RBH Report Keene for Robe Gardner

Title: RBH Report Keene for Robe Gardner
Rights: RBH Keene
Type: Text
Creator: Carroll, Jennifer
Date: 2023
Description: Recovering Black History report compiled by volunteers from Keene for Robe Gardner
Format: PDF
Language: English
Subject: 21st Century
Individual Mentioned: Gardner, Robe
extracted text: Robe/Roby Gardner
Keene, NH

BACKGROUND SUMMARY
In May 1805 a baby born to colored person “Robe” died in Keene. One month later in June
1805, Roby Gardiner of Keene married Will T. Johnson of Keene.

Family Timeline:
1805: “Robe’s child ‘Nig’” died in Keene on 3 May 1805.1
1805: Roby Gardiner married Will T. Johnson in Keene by Rev. Aaron Hall, town minister at the
Congregational Church.2

ITEMIZED RESEARCH FINDINGS
Census Records
1860 U.S. Census

REPOSITORIES VISITED
ONLINE RESOURCES USED
Ancestry.com
Keene Evening Sentinel. http://keene.advantage-preservation.com/

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NH US Death Records
NH US Marriage Records

Jennifer Carroll

FURTHER RESEARCH RECOMMENDATIONS

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Recovering Black History in the Monadnock Region project: Roxbury