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- Family Group Sheet for John Robbins
Names in Blue are linked to their family group sheet Name: John ROBBINS Sr
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Birth: bef 1710 Westmoreland Co Yorktown, VA
Death: 11 Aug 1756 Edgecombe Co. NC
Occupation: Planter
Alias/AKA: John Robins VII
Father: John ROBINS SR. (~1698-)
Mother: UNKNOWN
Marriage: 1737
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Spouse: Elizabeth UNKNOWN
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Birth: abt 1712
Death: aft 11 Aug 1756 Edgecombe Co NCChildren:
----------------------------------------- 1 M: William ROBBINS
Birth: abt 1739
Spouse: Elizabeth UNKNOWN
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2 M: Jacob ROBBINS
Birth: 1737 Edgecombe Co. NC
Death: aft 1807 Edgecombe Co. NC
Spouse: Mary McMULLINS
Marriage: 1765 Edgecombe Co. NC
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3 M: Thomas ROBBINS
Birth: abt 1726***************************************************************************************************************************
Notes for the John Robbins Family:
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from "The Robbins Family of Edgecombe, Nash and Wilson Counties,
North Carolina" compiled by Hugh Buckner Johnston, Edited and Published by Louise Matthews Fuller.''John Robbins, son of____________ Robbins and wife ___________, may have come from Accomack County, Virginia, where an old and prominent family of this surname had resided since early Colonial times. However, the earliest definite record of the present John Robbins was found in Bertie County, North Carolina in 1739.''
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''John Robbins was apparently born as early as the year 1700, since he had a son about grown in 1739 and a grandson born in 1745. He disposed of all his real and personal property before his death, and left no will, so it is unlikely that an inventory was taken after his death. His wife was named Elizabeth, but only extraordinary luck will reveal anything concerning her parentage, birth, or death. It is not impossible that an examination of the earliest Edgecombe County Court Minutes would reveal some mention of John or Elizabeth Robbins.''***************************************************************************************************************************
On May 6, 1739, John Robins, Planter, of Bertie County, paid David (DJ) Jornegan, Planter, £20 for a tract of 100 acres W. of Chowan River (from Richard Holland's patent dated April 1, 1723) adjoining Gum Pond and the River Pocoson, witnessed by William Robins and James Manny.
(Deed Book C, p. 372; Deed Book F, p. 4)***************************************************************************************************************************
On May 6, 1739, John Robins, Planter, of Bertie County, paid John Drewry, Planter, of Craven County, £70 in North Carolina bills for 100 acres (from a grant to John Davison on April 1, 1723) east of the branch that leads into the Miry Meadow and along the John Hobbs line, witnessed by William Robins and James Manny.
(Deed Book C, p. 374; Deed Book F, p. 5)Bertie County that was cut off to form Northampton County in 1741.
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On January 29, 1742/43, John (J) Robins, Planter, of Northampton County, sold merchant James Maney for £l5 Virginia Currency 100 acres west of Chowan River and bounded by a branch, Gum Pond, and the River Pocoson witnessed by John Page and William Wiggins.
(Deed Book 1, p. 70)***************************************************************************************************************************
On March 5, 1744/45, John (J) Robens, Planter, of Edgecombe County, sold James Maney for £l8 Virginia Currency 100 acres bounded by John Hobbs and a branch and a pocoson. witnessed by Arthur Williams, John Bynum, and Elias Ballard.
(Deed Book 1, p. 118)***************************************************************************************************************************
On August 11, 1756, John (x) and Elizabeth Robbins of Edgecombe County deeded to Jacob Robbins all their real and personal property, goods, and chattels, excepting one feather bed and furniture, one dish, one basin, and one plate, "if the said Jacob Robbins do maintain me the said John Robbins and my wife Elizabeth Robbins in cleanly and decent manner allowing us sufficient apparel and diet during our being in this life and at our death to allow us a decent and Christian burial," witnessed by Duncan Lamon and William (x) Boyat.
(Halifax County Deed Book 6, p. 344) (Halifax Co. formed from Edgecombe in 1758)***************************************************************************************************************************
On February 15, 1761, John Robins, Planter, was granted 154 acres south of Town Creek in St. Mary's Parish.
(Patent Book 11, p. 257; Deed Book 8, p. 738)On January 7, 1763, John (x) Robins, Planter, of Edgecombe County, sold Thomas White, Planter, for £40 current Virginia Money 154 acres south of Town Creek, witnessed by Elias Fort and Robert Ruben Lehon.
(Deed Book 1, p.432)***************************************************************************************************************************
from "The Robbins Family of Edgecombe, Nash and Wilson Counties,
North Carolina" compiled by Hugh Buckner Johnston, Edited and Published by Louise Matthews Fuller.'' When Bertie County was subdivided into townships in 1868, the township in its west central area was named SNAKEBITE after a crossroad of the same name situated near the center of the area which had probably been, as it was later, a polling place.The crossroad is called SNAKEBITE because, according to legend, one of agroup of men waiting for the muster of the militia, having nothing better todo, bit off a snake's haed. The muster of what militia, or when, is not made explicit in the legend. The name SNAKEBITE is mentioned in deeds datedaround 1840.
The mill now remembered as BURDEN's Mill was located on the Cashie Swampabout a mile and a half upstream from Lumber Bridge. In 1823 it was ownedby JESSE EASON and was known as Eason's Mill. It was a saw and grist mill. Other owners of this mill were John ROBBINS, Jeremiah BUNCH, Sheriff JohnFREEMAN, James BURDEN, William COWAN and Thomas BRIDGERS. The last two were the oners and operators of the mill when the dam broke during the heavy summer rains of 1928.
ROBBIN's Chapel, a Methodist-Episcopal church, may well have been the earliest church in the township. It was four and 1/4 miles east of Lewistonon the Lewiston-Windsor Road, rout 308, and a quarter of a mile east of thepresent Mt. OLIVE Church. Robbins' Chapel was founded by John ROBBINS wholived nearby at what later became known as the Ben GILLIAM house. The church was discontinued about 1840 and most of its members moved to St.Frances Church in Woodville.***************************************************************************************************************************