Weymouth New England Genealogy

Events

Event	Date	Place	Description
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Birth	about 1640	Concord, Middlesex, MA
Death	1689-08-23	Killingly, Windham, CT

Families

Family of Robbins, George and , Mary

Married

Wife

, Mary ( * + 1672-09-24 )

Event	Date	Place	Description	Notes	Sources
Marriage	before 1667

Children

Name	Birth Date	Death Date
Robbins, Mary	1667-09-01
Robbins, Phillip	1669/70-01-29 (Julian)	1687/8-02-19 (Julian)
Robbins, John	about 1672-09-00	1762-08-10

Family of Robbins, George and , Alice

Married

Wife

, Alice ( * + 1686-11-25 )

Event	Date	Place	Description	Notes	Sources
Marriage	1680-11-25	Chelmsford, Middlesex, MA

Children

Name	Birth Date	Death Date
Robbins, George	about 1675	1747-07-24
Robbins, Sarah	about 1677	1741/2-02-22 (Julian)
Robbins, Samuel	1679/80-01-02 (Julian)	1764-09-04
Robbins, Eleazer	1682	1758-09-13
Robbins, Benjamin	1684-05-30	1770-09-03
Robbins, Joseph	1686-11-19
Robbins, Jonathan	1686-11-19	1725-05-08

Family of Robbins, George and Barrett, Mary

Married

Wife

Barrett, Mary ( * 1658-04-17 + ... )

Event	Date	Place	Description	Notes	Sources
Marriage	1686/7-01-21 (Julian)	Probably Chelmsford, Middlesex, MA			1a 2a

Children

Name	Birth Date	Death Date
Robbins, Thomas	1687-10-27	1768-05-06

Narrative

Before 1666, George obtained a grant in the settlementChelmsford, Massachusetts. In 1671, George applied to theChelmsford Selectmen to lay out a "highway to mill and meetinghouse." He was married three times and had eleven children. In1675, he was arrested for killing helpless Indians nearPawtucket Falls in Lowell, but was acquitted due to lack ofevidence.From "Early Chelmsford" in Chelmsford local paper:"The meadows upon the great brook early attracted settlements inthe southern part of town, in what is now Carlisle. In thatneighborhood lived John Barrett, George Robbins, Thomas Cory andothers. In 1671 the town laid out a highway for the inhabitantsof Greeat Brook and others to travel to mill and meeting house."George Robbins was probably the first owner of Robbins farm inNorth Carlisle, which was originally a part of Chelmsford. Ithas been lived upon continuously by his descendants until thisgeneration (nine generations) and is still owned by adescendant< Mr. Arthur G. Robbins of Winchester, Massachusetts.(Elizabeth Robbins Berry.)George Robbins is mentioned incidentally in an entry in theNotebook of the Reverend John Fiske of Chelmsford: NathanielShiply, called before the church on 1 November 1657 ofr"notorious lying," acknowledged falsehoods about Goodwife Byam,saying that "he spoke there [sic] and their substance to GeorgeRobbins." In this context, it seems possible that both werequite young men at the time.The George Robbins farm was located in the southern part ofChelmsford near Great Brook, where George owned a mill, nearwhat is now Curve Street in North Carlisle.In 1671, a highway "to mill and meeting house" was laid nearGreat Brook for the accomodation of John Barrett, Thomas Cory,George Robbins, and Ambrose Swallow. During King Phillip's War,the Robbins house was one of the garrison houses in town.Late in 1675, a group of settlers from Chelmsford attacked anIndian village near Pawtucket Falls (now Lowell), woudingseveral women and killing one child. At a Court of Assistantsheld at Boston 19 November 1675, Jonathan Largin and GeorgeRobbins were accused of firing their loaded guns into a crowd ofIndians at the Falls. Owing to a lack of evidence, however, thecourt found them not guilty.On 25 February 1677/1678, George purchased "Medow land" inBillerica from George Farley and his wife, Christian, ofBillerica. One meadow was bounded by the COncord line, and theother, called "Brook medow," was nearer Chelmsford. The deed forthese pieces of property was not recorded until 17 January1710/1711. In 1686, George Robbins was named in a deed as one ofthe 50 proprietors of former (Wamesit) Indian lands nearChelmsford.George Robbins of Chelmsford, in his will dated 19 February1688/1689, witnessed by Samuel Meriam, Juda Potter, and JosephEstabrook, Jr. and proved 1 October 1689, bequeathed as follows:"... I give to my beloved wife Mary [£20] in corn or cattle atcountry price as it goes between man & man this to be payd untohir foure years after my death. To my three sons Samuel Eliazer& Benjamin I give [£10] to each of them: also to my son JonathanI give [£10]: also to Tho: my son I give [£5] these legacyes tobe payd them in corn or cattle when they become to be of age:also to my daughter Sarah I give my feather-bed with itsfurniture & also [£10] ... and to my daughter Mary I give [£10]half of it in household goods & the other half in corn orcattle: also to my son Phillip I give half my medow which Ibought of Georg Farly of Bilerica lying by Concord road & twelveacres of upland lying by Sam Barret: item to my two sons John &Georg I give all the rest of my lands equally to be dividedamong themselves as they shal agree: finally I constitute & makemy sons John & Georg to be executors of this my last will &testament ...The inventory, dated 23 August 1689 and valued at £191 8s, wastaken by John perham, Eleazer Brown, and Ephraim Hildreth. Oneof the items valued was George's "intrest in ye medow & upalndin the wamaset & pactucat feeld." Some of the property remainedin the family for several generations. One of the last ownerswas Arthur Graham Robbins (1862 - 1947) [descended from GeorgeH., Ephraim, Jonas, John, George].For additional notes on some of George's family, see E.R.Sprague, "Robbins Relatives: George Robbins of Chelmsford,Massachusetts in 1667 and Some of His Descendants at Stow,Massachusetts" p. 1-127.

Pedigree

1. Robbins, George

Source References

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Birth Name	Robbins, George
Gender	male
Age at Death	about 49 years, 7 months, 22 days