>From: Cindy Walcott <[email protected]> >Subject: FW: Looks Like the third Reuben - more >Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 16:32:15 -0400 >... >I was working on my Robblee/Roblee annotated bibliography today and ran >across the following on Reuben m. Polly Spicer: > >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, 1911. > >p. 85-6 Polly Spicer, b. 20 Jul 1802 (d. of Jeremiah Spicer and Rhoda >Brownell of Granville, NY) m. Reuben Roblee. >p. 129 Reuben and Polly (Spicer) Roblee m. 25 Feb 1818. She d. 30 Mar >1854 Kendall, NY. Children: Matilda m. William Ross; Pamon m. Elizabeth >Averill, no children; Morgan m. Harriet Higgins; Percival; Marion d. >unmarried. > > >Note that Polly died in Kendall NY. This suggests that this is the >Reuben Roblee that lived in Kendall, NY. > >Cindy > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Cindy Walcott [SMTP:[email protected]] >Sent: Friday, July 03, 1998 1:45 PM >To: 'Jim Roblee'; Roblee (E-mail) >Subject: RE: Looks Like the third Reuben > >I looked in Bob Robblee's database. He agrees with the theory Jim >proposes. He has this Reuben's wife as Polly >Spicer, and the family having five children -- Matilda, Pamon, Morgan, >Percival and Marion (Interesting names -- had someone been reading old >English/Welsh tales??) > >The Vermont place of birth is interesting. I haven't found signs of Reuben >Sr. in New Haven, VT yet, BUT I don't think it impossible. A Nathaniel >Robblee bought land in New Haven 15 Oct 1792. This may have been >Nathaniel, brother of Reuben Sr. This is less than a year before we >Reuben Jr. was born. The birth records for that period are sketchy in some >places and non-existant in others. > >Cindy > >Cindy Walcott >Planning, Policy and Practice Unit >Social Services >103 South Main St. >Waterbury, VT 05671 >phone: (802) 241-2126 >e-mail: [email protected] > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jim Roblee [SMTP:[email protected]] >Sent: Thursday, July 02, 1998 10:33 PM >To: Roblee (E-mail) >Subject: Looks Like the third Reuben > >John and BobbiKae McDowell: > It looks like you have found the family of Reuben b 1793 son of Reuben b. >1770 ! This is the first info I have seen of this family. The record also >indicates that Mary (Polly) was the also the name of Reuben's mother so >there may be some sort of confusion. Could you indicate the source of this >info? The Carpenter manuscript indicates he was admitted to the Bapt. >Church in N. Granville in 1816. Orleans County is over 220 miles west of >Granville. > > > Jim Roblee > > >