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     Thomas Robie was baptised on 26 April 1730 having been born posthumously.² He was a A merchant of Marblehead, Massachusetts. As a Loyalist he went first to Halifax, and thence to England, but returned to the United States.³ He was the son of Thomas Robie and Mehitable Sewall.¹ Thomas Robie married Mary Bradstreet, daughter of Rev. Simon Bradstreet 3rd and Mary (Unknown) widow Hills, on 26 July 1759 in Marblehead, Massachusetts.⁴ Thomas Robie died in 1811 in Salem.⁵

     Thomas Robie was born on 20 March 1688/89 in Boston.² He was the son of William Robie and Elizabeth Greenough.² Thomas Robie married Mehitable Sewall, daughter of Major Stephen Sewall and Margaret Mitchell, on 17 January 1722/23 in Salem, Massachusetts.³ Thomas Robie died on 28 August 1729 in Salem at the age of 40.^4,2

Graduating in 1708, and obtaining his A.M. in 1711, he acted the next year (1712-13) as Librarian. In April, 1714, he was chosen "fellow of the House," as tutors at that time were called; and eight years later (7 April, 1722) was elected " fellow of the Corporation." This was the time, under President Leverett, of the controversy over the right of the resident fellows, or tutors, to be also members of the Corporation. It may have been partly this controversy that led Robie to resign his position in the College in February, 1722-3. He had preached occasionally, but a report "that his sermons were only heathenish discourses, no better Christianity than was in Tully," caused him finally to withdraw from the pulpit. He then became a physician and settled in Salem.

Thomas Robie was a man of good scientific attainments; many of his papers on mathematical and physical subjects were published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. He was " a handsome writer; specimens of his scientific abilities, and his manner of composing, may be found scattered in the magazines and newspapers during 20 years of the 18th century." President Leverett wrote of him: "It ought to be remembered that Mr. Robie was no small honor to Harvard College by his mathematical performances, and by his correspondence thereupon with Mr. Durham and other learned persons in those studies abroad." Besides his contributions to periodicals and societies, Robie published little. He edited several numbers of an almanac and a few years before his resignation printed a "Sermon preached in the College at Cambridge, to a society of young students.⁵"

     Thomas Robie was baptised on 6 March 1774 at Marblehead, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Thomas Robie and Mary Bradstreet.¹ Thomas Robie died on 3 January 1792 in Marblehead, Massachusetts, at the age of 17.¹

     William Robie was born in 1648.² He married Elizabeth Greenough before 19 October 1687 in Boston.^1,3 William Robie died in 1718.²

     William Robie was baptised on 28 March 1725 died young.¹ He was the son of Thomas Robie and Mehitable Sewall.¹

     Mary Robins married John Porter.

     Anne Matilda Robinson married Chauncey G. Austin.¹

     Edward Randolph Robinson married Augusta Jay, daughter of John Jay and Eleanor Kingsland Field, on 3 October 1867 three children.¹

     Elizabeth Robinson was born in 1798.¹ She married Jeremiah Clement Cleveland, son of Rev. Aaron Porter Cleveland and Elizabeth Clement.¹ Elizabeth Robinson died in 1865.¹

     Elizabeth Robinson married Robert Tindal, son of Captain George Tindal R.N. and Diana Pocklington, on 19 December 1820 in St. Andrew Undershaft, London.¹ Elizabeth Robinson died on 10 May 1859 at 2 Kingston Square, Bath.²

     Hannah Robinson was born in 1707.¹ She was the daughter of Timothy Robinson.¹ Hannah Robinson married William Hussey, son of Richard Hussey.² Hannah Robinson died in 1793.¹

     Margaret Duncan Robinson was born on 24 February 1870 in St. Louis County, Missouri.¹ She was the daughter of Archibald Robinson.¹ Margaret Duncan Robinson married Winslow Hoxton Randolph, son of Rev. Buckner Magill Randolph and Mary Semmes Hoxton, on 9 July 1896.¹

     Martha C. Robinson was born circa 9 December 1818.² She was the daughter of Nathan Robinson and Eunice B. (Unknown).² Martha C. Robinson married Edward Clarke Cabot, son of Samuel Cabot and Elizabeth Perkins, on 7 July 1842 in Salem, Massachusetts.¹ Martha C. Robinson died on 28 November 1871 in Brookline, Massachusetts, of consumption.²

     Mary Helen Robinson married Emerson Titcomb, son of Samuel Titcomb.¹

     Nathan Robinson married Eunice B. (Unknown).

     R. Jane Robinson was born on 14 June 1832 in Boxford.^1,2 She was the daughter of Benjamin Robinson.² R. Jane Robinson married Samuel George Cooper, son of Samuel Thatcher Cooper and Elizabeth Hawley, on 30 September 1854.¹

     Sylvia Tobey Robinson was born circa 1877 in Massachusetts.² She married Edgar Daniel Sewall, son of Charles Edgar Sewall and Martha E. Kingsley, circa 1904.²

     Josephine Robson was born in August 1859 in California.¹ She was the daughter of Elizabeth (Unknown).³ Josephine Robson married David Henry Sewall, son of David Sewall and Mary Celeste Eldridge, on 2 February 1884 in San Francisco, California, the service was conducted by the Rev. F.F. Jewell, D.D. In the notice of the marriage the bride is descibed as "of Colma, San Mateo county."⁴ Josephine Robson and David Henry Sewall appear on the census of 1920 at Redwood, California, recorded as lodgers in the house of a George N. Tyler.⁵

     Sarah Robson married Rev. William Harvey Heudebourck.¹

     Aenor de Rochefoucauld was the daughter of Aimery I de Rochefoucauld Viscount de Châtellérhault.¹ Aenor de Rochefoucauld married (?) William X, Duke of Aquitane.¹

     Ann of Rockhill was the daughter of Geoffrey of Rockhill.¹ Ann of Rockhill married Thomas Hopton of Rockhill thereby acquiring the estate of Rockhill through Ann who was sole heir.¹

     Melinda Wheeler Rockwood was the daughter of William Emerson Rockwood and Persis Abbot.¹ Melinda Wheeler Rockwood married Edmund (Ned) Quincy Abbot, son of William Fitzhale Abbot and Caroline Ward Sewall, on 7 May 1918 in Brown's Mills, New Jersey.¹

     William Emerson Rockwood married Persis Abbot.

     Elmina A. Roe was born circa 1807 in New York.¹