in 1758, Rogers voluntarily undertook a mission to… Read More

Joseph Johnson Rogers was born in Apex (Wake County), North Carolina, on August 20, 1859. Rogers was a hotel proprietor in North Wilkesboro (Wilkes County) in the mid-1910s. He died in Burlington (Alamance County), North Carolina, on September 7… Read More

Peleg S. Rogers was born in North Carolina on April 13, 1807. He worked as a justice of the peace and merchant in Wake County, North Carolina. He died in Wake County on April 7, 1866.

Robert Rogers (1731-1794) was a Massachusetts-born British army officer who led a company of scouting rangers on several expeditions into present-day New York and Canada during the French and Indian War. 

Ruby Rogers (née Freeman) was born on July 3, 1896, in North Carolina. Rogers was the wife of Leonidas S. Rogers, of Rolesville, Wake County, North Carolina. On the afternoon of Wednesday, October 30, 1918, she was assaulted by an unknown… Read More

Samuel Lyle Rogers was born in Waynesville (Haywood County), North Carolina, on December 31, 1859. Rogers was a banker and lifelong public official who held several offices over the course of his life, including clerk of the Macon County Superior… Read More

Sion Hart Rogers was born in Wake County on September 30, 1825. A lawyer and former Confederate officer, Rogers was the Attorney General of North Carolina from 1863-1868.  Sion would eventually become Attorney General of North Carolina in 1863… Read More

Thomas Rogers (d. 1790) was a resident of Tyrrell County. In 1777 he swore two secret oaths and became a member of the Gourd Patch Conspiracy.… Read More

Edward Franklin Rollins was born on March 6, 1876, in Holly Springs, North Carolina. Rollins was widely known throughout A. M. E. Zion circles as "the Blind Preacher;" when he was just five years old, Rollins… Read More

Thomas Scott Rollins was born on June 24, 1872, in Marshall, North Carolina. Rollins was an attorney in Asheville, North Carolina. During World War I, he was selected by the governor to serve on the state's western district exemption board… Read More