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Name: Jacob ROBBINS
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Birth: 1776 Edgecombe Co. NC
Death: bef Nov 1861 Edgecombe Co. NC
Father: Jacob ROBBINS
(1737->1807)
Mother: Mary McMULLINS
(1728->1784)
Spouse: Nancy UNKNOWN
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Birth: abt 1784 Edgecombe Co NC
Death: bef 1861 Edgecombe Co NC
Children:
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1 M: Benjamin F ROBBINS
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2 F: Mary (Polly) ROBBINS
Birth: 1803
Spouse: William ADAMS JR
Marriage: 10 Jan 1839 Edgecombe Co. NC
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3 F: Nancy ROBBINS
Birth: 1812 Edgecombe Co. NC
Spouse: John DAWS
Marriage: 18 Feb 1826 Edgecombe Co. NC
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4 M: Jacob Dawson ROBBINS
Birth: 1819 Edgecombe Co. NC
Death: 1859 Near Joiner's Depot Wilson Co NC
Spouse: Frances Ann SKINNER
Marriage: 10 Nov 1837 Edgecombe Co. NC
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5 F: Delilah ROBBINS
Birth: Edgecombe Co NC
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Notes for Jacob Robbins Family
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THE ROBBINS FAMILY OF EDGECOMBE, NASH AND WILSON
COUNTIES NORTH CAROLINA COMPILED BY HUGH BUCKNER JOHNSTON EDITED
AND PUBLISHED BY
LOUISE MATTHEWS FULLER
1520 Lafayette Ave. Rocky Mount, NC 27803
p. 57, 58:
Jacob Robbins, (Jr.) son of Jacob Robbins and
wife Mary McMullins was born in
Edgecombe County, North Carolina in 1776, and
was listed with Dawson
Cobb in the Edgecombe County Census of 1850.
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On November 18, 1803, Mills (x) Robbins
of Edgecombe County sold Jacob
Robbins (Jr.) for £l43.l5.0 a tract of 250
acres adjoining Edward Cobb and Jacob
Robbins, Sr., witnessed by William Draughon and
Littleberry Land.
(Deed Book 11, p. 143)
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On June 3, 1820, Hardy Flowers sold Jacob
Robbins (Jr.) for $58.50 a tract
of 19½ acres north of Town Creek on Tobie's
Branch adjoining said Robbins,
witnessed by William D. Pettaway and Briton Williford.
(Deed Book 17, p. 177)
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On September 12, 1833, Clerk Isaac Norfleet
sold Jacob Robbins (Jr.) for
$230.00, on the petition of Duncan Robbins and
others that the land be
sold for division, 348 acres that Elisha Robbins
died possessed of
adjoining David Williams, Burwell Land, and Hardy
Flowers, witnessed by
James M. Redmond.
(Deed Book 21, p. 90)
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On May 29, 1835, Sheriff William D. Petway
sold Jacob Robbins (Jr.) for
$462.00 a tract of 171¼ acres of Hardy
Flowers's land north of Town
Creek adjoining Dempsey S. Eason, Ruffin, Beland,
said Robbins, and
Tobie's Branch, witnessed by Hardy Flowers.
(Deed Book 21, p. 300)
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On April 10, 1838, James Barnes, executor
of Reddick Barnes, sold Jacob
Robbins(Jr.)for $440.00 a tract of 280 acres north
of Town Creek
adjoining Reddick Barnes and the new road, mortgaged
by Duncan L.
Flowers to Reddick Barnes and including the widow
Elizabeth Flowers's
dower which was not conveyed by said deed.
(Deed Book 22, p. 257)
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On January 1, 1841, Jacob Robbins (Jr. )deeded
to his son Jacob D. Robbins
for love 280 acres north of Town Creek adjoining
Armstrong, Duncan L.
Flowers, the new road, and Barnes, but excepting
the dower of Elizabeth
Flowers, witnessed by W.D. Petway.
(Deed Book 22, p. 551)
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Will and Estate of Jacob Robbins
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On January 30, 1847, the will of Kinchen Edwards
of Edgecombe County be-
queathed land adjoining Jacob Robbins, (Jr.)
and Jacob D. Robbins was a
witness.
February 28, 1860
Jacob (x) Robbins, (Jr.) made his will in Edgecombe
County on February 28,
1860, and it was probated in November Court, 1861:
(1) Benjamin F. Robbins, the home tract of about
150 acres adjoining Kinchen Edwards;
(2) grandson Wells Daws, my brother Elisha Robbins's
old tract adjoining John Whitehead;
(3) daughter Polly, wife of William Adams, use
of 3 slaves;
(4) granddaughter Crecy, wife of Jordan Joiner,
reversional interest in slaves left to Polly Adams;
(5) daughter Nancy, wife of John Daws, use of
3 slaves, then to her children; gift of the proceeds from
the sale of 3 other slaves;
(6) granddaughter Mary Matilda, wife of Hilliard
Taylor, use of a slave, then to her children;
(7) granddaughter Susannah, wife of Frank Barnes,
use of a slave, then to her children;
(8) granddaughter Fanny, wife of William Proctor,
use of a slave;
(9) grandson Miles Daws, one slave;
(10) granddaughter Delilah Daws, one slave;
(11) granddaughter Nancy Daws, one slave;
(12) grandson Willis Daws, one slave;
(13) horse, buggy, cattle, and residue of the
estate to be sold; the notes and accounts to be collected;
after debts are paid,
all to go equally to the children of John and Nancy Daws;
executor R.H. Gatlin; witnesses R.H.
Gatlin, James S. Braswell, and Theophilus Moore.
(Edgecombe Co., NC Will Book G, p. 205)
Executor R. H. Gatlin made the following inventory
of the property of Jacob Robbins,(Jr.) on January 8, 1861:
wagon axletree, cart, barrel, some hoes, 3 shovels;
gray horse, cow and calf, heifer; razor and strap,
buggy and harness, umbrella, bed and stead, blanket,
3 counterpanes, chest, shot gun; 2 jugs, some bottles, chamber bucket,
pair of flat irons, some boxes and contents, tub, half-bushel; knives and
forks,
pitcher, decanter, iron pot, pot rack, dipper,
scraper; some old iron, 2 coulters, hames, cooper's tools, grindstone,
handsaw, 2 cut saws; 5 barrels of corn.
(Inventories & Accounts of Sales, 1851-1861, pp. 1010/1011)
Purchasers at the public sale of the personal property
were:
P. H. Robbins, John W. Robbins, Robert Braswell,
R. B. Braswell, Ezra Bullock, R. H. Armstrong, James H. Armstrong, Irvin
Cobb, Nathan Gay, R. H. Gatlin, C. H. Flowers, Robert Flood, E. H. Flowers,
Francis Barnes, William Proctor, Matilda Taylor, William Sharp, W. G. Sharp,
John Wells,
Greenberry Williams, Penina Weaver, Jesse Dixon,
Alfred Daughtridge, John Daws, Miles Daws, Hill Daws, R. B. Davis, and
Miles Davis.
R. H. Gatlin reported that Jacob Robbins ,(Jr.)
owned 400 acres of land (the home tract 250 acres and the Dixon tract 150
acres) and 19 slaves. The cash on hand came to $162.71, the money realized
from the sale was $2,009.94, and the notes and claims totaled $2,158.28.
In February, 1867, Gatlin reported to the Edgecombe
County Court that the net amount of the estate since 1861 was $5,193.37.
(Inventories & Accounts of Sales, 1861-1867,
pp. 618/619)