>From: Cindy Walcott <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: Robblee Daughters >Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:28:38 -0400 >... >Hello Lynda, Bob and cousins -- Here is my 2 cents on the daughters of >Wm. Robblee. For those who don't know or remember (and why would you?), >this is my line too. I am desc. from Wm's son Andrew Rublee. My >mother's maiden name is Rublee. See my notes inserted in the text below [set in double brackets] > >Dear Cindy, Bob & Robblee Cousins, > > I hope you're all having a nice summer. > >>Ha! I've had better. After the death of both of my in-law within 15 >days, my father is now in the hospital. I am hoping for return to dull >routine. > >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. > >>Sounds lovely, Lynda. > > > 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.} > >>When William Robblee bought land in Lanesborough, MA on 6 July 1768, he is >described as "of Philips Patent in Dutchh\ess County, New York". By 15 >October of the same year, when he bought a second parcel of land, he was >"of Lanesborough". This seemss to be the best benchmark we have. That >would suggest that Mary and Andrew (and the younger children) were born in >Lanesborough. I agree with Lynda that the others were most likely born in >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} > >> I feel confident that these children belong in this family. Williams >Sr. left a will recorded at the Berkshire County, Massachusetts Probate >Court. He left one-third of his estate to his wife Katura. His sons >William, Hiram, Andrew, Francis, John Brush and Erastus are mentioned, as >well as daughters Lucy, Katura, Rebekah, Susannah, Mary and 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. > >> I am really not sure where to place Permelia/Pamela. There is no >evidence that she belongs in this family -- and in fact I do not see how >she could. She was apparently born June 1766. That would make her a VERY >tight squeeze between Wm. Jr. and Hiram. Notwithstanding that, she in not >mentioned in Wm's will. > >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. > >> Agreed. > >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. > >> This is the "real" Sarah, in my mind. She was bapt. in the Lanesborough >Congr. Church 6 Aug 1780 -- along with several of her siblings. > >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. > >>Here is what I think on this -- Wm. Jeffords first wife was Rebecca >Robblee. In Wm. Sr.'s will, she is referred to as Rebecca Jeffords. I >don't know where the confusion about the first name arose. I cannot find >any record of Rebecca Jefford's death in Vermont -- not entirely surprising >for that era. > >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. > >> I also have 21 Nov 1756. I feel confident that Lucy is dau. of Wm. > > >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? > >>William was the son of Wm. Seymour and Lydia St. John. Born 18 Mar 1760, >place unknown to me, possibly Norwalk, CT. I have Sarah Seymour who m. >John Hoyt as a dau. of Wm. Seymour -- sounds like that bears checking. At >the time of William Seymour's marriage to Susannah Rublee in 1781 already >living in New Haven, VT, accordingto the marriage record, Lanesborough, MA. > I have a note to myself to double-check this. However, for sure, William >Seymour was one of the earliest settlers of New Haven (Child's Gazeteer) > He saw long service as a soldier in the Revolution, between 1775 and 1780. > He received a pension. William and Susannah had ten children (Jacobus, >1939, page ??) . I have not been able to find a record of their names and >dates of birth. > >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? > >>see above on Rebecca. Mary is an interesting case. Mary Rublee was >single at the time of her father's death in 1792. I have found no definite >further record of her. She is likely the Polly Rublee, who died on 15 May >1795 in her 25th year, and is buried in proximity to William Robblee in >Lanesborough. There is also a gravestone for Norman Rublee, son of Polly >Rublee, who died 21 Mar, 1792. Did Mary (Polly) Rublee have a child out of >wedlock? > > >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? > Was the >elder Thomas Robblee ever in Lanesboro? I look forward to hearing some of >your >thoughts. > >>Looks like Permelia is the only one "left over"! > >>Now you have them my thoughts! You happened to ask a question right up my >alley! > >Cindy >[email protected] > >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}. >