Mehitable ROBBINS

Mehitable married Capt Josiah BELDEN on 31 Jan 1759 in Wethersfield, Connecticut. Josiah (son of Josiah BELDEN and Mabel WRIGHT) was born on 11 Jun 1713 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; was christened on 14 Jun 1713 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 18 Oct 1788 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Lucy WOLCOTT on 5 Feb 1712/3 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Lucy (daughter of Hon. Samuel WOLCOTT and Judith APPLETON) was born on 16 Oct 1688 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 5 Nov 1753 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Son of John and Mary Robbins

John married Mary BOREMAN on 24 Apr 1675. Mary (daughter of Samuel BOREMAN and Mary BETTS) was born on 14 Feb 1644/5; died on 19 May 1721. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Son of Henry Wolcott and Sarah Newberry of Windsor, Conn.
• Birth: 16 Apr 1656
• Fact 1: 1679, Constable
• Fact 2: 1685, Selectman
• Fact: Oct 1685, Deputy to the General Court

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He settled in Wethersfield where he was a merchant and a constable there in 1679. Samuel was a representative to the General Court in 1685. He owned a large piece of land a mile west of Wethersfield where he built a one room house on a hill. His sons built nearby and the hill became known as 'Wolcott Hill'.

Samuel married Judith APPLETON on 6 Mar 1677/8 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Judith (daughter of Col. Samuel APPLETON and Hannah PAINE) was born about 1652. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Son of John and Hester Rollins

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The country home of this family was at Hedingworth, Leicestershire England, where lived John Robbins and his wife Hester. As the parish church of that village was burned about 1600, and with it the parish records previous to that time, but little can be learned about the family, except that John Robbins was a large land owner; that, according to his monument, still existing in the churchyard at Hedingworth, he d. 12 Aug., 1680, and was buried "according to an Act of Parliament" (whatever that may mean), and that, as appears by the parish register, Hester, his wife, was buried 7 Aug. 1697; also, that they had six sons, four of whom emigrated to America about the time of the great Puritan exodus hither.

John "Gent" first appears on the Weth. Recs. in 1638, though he may have come there two or three yrs. earlier. He was evidently a man of means, and of good social standing, as vouched for by the term "Gentleman," affixed to his name in all the early records. 10 Oct., 1638 he purchased land at Pyquang (weth.) including "20 acres of (Adventurers' land)" from John Clark, then of Quillipiack, (New Haven) - Weth ld. recs. II, 23. He was a townsman (selectman) 1652; member of General Court, 1653, 1565, '57, '59, and dying 27 June 1660, left an est. if L579-19-4; He m. Mary (dau. it has been said of Gov. Thomas & Elizabeth Welles, who d. "abt. middle part of Sept., 1659" - Weth. Rec.

QUERY - Mary, 7th ch. and dau. of Gov. Thomas Welles, was . about 1634; and acc. t Goodwin, "d. before her father." She was married and left ch. mentioned in his will; but if she m. John Robbins, Sen., would have been only 15 yeas old at date of John, r., his fourth ch. and eld. son. Is it not more prb. that the Mary Welles who m. John Robbins, Gent., might have been a sister of Gov. Welles?

John married Mary ?. Mary died in Sep 1659. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Son of Christopher Boreman and Julian Carter

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Samuel Boreman of Wethersfield, Conn., son of Christopher and Julian (Carter) Boreman of Claydon, near Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, was born in Banbury in 1615, and baptized there Aug. 20, 1615.

He removed with his father's family about 1619, from Banbury to Claydon, their early home. he married, date unknown, Mary Betts, daughter of John and Mary Betts, who were of Claydon in 1627, and afterwards emigrated to New England, where the mother, then the "Widoe" Mary Betts, had a portion in the first grants of land in Hartford, Conn, and died there in the summer of 1647, being then called "the School Dame."

Samuel Boreman's first appearance as a settler in New England is at Ipswich, Mass., where, in a list of inhabitants without date, he is called a cooper, and has land recorded to him, Aug. 22, 1639. He was no doubt in the country some time before this date, having very possibly arrived the preceding summer, when, as we learn fromGovernor Winthrop's Journal, very many came over. Among the twenty ships which arrived that season, was one called the "New supply, alias the Nicholas" of London, in which came Mr. John Josslyn, Gent., who kept a journal of this voyage, and also of one taken some years later, both of which were published in London in 1675. It is not only interesting, but curious, that Josselyn, who gives the names of very few on board, including those of not more than two or thee of the 164 passengers, should have happened to mention among the latter one called Boreman; he says:

"Anno Dom. 1638 April the 26, being Thursday, I came to Gravesend and went aboard the new Supply alias the Nicholas of London, a Ship of good force, 300 tons burthen, carrying 20 Sacret and minion, man'd with 48 sailors. The Master, Robert Taylor, the Merchant or Undertake, Mr. Edward Tings, with 164 passengers, men, women, and children."

Further he says: " On the eighth day, one Boreman's man, a passenger, was duck'd at the main yards Arm (for being drunk with his master's strong waters which he stole) thrice, and fire given to two whole Sacree at that instant."

Samuel married Mary BETTS. Mary was born about 1623 in England; died in Aug 1684. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of John and Mary Betts

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He came to America with his parents and was a member of the Dorchester Church when he was made Freeman at Boston, April 1, 1634; removed to Windsor, 1636. His name appears on the records of the Conn. Colony as early as 1638, when Henry Wolcott the younger, was "chosen to receive for Windsor the Indian con brought in", and to "keepe one exact account of what every man hath," etc. (Col Rec. of Conn., 1, p. 18). In1654, he went to England on business and again in 1671; was an importing merchant; much engaged in public life; is mentioned in the Royal Charter of Connecticut as one of the nineteen prominent men of the colony. He became a member of the House of Deputies at October session, 1660 and served at the March, May, June and August sessions of 1661. At the may session of 1662, he was a member of the House of Magistrates, to which he was annually re-elected till his death. Was of the Council of Military Affairs during King Philip's War. he wrote shorthand and preserved many items of Windsor History. It was he who took notes of a lecture delivered by Rev. Thomas Hooke, May 31, 1638, before the General Court, in which was outlined the Constitution of Connecticut, the first written constitution known to history, and the one which more than any other, formed the basis for the Constitution of the United States. His notebook is now in the possession of the conn. Hist. Society. He gave much attention to fruit culture, was prominent in church matters and left a large estate here and in England. His Wethersfield land went to his sons, Samuel of Wethersfield and Josiah of Windsor.

Henry married Sarah NEWBERRY on 18 Nov 1641. Sarah (daughter of Thomas NEWBERRY and Joane DABINOTT) was born about 1622; died on 16 Jul 1684. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Dau. of thomas and Jane Newberry of Dorcester, Mass.

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He became a freeman on 26 Sep 1648 and was Commander-in-Chief in King Philip's War. Samuel was Deputy to the General Court in 1668 under the title of Lieutenant Samuel Appleton, and from 1669-1671 and 1673. He was elected assistant from 1681 to 1686, six years, and was one of the first council under the charter of William and Mary in 1692. A record in the Massachusetts Files in 1675 indicates that "On 24th September ordered, that a commission be issued forth to Captain Samuel Appleton, to command a foot company of 100 men." which was prompted by the Indian war, called King Philip's War, which began that year. Samuel was appointed on 4 Oct. 1675 "Command in Chief, of the army in those parts, by whose industry, skill, and courage," says Hubbard, his neighbour, "those towns were preserved from running the same fate with the rest, wholly or in part so lately turned into ashes." Samuel "did not escape the persecution of Sir Edmund Andros and his tools, probably on account of the freedom of speech, in which he denounced his (Andros) arbitrary assumption of power." He died "after a career of great civil and military distinction." His will dated 12 Apr 1695 was proved 25 May 1696.

Headstone Inscription:

Here Lyeth Buried
ye Body of
Colo Samuel Appleton
Aged 70 Years
Decd May ye 15th
1696

He came from England with his father in 1635 and became a man of the highest repute in the military and civil service. Representative in 1660, and often after until 1681, when he was made an Assistant, in which office he was continued until the over-throw of the King Charles Government in1686. In 1675, he was made Commander-in-chief of the Massachusetts forces in the west against King Philip and for the defense of the frontier towns against the Indians; he was several times successful in repelling them and saving the towns. When hatfield was attacked oct 19, 1675, a bullet passed through his hair and a sergeant was killed at his side. When succeeded by Major Savage, as commander of the forces on the Connecticut River, he was transferred to the expedition against the Narragansetts, commanding all the Massachusetts men in that expedition and at the Great Battle. for his resolute support of the people against the unlawful taxation in 1687 he was imprisoned by Gov. Andros for three months. In the new charter of William and Mary, 1691, he was made one of the council, though he did not retain the office after the following election. He was justice in Quarterly and General Sessions Court, and also of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, (April 11, 1692), for the trial of persons charged with witchcraft. He ably and faithfully performed his diversified duties as legislator and judge and was held in the highest esteem by his contemporaries.

Samuel married Hannah PAINE on 2 Apr 1651 in Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts. Hannah was born in 1628/29 in Lavenham, co. Suffolk, England; was christened on 11 Feb 1628/29 in Lavenham, co. Suffolk, Englnad; died before 1655/56 in Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of William Paine and Anna North