In the four years that Newark native Edward J. Roye lived in Liberia, he had become a very wealthy man. In 1850, he returned to the United States on personal business and was asked to return to Terra ...

In March 1845, Newark-born Edward James Roye sold his business and property in Terre Haute, Indiana. The property he owned in Newark was sold two months later. It is believed that his wife died this ...

The American Colonization Society still controlled Liberia when Edward Roye moved there in 1846. In 1847, however, Liberians declared their independence, so they could establish a sovereign state and ...