Roberts family papers, 1734-1944. 

 - 433  items. 2  containers. 
<br/><br/> Open to research. 
<br/><br/> Correspondence, indentures, free papers, business and tax receipts, deeds, family records, genealogical papers, newspaper clippings, and other papers.  Includes military records relating to service in the Civil War and a contract (1832) to build the first African Methodist Episcopal Church in Indiana. 
<br/><br/><br/>In part, transcripts and photocopies. <br/>[S.l.]. 
<br/><br/><br/>Family of free African Americans living in North Carolina and Indiana.  Principal family members represented in the papers are Jonathan Roberts, Willis Roberts, Hansel Roberts, Stephen Roberts, and Elijah Roberts. 
<br/><br/><br/>Collection material in English. 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>mm 77037986  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Roberts family.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>African Methodist Episcopal Church.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>African Americans--North Carolina.<br/>African Americans--Indiana.<br/>Churches--Indiana.<br/>Freedmen.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--History--Participation, African American.--Civil War, 1861-1865