Sometimes I forget that we had some ancestors who lived in New Jersey for a generation or two. This is one of those ancestors, He was actually born in Woodbridge, Middlesex County and died in Freehold, Monmouth County, so he spent his whole, although relatively brief, life there.
Joseph Robbins was the son of Daniel and Hope Potter Robins. (The second "b" was a fixture in Joseph's name but not in Daniel's.) Daniel was from somewhere in Scotland, apparently. He may have come to the colonies as a Covenanter, or he came have come as an indentured servant, for the same reasons ohters came to the Colonies.
Joseph was one of at least 11 children of Daniel and Hope Potter Robins. The first we find of him is his marriage to Anna Pack on June 8, 1692 in Woodbridge. Anna is the daughter of George and Anna possibly Cranmer Pack. Joseph and Anna had at least 9 children, before Joseph's premature death ion May 10, 1709.
We don't know any more about Joesph than that, except that he sold l100 acres of land in Woodbridge to his son Joseph when he moved to Monmouth, That is a clue that he was a farmer of some sort, and in his will he calls himself "yeoman".
Several of Joseph's children were minors when he died. He left everything to his widow during her life, then gave each son (except Richard, who was born after Joseph's death) land that was to be his after the widow's death. Each son was to provide for one or two of his sisters, ten pounds each two years after taking possession of the land. Each son was also to give 25 pounds to the unborn baby if it was a boy, and nothing if a girl.
I haven't yet located land records for Joseph but records surely must exist. There may be an inventory somewhere, also, but I've not yet located it. I've also not yet located a deaath record for Anna, nor guardianship records regarding her children. There is much work yet to do!
The line of descent is:
Joseph Robbins-Anna Pack
Bethia Robbins-John Nation
Christopher Nation-Elizabeth Swaim
Joseph Nation-Jerretta Vickery
Elizabeth Nation-Christopher Myers
Phoebe Myers-John Adam Brown
Phoebe Brown-Fremont Holbrook
Loren Holbook-Etta Stanard
Gladys Holbrook-Richard Allen
Their descendants
Janice, you share yet another line with my husband, who also descends from John Nation and Bethia Robbins. :)
ReplyDeleterobbins traces their blood to clans gunn and clan donnachaidh/roberts as well on to the picts,scythians,etc.
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