Deborah (Butterfield) Robbins (1714 - 1786)

Born 18 Aug 1714 in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

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Descendants

Died 14 Dec 1786 at age 72 in Boxborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD, born at Chelmsford, 18 Aug 1714 daughter of Benjamin Butterfield and Elizabeth Fletcher;^[1] Deborah died at Boxborough, 14 Dec 1786;^[2] married at Westford, 9 Dec 1740,^[3] JAMES ROBBINS, born at Groton, 19 Feb 1716/7^[4] son of Robert and Mary (Dill) Robbins;^[5][6] James died at Boxborough, 11 Jul 1791.^[7]

Deborah Butterfield and James Robbins resided in Littleton in an area later set off to Boxborough. In 1790, the household of James Robbins was two persons at Boxborough: one male 16 and over and one female.^[8]

Children

Deborah Butterfield and James Robbins were parents of five children born at Littleton.

i DEBORAH ROBBINS, b. 16 Dec 1741; d. at Boxborough, 2 Jan 1822; m. at Littleton, 14 May 1766, JOTHAM WHITCOMB, b. at Littleton, 8 Aug 1737 son of Jonathan and Deliverance (Nutting) Whitcomb; Jotham d. at Boxborough, 17 Feb 1821.

ii ELIZABETH “BETTY” ROBBINS, b. 5 Jan 1745; m. at Littleton, 21 Aug 1781, JAMES DANIELS. Nothing further was found.

iii JAMES ROBBINS, b. 2 Apr 1749; d. at Lancaster, MA, 18 Jul 1828; m. at Harvard, MA, 16 Apr 1777, ANNA WARNER.

iv BENJAMIN ROBBINS, b. 12 Feb 1753; d. at Boston, 22 Jun 1810; m. at Harvard, 13 Oct 1774, LYDIA HEALD, b. at Harvard, 3 Feb 1755 daughter of Isaac and Tamer (Whitcomb) Heald.

v MARY ROBBINS, b. 19 May 1756; d. at Boxborough, 6 Nov 1814; m. at Littleton, 2 Jan 1773, SIMEON WETHERBEE, b. about 1752 son of Silas and Elizabeth (Brown) Wetherbee; Simeon d. at Boxborough, Jan 1832. Simeon married second Anna Taylor on 29 Feb 1816.

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-Y6FP : 20 May 2022), Deborah Buterfield, 18 Aug 1714; citing Birth, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004934227.
2. ↑ Robins, Deborah, w. James, Dec. 14, 1786, a. 70 y. 3 m. 3 d. GR1; Boxborough Vital Records; https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Boxborough/Images/Boxborough_D072.shtml
3. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHR8-MB9 : 20 May 2022), Deborah Butterfield in entry for James Robbins, 9 Dec 1740; citing Marriage, Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009581.
4. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-FDWG : 18 October 2022), James Robins, 19 Feb 1716; citing Birth, , Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011182.
5. ↑ Hughes, American Ancestry, volume 9, p 103
6. ↑ Sprague and Robbins, “Untangling the Evidence for Two Early Massachusetts Robbins Families”, NEHGR, 1998, p 112
7. ↑ Robins, James, July 11, 1791, a. 74 y. 4 m. 9 d. GR1; Boxborough Vital Records; https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Boxborough/Images/Boxborough_D072.shtml
8. ↑ The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, DC; First Census of the United States, 1790.; Year: 1790; Census Place: Boxborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Series: M637; Roll: 4; Page: 103; Family History Library Film: 0568144

• Hughes, Thomas Patrick. 1894. American Ancestry: Giving Name and Descent, in the Male Line, of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the United States Previous to the Declaration of Independence, AD 1776, Volume 9. Albany, NY: Munsell.
• Sprague, Eleanor Robbins, and Andrew West Robbins. 1998. "Untangling the Evidence for Two Early Massachusetts Robbins Families: George of Chelmsford (1657) and Robert of Concord (1671)." New England Historical and Genealogical Register 152: 83-114.

Acknowledgment

• Profile created on 19 April 2012 by William Ramage