Elijah Roberts, African American, migrated from Northhampton County, North Carolina, to western Ohio in 1825. Seems he eventually settled in Indiana. The info below on Elijah Roberts comes from the Indiana History Society website, in the personal history collections. http://www.indianahistory.com/aahcpers.htm ROBERTS, Elijah (1795-1848) Papers, 1832-1972 reference: M 325, 1 box, Collection Guide Elijah Roberts migrated from Northhampton County, North Carolina, to western Ohio in 1825. By 1830 he and some of his relatives purchased government land and formed a community known as Beech Settlement in Rush County. After the rapid depletion of available land in Rush County, residents of the Beech and newcomers began to seek land farther west and north. Elijah Roberts and his cousins, Willis and Hanson Roberts and Micajah Walden, ventured to Jackson Township in Hamilton County, making initial land purchases during the summer of 1835. An abundance of the settlers in the township were surnamed Roberts and, the area became known as Roberts Settlement. The materials in the collection mostly pertain to Elijah Roberts and other family members: son Peter, daughter Martha, and granddaughter Almary Roberts Wallace. There is a copy of Elijah Roberts's 1820 certificate of freedom and his last will and testament. His many business papers spanning the middle third of the nineteenth century include tax receipts, land appraisals, and numerous promissory notes.