>Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 08:00:51 -0400 >From: [email protected] (Lynda McGinnis) >Subject: Re: Theron Robblee's Family > > Dear Cindy, Bob & Robblee Cousins, > > I hope you're all having a nice summer. I just wanted to share a > few of my notes regarding some of the Robblee daughters from > Lanesboro. Cindy & Bob had mentioned some of there information and > questions last month. I'm sorry it's taken me so long to reply. I > was home to see my family. It was a delightful week in the San Juan > Island of Washington State (home) fishing, clam digging, crab > catching, oyster shucking and sharing family. Then, came back to > Boston and I have worked almost everyday since. > The following are my notes and thoughts on some of the Robblee > daughters who married in Lanesboro, MA and moved to New Haven, VT. > I'd love to hear anyones thoughts and suggestions on these women and > their families. It would be nice to place them all into their > parents homes :-) I used the spelling "Robblee" just to be > consistant for > these entries however, as we all know, the spellings appear in many > many varied ways in the original records. > > The birthdates and names of the children of William & Katurah > Robblee > were written into the Lanesboro town records c1772. They are: > 1) Lucy, b 21 Nov 1756 > 2) Katurah, b 16 Mar 1759 > 3) Rebecca, b 5 Aug 1761 > 4) Susannah, b 11 May 1763 > 5) William, b 22 Sep 1765 > 6) Hiram, b 14 Dec 1767 > 7) Mary, b 20 Jul 1770 > 8) Andrew, b 5 Jul 1772 > {note: most or all of these children were written into the book all > as > a group. This was a common practice in New England towns. The town > clerk would go around the town and enter the names and birthdates of > all the children currently living there. This does not mean that > these children were actually born in Lanesboro. According to the > tax records, most of them were probably born in southern Dutchess > Co, NY.} > > DAR application #166131 adds the following children to William & > Katurah's family: > 9) Francis > 10) John Brush > 11) Erastus > 12) Sarah, b 12 Jan 1777 {DAR lineage 166131 goes thru Sarah} > > > So, now to touch on the known and/or suspected Lanesboro Robblee > daughters: > > 1) Permelia (Pamela) Robblee m Uriah Hoyt, probably in Lanesboro, > MA. > She died 29 Jul 1827, age 61 yr 1 mo, New Haven, VT (tombstone > record). Her husband, Uriah Hoyt was a brother of Seth Hoyt, who > married Katurah Robblee. The Hoyt book says that Permelia was a > sister of Katurah Hoyt but, I have not found any evidence to support > this. The children of William & Katurah (Baker) Hoyt were named and > birthdates written into the Lanesboro Town Records c1772. The list > of > children appears complete and there is no place for a Permelia b > c1766. It is also possible that Permelia may have been a middle > name. > > 2) Katurah Robblee m Seth Hoyt. This Katurah is a proven daughter > of > William & Katurah (Baker) Robblee. She was b 17 Mar 1759 (town > record) probably in Dutchess Co, NY; m 9 Feb 1779 at Lanesboro, MA, > Seth Hoyt, a veteran of the Revolution (widow's pension); d 6 Feb > 1839 > Clearfield Co, PA (widow's pension and obituary). Seth & Katurah > (Robblee) Hoyt were one of the earliest of the Lanesboro families to > move north to New Haven, VT. In 1790, Seth Hoyt and Eseck Sprague > (who m Lucy Robblee) were already living in New Haven while, the > other > families were mostly still in Lanesboro, MA. Seth Hoyt d 6 Jan 1831 > in New Haven and Katurah (Robblee) Hoyt went to live with her son, > Gould R Hoyt in Houston, Clearfield Co, PA. All of the children of > Katurah and Seth moved to Clearfield Co, PA except Seth Hoyt, Jr who > stayed in New Haven until after his fathers death. He maybe the > Seth > Hoyt (Jr) who is mentioned in some Granville, NY records but, he > eventually moved to Deerfield, IL where he d 23 Apr 1870. > > 3) Sarah Robblee. Here we have an interesting problem. There > appears to be 2 different Sarah Robblees from Lanesboro. > > a) Sarah Robblee m John Hinman. According to Alice Hinmans' DAR > application #166131, this Sarah is the dau of William & Katurah > (Baker) Robblee, b 12 Jan 1777; m John Hinman 3 Feb 1799 Lanesboro, > MA; d 3 Jul 1845. Unfortunately, this is an old DAR application > (1926) and at that time, there was no requirement for members to > submit actual copies of proof to support their lineages. Purhaps a > search of Addison County records would provide more info on this > family. > > b) Sarah Robblee m William Jeffords. Again, this marriage comes > from > an old DAR application (Lillian Elliott Valentine, 1926, #232137). > There is no proof given for the marriage however, the timing does > fit > together nicely. > William Jeffords was a veteran of the Revolution and received a > pension. He was from Dudley, MA and enlisted at Uxbridge, MA where > he served various times thoughout the war and was discharged in 1783 > near West Point, NY. In his pension, he only names his wife Jemima > whom he married 20 Dec 1807. He is listed in the 1790 census living > in Lanesboro, MA with a wife and child. So, he obviously must have > had 2 wives, as is claimed in the DAR application. The application > states that he m Sarah "Rublee" 1788, she was born about 1770 and > died 1806. > William Jeffords was living in Berkshire, Franklin Co, VT in 1818 > when he made his first application for pension and he died there 8 > Aug 1832. This is interesting. Hiram "Rublee" lived in Berkshire > > in 1800. In 1810, Francis "Rubbler", Andrew "Rubler", Ephraim > "Rubler" & John B. "Rublin" were all living in Berkshire, VT. I did > not find William Jeffords listed in the 1800 or 1810 census in MA, > VT or NY. > Purhaps the spelling was so far off, that I simply missed him in the > index. It's possible that a search of the town of Berkshire and > Franklin Co records might turn up some interesting records which > might prove or disprove this Sarah Robblee, first wife of William > Jeffords. > The list of their children may have come from a Will because it > names > the husbands of their daughters as "Mr ...": very formal, like is > used in a Will. > Does anyone have any ideas on sorting out these 2 Sarah > Robblee's? > Is there any proof that the wife of John Hinman was really the dau > of > William & Katurah (Baker) Robblee or was this assume simply because > they had a daughter named Sarah? It is an interesting coincidence > that William Jeffords moved to the same Vermont town with the sons > of > William & Katurah (Baker) Robblee. > > 4) Lucy Robblee m Eseck Sprague. This marriage comes from the book, > "Sprague Families in America", by Warren Sprague, 1813. > Pg 213 states: "Eseck Sprague... of New Haven, Vt, b May 26, > 1756, > prob. in Lanesboro, Mass, d at New Haven, Sept 4, 1824, of cancer on > the nose. He m Lucy Rubbllee of Lanesboro. She was b Nov 27, 1754 or > 1758; d of asthma, May 13, 1832, dau of William and Katurah (Baker) > Rubbllee who came to Mass from Phillips Patent, Dutchess Co, NY." > {note: this birthdate for Lucy is different than I recorded from > the town records. Does anyone else have these dates?} > Eseck Sprague was also a veteran of the Revolution but, he did not > apply for a pension. Another old DAR application (Orra L Johnson, > 1947, #373405) lists the above mentioned Sprague family genealogy > book as her proof for this lineage. > > 5) Susannah Robblee m William Seymour. I have not picked up > information on this family but, I will check the book on the Seymour > family at NEHGS this week. There was a Sarah Seymour, dau of John of > New Haven, CT who m Ezra Hoyt, Sr. These were the parents of Seth & > Uriah Hoyt who m Katurah & Permelia Robblee. I believe Sarah > (Seymour) Hoyt's brother William Seymour moved to Lanesboro, MA at > the same time as the Hoyts. Does anyone have any info on this > family? > > 6) Rebecca Robblee b 1761 & Mary Robblee b 1770. I have no record of > these 2 daughters. Could one of these be the same person as > > Permelia? > > Well, this is about all I have on these Robblee daughters from > Lanesboro, MA. It seems likely that some were the daughters of > Reuben > but, which ones? I look forward to hearing some of your thoughts. > > Lynda {[email protected]} > > {My line desc from William & Katurah (Baker) Robblee thru their dau > Katurah (Robblee) & Seth Hoyt and thru their son, Gould R Hoyt of > VT, NY, PA & MN}. >