>From: Cindy Walcott <[email protected]> >Subject: Reuben Robblee m. Polly Spicer >Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 13:47:30 -0400 >... >Yesterday I spent the day at the Vermont Historical Society and found a >couple of Robblee bits and pieces. It's kind of funny, New England >tends to be kind of parochial. VHS specializes in VT, of course, but >beyond that New England. NY is right next door, but VHS's NY sources are >pretty skimpy. I keep trying to go at the Robblee/Roblee family from the >"other side" - that is their spouses' side, but have had very little >luck. > > Actually, I have had similar experience at the DAR library in DC. Seems >NY settlers didn't document much. > >Anyhow, I have a question for you Bob, on: > >Meech, Susan Spicer. History of the Descendants of Peter Spicer, a >Landowner in New London, CT as Early as 1666 and Others of the Name. > Boston: F. H. Gilson Co., 1911 > >page 86 Polly Spicer, born 20 Jul 1802, dau. Jeremiah and Rhoda >(Brownell) Spicer m. Reuben Robblee. > >I didn't have Polly Spicer in my database, but Bob, you do. You have her >as married to Reuben, son of Reuben and Mary _____. On what basis do you >marry her to this Reuben. (I admit, he does seem to be the only likely >candidate.) > >We also have another stray Reuben, who was in Kendall, NY at least by 1849. > I wonder if this is the same Reuben? > >Cindy > >