 Complete the following phrase:  By 1838 ten black farmers had purchased of public lands in Jackson Township and were living at Roberts Settlement. Although the 1840 census recorded only five families 38 individuals in Hamilton Countys Jackson and Adams Townships, Stephen Vincent, an historian who has studied the Roberts community in detail, believes that the number was an estimated seven to ten families 50 to 75 individuals. Most of the settlements early pioneers were free blacks and mixed-race people from Halifax County, North Carolina; Northampton County, North Carolina; or Greensville County, Virginia. These early settlers migrated west due to more oppressive government acts against free blacks following 