Chloe (Robbins) Dunton (1773 - 1856)

Born 11 Sep 1773 in Walpole, Suffolk, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Samuel Bartlett Jr — married 15 Oct 1794 (to 6 Nov 1805) in Union, Lincoln, District of Maine, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 22 Apr 1856 at age 82 in Hope, Waldo, Maine, United States

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Biography

Chloe Robbins, daughter of David Robbins and Elizabeth (Chapman) Robbins, was born on 11 September 1773, in Walpole, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay (now Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts).^[1] A few years after she was born, her family removed to the area of Sterlington Plantation/Taylortown, in the Province of Maine, where they were the first settling family of what would become Union, Lincoln, Massachusetts, in the District of Maine. She grew up there in the Maine wilderness. In those days everything was brought up river to the settlements. There were no roads, only footpaths between the houses.

A detailed account of the Robbins family's settlement of what would become the present day town of Union, Knox, Maine can be found in the works of John Langdon Sibley and others, which were the basis for the historical novel Come Spring by Ben Ames Williams, a fictional account of the Robbins family.^[2][3][4]

Chloe married, on 15 October 1794, in Union, Samuel Bartlett Jr (8 children).^[5] After Samuel died in 1805, Chloe married, on 1 September 1806, in Maine, Abnur Dunton (7 children).^[6] Chloe passed away on 22 April 1856, in Union. ^[7][8]

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ9H-PHY : 10 December 2019), Chloe Robbins, 1773.
2. ↑ Sibley, John Langdon. A History of the Town of Union, in the County of Lincoln, Maine: To the Middle of the Nineteenth Century; With a Family Register of the Settlers Before the Year 1800, and of Their Descendants (pp. 36-41 & 488-490 Robbins family, also mentioned throughout the entire book). B. B. Mussey and Company, 1851. Retrieved from https://books.google.com/books?id=LWwUAAAAYAAJ
3. ↑ Fish, George Willoughby. Union, Past and Present: an Illustrated History of the Town of Union, Maine, from Earliest Times to Date. Union Weekly Times, 1895. Retrieved from Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=4K4TAAAAYAAJ
4. ↑ Williams, Ben Ames. Come Spring. Sun Dial Press, 1945.
5. ↑ "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F46P-F2K : 10 February 2018), Samuel Bartlett and Chloe Robbins, 15 Oct 1794; citing Union, Knox, Maine, reference 306; FHL microfilm 12,269.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6V4-KQG : 29 October 2019), Chloe Dunton in household of John B Dunton, Hope, Waldo, Maine, United States; citing family 12, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
7. ↑ "Maine, Nathan Hale Cemetery Collection, ca. 1780-1980," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJ5-74SR : 16 March 2018), Chloe Dunton, 1856; citing Hope, Knox, Maine, United States, Metcalf Cemetery, Maine State Library, Augusta; FHL microfilm 1,315,194.
8. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2BB-1PBQ : 10 March 2017), Chloe Dunton, 1856; Burial, Hope, Knox, Maine, United States of America, Hope Grove Cemetery; citing record ID 176543770, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

• DeLue, Willard. The Story of Walpole: 1724 to 1924. Ambrose Press, Norwood, 1925.

• Robbins, Dana Watkins. History of the Robbins Family of Walpole, Massachusetts, Descendants of William and Priscilla Robbins (pp. 240-249 digital/152-161 print Philip Robbins and pp. 270-273 digital/182-185 print David Robbins). Oscar Burton Robbins of Loveland Colorado, and the Robbins Genealogical Society of Salt Lake City, Utah, 1949. FamilySearch International. Retrieved from Family Search Library https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/426597-history-of-the-robbins-family-of-walpole-massachusetts-descendants-of-william-and-priscilla-robbins

Footnotes

Acknowledgments

• Come Spring by Ben Ames Williams

• History of Union by John Langdon Sibley

• Union Past and Present by George Willoughby Fish

• The Story of Walpole by Willard DeLue

• Thomaston by Eaton

• Annals of Warren by Eaton

• History of Maine by Williamson

• History of the Robbins Family of Walpole by Dana Watkins Robbins

• The Johnston Family of Maine with Allied Lines - collected by Barbara Gibson Bennett (1971)