Timothy Robbins (1724 - 1778)

Born Jun 1724 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British America

Ancestors

Husband of Jane (Laha) Robbins — married 9 Mar 1753 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British America

Descendants

Died 1778 at about age 53 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States

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Biography

Private Timothy Robbins served with 2nd Regiment, Worcester County Militia, Massachusetts Militia during the American Revolution.

Timothy Robbins is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A096805.

TIMOTHY ROBBINS was born in June 1724 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts. He died in 1778 in Providence, Rhode Island.

He married (1) MERCY LAHA.

He married (2) JANE LAHA on 09 March 1753 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts. She was born about 1737. She died on 11 October 1801.

He married (3) MARY STURGIS. Marriage int.: 02 May 1852^[1]

Timothy ROBBINS and Jane LAHA had the following children:

i. JAMES ROBBINS was born on 25 December 1753 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts. Latey gives birth date as 25 Dec. 1753 (p. 4 ) and 15 Dec. 1753 (p. 7). James Robbins married and had a family, of whom no records are found. He is believed to have had Rufus, who m. Letitia (Doane) Wyman at Salmon R iver (Latey, p. 7).

ii. MERCY ROBBINS was born on 24 September 1755 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts.

iii. RICHARD ROBBINS was born on 05 September 1757 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts. He died on 05 April 1758 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts.

iv. RICHARD ROBBINS was born on 21 March 1759 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts. He married and had a family at Harwich, Mass. but no records have been found. His name appears in the 1790 census with two sons under 16 and five females (Latey, p. 7).

v. JOHN ROBBINS was born on 25 December 1760 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts. He died on 18 June 1844, age at time of death, 83 years (Latey, p. 7). John Robbins married, but the name of his wife is not known. She came from Nantucket, Mass. They moved to Fairhaven, Mass., where both John and his wife died in the same year (Latey, p. 7).

vi. HENRY ROBBINS was born on 13 March 1763 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts. He died on 04 August 1829. He married Elizabeth CROWELL on 21 October 1785 in Harwich, Massachusetts. She was born about 1761. She died on 11 September 1855.

vii. SAMUEL ROBBINS was born on 21 July 1765 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts.

viii. TAMSON ROBBINS was born on 11 July 1767 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts. She married Jonathan TRIPP on 07 December 1790 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts.

ix. TIMOTHY ROBBINS was born on 25 November 1769 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts

x. MARY ROBBINS was born on 21 July 1772 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts. She married Lemuel STUDLEY on 16 March 1794 in Dennis, Massachusetts.

xi. ELI ROBBINS was born on 26 June 1773 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts. He died on 13 July 1848 in Dennis, Massachusetts. He married Achsah KELLEY on 08 February 1798 in Harwich, Massachusetts

xii. ELIPHALET ROBBINS was born on 25 December 1776 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts. He died on 17 January 1810 in Dennis, Massachusetts. He married Betsey ROGERS in 1802. She died on 10 July 1814 in Dennis, Massachusetts.

xiii. ABIGAIL ROBBINS was born on 25 December 1776 in Dennis, Massachusetts. She married Abner STUDLEY on 01 April 1799 in Dennis, Massachusetts. He died on 05 December 1822 in Dennis, Massachusetts.

Sources

1. ↑ https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Barnstable/Barnstable/MarriagesR.html

• The Robbins Family of Cape Cod, compiled by H. N. Latey. Author: Latey, H. N. Title: The Robbins family of Cape Cod. Publisher: Yarmouthport, Mass. : C.W. Swift, 1917

• Source: Derick, Burton N. [compiler] . Dennis source records. Volume 1 : church records : transcriptions of records of the town of Dennis, Massachusetts. (South Dennis, Massachusetts : Burton Nathaniel Derick, c2004.), "Rev. Nathan Stone's Diaries." ] p . 95: [1766 January 15]

• "Dennis, Cape Cod", by Nancy Thacher Reid, in a paragraph describing casualties of the Revolutionary War, from Chapter 5 -- Titled : "In which the men of the East Parish do their duty for the new country and struggle with severe hardship at home"

• "Cemetery Inscriptions of Dennis, Massachusetts" by Burton Derick: South Dennis Congregational Church Cemetery (Old Burying Ground) (Row 2) (Slate stone, sunburst) - "Mrs. Jane, widow of Mr. Timothy Robbins she died Oct. 11, 1801 in her 67th year". On her stone: "With love divin and pure delight On faith's celeftial wing Wit h sweet repofe she took her flight For death had loft its sting." This stone is beside the stone for her son Eliphalet; both stones are "right beside the church".