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Joseph Robbins</B></I></FONT></div> <div> <I>(1728/9 - 1800)</I></div> <div> <A HREF="#timeline_1728__1800" TITLE="Acton Genealogies"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Timeline 1728 -1800</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#the_other_robbins_papers" TITLE="Acton Genealogies"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The Other Robbins Papers</B></U></A></div> <div> <B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Sign up Sheet of Acton's Militia Company</B><B>  ~ September 29, 1774</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id25_acton_men_who_served_in.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Acton Minutemen and Militia Companies "><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Acton Men who served in</B></U></A><B>  Capt. Joseph Robbins' East Acton Militia Co. ~ April 19, 1775</B></div> <div> <A HREF="#robbins_house" TITLE="Acton Genealogies"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Robbins House</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id32_robbins_house_and_return_trip.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="April 19, 1775"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">ROBBINS HOUSE AND RETURN TRIP</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#epitaph_" TITLE="Acton Genealogies"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Epitaph </B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#inventory_of_his_estate" TITLE="Acton Genealogies"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Inventory of his estate</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="#descendants_of__capt__joseph_robbins" TITLE="Acton Genealogies"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Descendants of  Capt. Joseph Robbins</B></U></A><B> </B></div> <div> <A HREF="id93_capt__joseph_robbins_jr__2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Capt. Joseph Robbins Jr."><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Capt. Joseph Robbins Jr.</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id187_capt__john_robbins.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Capt. John Robbins"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Capt. John Robbins</B></U></A><B> </B>           </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="67c01560.jpg" border=0 width="257" height="342" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Capt. Joseph Robbins</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B> <A NAME="epitaph_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></I><I><B>Epitaph</B></I>: "SACRED To the memory of Cap Joseph Robbins who died<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> with a cancer March 31, 1800 Aged 71 years." </div> <div> It is followed by a poem:<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> "Let worms devour my wasting flesh, And crumble all my bones to dust,<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT></div> <div> My God shall raise my frame anew, At the revival of the just."</div> <bR> <div> Captain Joseph Robbins is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Acton, MA</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Bookman Old Style" > <A NAME="the_other_robbins_papers"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></FONT><I><B>T</B></I><I><B>he Other Robbins Papers</B></I></div> <bR> <div> A presentation to the Acton Historical Society, concerning the 18th and 19th century papers donated to the</div> <div> Society by Joyce Robbins May 16th, 1998 pages 2, 3, 12 & 14</div> <bR> <div> <B>By Isabelle V. Choate and Elizabeth S. Conant</B></div> <bR> <div>       Who were these Robbins? The first to live in Acton was probably Nathan who died in 1764 in his 60thyear. In 1731 Nathan was a blacksmith, according to a deed written when he bought land from the Bloods. Later he was called a husbandman and in 1750 he was called a yeoman. He had the Concord Road land as well as land he had bought from Samuel and James Blood which they had drawn in the First division of Concord Village. He also owned some land in South Acton near Triangle Hall Brook and in West Acton near Elbow Meadow. He was married to Dorothy Barker of Concord and they had eleven children. The child who interests us tonight, who was given the Concord Road house and lands during his father's lifetime, was Joseph Robbins, Captain Joseph Robbins (1728-1800.) </div> <bR> <div>       What did these Robbins look like? We have two physical descriptions of Captain Joseph. One was in an 1895 newspaper article. It claimed that Capt. Robbins was six foot six in height in his stockings and was thought to have weighed about 250 pounds, and had "a voice which could be heard a mile distant." The other description claimed that he was a great strong man and well proportioned although he weighed 300 pounds. And it was this man who, at the age of 46, was willed his father Nathan's wearing apparel. Incidentally in that will of Nathan Robbins, Nathan "made his mark." He either couldn't write or he was in no condition to write. As you can note in the collected papers, his son Joseph could write. What he couldn't do was spell. </div> <bR> <div>       Joseph Robbins was a captain in the militia. James Fletcher wrote, "It is a tradition" that Capt. Robbins led a company at the end of French and Indian War (1763.) Apparently neither Fletcher nor, later, Harold Phalen could prove it. But Robbins was obviously a respected captain for some of the most exciting papers in the Robbins papers are the sign-up sheets of Acton's minutemen of September 29, 1774. </div> <bR> <div>      "We whose Names are Underwritten thinking our Selves ignorant in the Military Art and Willing to be Instructed met last Teusday and made choice of Mr. Joseph Robbins as our Capt. and Mr. Israel Heald Lieut and Mr. Robert Chaffin Insign</div> <bR> <div>        In 1788 Joseph Robbins bought 12 acres of land (part of the forge lot and part of a First Division lot) from John Barker. This land was on Nashoba Brook. On Concord Road, across from what today is called Icehouse Pond, he built a sawmill, we don't know if he had worked in a sawmill before, but we do know that he had in his possession a marvelous form for Deal, Planks, Boards, and Timber to be shipped. It was for lumber "truly and bona fide of the growth and produce of his Majesty's Plantation in North America. " Robbins may have had it because he had been a constable or he may have had it because he had run a sawmill before the Revolution. The most charming thing about this form was the "majesty" involved. To put the date on the form, one was to specify which year in the reign of "our Sovereign Lord George the Third, King of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, and so forth. We wonder if France was aware of this.</div> <bR> <div>      We hit the jackpot again by discovering an account book for the Robbins' sawmill. It is titled Book 2 and begins in 1796.  Reading what wood was planed and how it was treated, one can learn who is building in Acton. The book is a veritable census of Actonians (some Concordians as well.) One also learns who was and who wasn't quick about paying bills. Some of Acton's better-known figures took up to five years to clear their slates. The mill would remain in the Robbins family for generations, going from Joseph to John in 1800, from John to his son Elbridge in 1836. In 1881 Elbridge Robbins sold it to Daniel J. Wetherbee. It was taken down in the early 1900s. Arthur Davis sketched it before it was razed, and the Society has his sketches. </div> <bR> <div>      The 1800 inventory of the Captain's estate is fascinating. Velvet jackets et al. His pew in the meetinghouse was valued at 12 pounds! We have also recently been given a copy of his will. He left his beloved wife Ruth one third of his improved lands and personal estate. His son John was given the whole of his home farm, the Cragin land so- called, his meadow near Moses Richardson... all of these in Acton. John also was given Joseph's pasture in Mason) New Hampshire) two thirds of the Captains personal estate, and the whole of his pew in the Meetinghouse in Acton. This last testament goes on to say "having given my son Joseph Robbins deceased, two hundred & eighty pound lawful money in lands and buildings, (this probably means the property at Harris and Great Roads) and having in my hand thirty pounds lawful money in notes against the estate of said Joseph) my will is that said notes be never demanded by my Executor.') The will continued “I give to my grandson Joseph Robbins, son of the said Joseph deceased, the Blanchard place so called and my woodlot containing 40 acres in the northerly part of Acton, plus the Blood lot adjoining provided that he serve my wife until he be twenty-one years of age and provided he shall pay 8 pounds lawful money to each of his brothers and sisters." Capt. Robbins also left his granddaughter Elizabeth Gates three pounds and left William Reed "the boy who now lives with me" six pounds upon his reaching the age of 21. John Robbins was to be sole executor. </div> <bR> <div>      Money was obviously still figured two ways. Capt. Joseph's inventory of 1800 was denominated in pounds, but the sawmill book of 1796 was in dollars and cents. Of course the dollar's decimal system is much easier to add or subtract. We wondered what the official coinage was. There was a paper to answer that question too. It was tax number 13, from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, sent by the treasurer Thomas Davis, Esquire, to the Selectmen or Assessors of the Town of Acton. It was sent out the 14th day of July 1796 and was to be paid before December 1st. Acton was charged a total of $285.06. $228.06 of that amount was Acton's share of the $133,394.85 needed to run the Commonwealth. The extra $57 was for Acton's share in the $20,899.50 provided by the Public Treasury to reimburse Members of the House of Representatives for their attendance at the last two Sessions </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>Capt. Joseph Robbins </B></I></div> <div> <I><B> <A NAME="inventory_of_his_estate"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></I><I><B>Inventory of his estate</B></I></div> <div> Clothing</div> <div> One Coat, Brown Coat, Fustian (wool/linen) Coat,One Great Coat</div> <div> 1 velvet jacket (weskit), two old jackets, one pair Velvet breeches</div> <div> 2 pair breeches, one pair trousers, one great coat. Boots</div> <div> 3 pairs old shoes, 5 pairs Stockings, Gloves, Two hats</div> <div> 8yds Cloth, Shoe and knee buckles</div> <bR> <div> I Bed, One case with drawers, One Dining table</div> <div> 1 Tea table, Candle stand, 4 chair frames, Looking glass </div> <div> 4 pewter platters, 6 plates 1 iron pot, 5 table glasses</div> <div> 1 bed with furniture, Second bed with furniture, Third Bed</div> <div> Forth Bed, 6 sheets, one blanket, 4 pillowcases</div> <div> 2 tablecloths, five towels, one case of drawers</div> <div> 1 Oval table, 1 kitchen table, 3 Chests, Great chair</div> <div> 9 chairs, 5 pewter dishes,12 plates 7 porringers (Bowls)</div> <div> 6 basins, old pewter, one brass kettle, one brass skillet and ?</div> <div> Iron pot and Ironware, Earthenware.</div> <div> Furniture of the bowfat (built in corner cabinet with shelves) </div> <div> Case and 6 bottles, knives and forks</div> <div> Warming pan, two pairs of shovels and tongs, Grain hand irons</div> <div> Bellows, Books, two meat, Churn, trough and trays</div> <div> Wooden Bottles, sugar box, one foot wheel, wool wheel,</div> <div> One pair cards, 2 flat irons, ?, Loom and tackling</div> <div> One sidesaddle, man saddles bridle & saddle bags</div> <div> Pillon, two wooden measures, two shelves, 3 hoes</div> <div> Dung fork and 5 axes, Carpenter tools, Chains</div> <div> Horse tackle, Beetle(mallet) and wedges, Cow Bell, Grind stone</div> <div> 1 plow, second plow, wagon, one cart, old wagon wheel</div> <div> 700 feet pine boards, 90 box of Corn, 40 baskets of rye</div> <div> 1 Horse, pair of Oxen, Cow, second cow, </div> <div> Third cow, one heifer, one pair of Steers</div> <div> 1 yearling, 2 calves, one swine, second swine, </div> <div> 4 goats, 21/2 tons of english hay, 4 ton meadow</div> <div> pitch fork and rake, ?, cloth baskets, two box beans</div> <div> Iron cleaves, County order, Gun and Equipment</div> <div> Sheep Shears, Lantern, steelyards ( weight scale), eleven barrels Cider</div> <div> 14 Cider barrel, old casks</div> <div> The Land and Buildings </div> <div> Pew in Meeting House</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>Joseph Robbins </B></I><I><B> <A NAME="timeline_1728__1800"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></I></div> <div> <I><B>A Timeline of his Life 1728/9 -1800</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>February 08, 1728/29</B> Joseph was born in Concord, Middlesex, MA the son of Nathan and Dorothy Barker Robbins  </div> <bR> <div> <B>April 18, 1751</B> married RUTH BACON in Bedford, Middlesex, MA, daughter of JOSEPH BACON and REBECCA TAYLOR.  She was born November 21, 1725 in Concord, Middlesex, MA, and died June 04, 1816 in Acton, Middlesex, MA.</div> <bR> <div> <B>November 09, 1752</B>: JOSEPH ROBBINS, b., Acton, Middlesex, MA.; d. July 05, 1791, Acton, Middlesex, MA.; m. (1) ELIZABETH MOORE, January 16, 1775, Sudbury, Middlesex, MA.; b. June 30, 1756; d. February 09, 1776, Acton, Middlesex, MA.; m. (2) REBECCA DANSMORE, December 10, 1777, Acton, Middlesex, MA.; b. 1756; d. Aft. 1798.</div> <bR> <div> <B>December 05, 1754: </B>AMOS ROBBINS, b., Acton, Middlesex, MA.; d. December 23, 1754, Acton, Middlesex, MA.</div> <bR> <div> <B>September 16, 1756</B>: RUTH ROBBINS, b., Acton, Middlesex, MA.; d. October 17, 1756, Acton, Middlesex, MA..</div> <bR> <div> <B>1759</B>: At the end of 1759 -Capt. J. Robbins led a company of men during the French and Indian War (1753-1763)</div> <div> <I>Phalen: History of the Town of Acton, Middlesex Publishing, Inc. 1954 pg. 55</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>November 02, 1760</B>: LUCY ROBBINS, b., Acton, Middlesex, MA.; d. January 05, 1784, Acton, Middlesex, MA.</div> <bR> <div> <B>1761</B>: Minister rates 0:11:03b (0 pounds, 11 shillings, 3 pence)</div> <bR> <div> <B>April 19, 1762: </B>JOHN ROBBINS, b., Acton, Middlesex, MA.; d. July 24, 1836, Acton, Middlesex, MA.; m. SARAH JONES, December 15, 1791, Acton, Middlesex, MA.; b. September 08, 1768, Acton, Middlesex, MA.; d. November 10, 1839, Acton, Middlesex, MA..</div> <bR> <div> <B>March 1763</B>: Joseph Robbins, Josiah Piper, John Craig and Joseph Brooks were chosen as a committee to build a pound. (The pound was an enclosure 40 or 50 feet square surrounded by a high and substantial wall with a gate at one corner.)</div> <div> <I>Phalen: History of the Town of Acton, Middlesex Publishing, Inc. 1954 </I>pg. 54</div> <bR> <div> <B>August 13, 1763</B>: MOLLEY ROBBINS, b., Acton, Middlesex, MA.; d. November 10, 1763, Acton, Middlesex, MA..</div> <bR> <div> <B>May 11, 1765: </B>REBECCA ROBBINS, b., Acton, Middlesex, MA.; d. August 17, 1787, Acton, Middlesex, MA..</div> <bR> <div> <B>July 17, 1767: </B>NATHAN ROBBINS, b., Acton, Middlesex, MA.; d. July 17, 1767, Acton, Middlesex, MA..</div> <bR> <div> <B>1769</B>:  The *hind parts of the meetinghouse seating was removed and four new pews were erected in their place. Thomas Noyes, Daniel Brooks, <B>Joseph Robbins</B> and Jonathan Hosmer occupied them. (Hind parts of meetinghouse was area of the gallery given to the exclusive settings of the Negroes)</div> <div> <I>Fletcher: Acton in History  J,W. Lewis Co. 1890 pg. 243</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>December 11, 1769</B>: Joseph gave a second small tract of land to the town of Acton for Woodlawn Cemetery adjoining southeast corner to the track given to the town by his father Nathan in 1737.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I>Fletcher: Acton in History  J,W. Lewis Co. 1890 pg. 246</I></div> <div> <B>March 5, 1770</B>: A considerable debate was occasioned in town meeting over a motion to enlarge the meetinghouse. It failed by a vote of 50 to 41, but a committee consisting of Joseph Robbins, Capt. Hayward and Josiah Mansfield was chosen to make certain repairs. </div> <div>  <I>Phalen: History of the Town of Acton, Middlesex Publishing, Inc. 1954 </I>pg. 56</div> <bR> <div> <I>At the same meeting the men of Acton were voting and passing to no longer purchase British Goods, five men were killed in what would become to be known as the Boston Massacre. </I></div> <bR> <div> <B>September 29, 1774</B>: “To those Names are Underwritten thinking our selves Ignorant in the Military Art and Willing to be Instrument met last Tuesday and made choice of Mr. Joseph Robbins as our Capt., Mr. Israel Heald, Lieut. Mr. Robert Chaffin, Ensign and then adjourned to this day and have according met together to choice the other officers and to form ourselves into a Militia Company and we agree to meet at such times as shall be set by the Company. And observe good order in our Proceedings as witness our hands” Acton September 29,1774.</div> <bR> <div> <B>December 1774</B>: <I>L25</I> was voted for the use of the Province and a vote was passed to indemnify the assessors for the making for the making returns to the British government. It was also voted to join the association of the Continental Congress, and a committee was appointed to see that all inhabitants above sixteen years of age signed their compliance, and that the names of those who did not sign should be reported to the Committee of Correspondence. </div> <bR> <div> Samuel Hayward, Francis Faulkner, Jonathan Billings, Josiah Hayward, John Heald, Jr., <B>Joseph Robbins, </B>and Simon Tuttle were chosen for the committee for that purpose.</div> <div> <I>Fletcher: Acton in History J.,W. Lewis Publishing Co. 1890 pg. 252</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>January 4, 1775</B>: A Committee consisting of Lt. Billings, Capt. Samuel Hayward, Lt. John Heald, Josiah Piper, Deacon Brooks, Joseph Robbins and Francis Faulkner was selected to see that the resolves of the Continental Congress, in particular the Association of the said Congress, were strictly observed in the town.</div> <div> <I>Phalen: History of the Town of Acton, Middlesex Publishing, Inc. 1954 </I>pg. 67</div> <bR> <div> <B>April 1775</B>: The provincial committee met on April 1, 5, 14, and 17th and on the latter date ordered Col. Barrett to raise an <I>artillery company </I>and to send four cannons to Groton and <I>two to Acton</I>.</div> <bR> <div> At the time there were in Middlesex County two regiments of the military, one of the regular militia and one of minutemen. The militia had for officers the following personnel:</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Colonel James Barrett, Concord</div> <div> Lt. Colonel Ezekiel Howe, Sudbury</div> <div> Captains, Nathan Barrett, George Minot, Concord</div> <div> <B>Joseph Robbins, Acton</B></div> <div> John Moore, Bedford</div> <div> Samuel Farrar, Lincoln</div> <div> Moses Stone, Aaron Haynes, Sudbury</div> <div> <I>Phalen: History of the Town of Acton, Middlesex Publishing, Inc. 1954 </I>pg. 68</div> <bR> <div> <B>April 19, 1775</B>: The Alarm rider rode up to the house of Capt. Joseph Robbins, located a few rods east of the burying ground, struck sharply on the corner board with a bludgeon and at the same time shouted . <I>"Capt Robbins! Capt. Robbins! The regulars are coming."</I></div> <div>            </div> <div>               After being aroused from their beds on the morning of April 19, 1775, <B>Capt. Joseph Robbins</B> sent his son John (age exactly 13 years old since his birthday was April 19, 1762) to alert Isaac Davis, Captain of the Acton minute men and Simon Hunt, Capt. of the Acton's West Militia Company.  </div> <bR> <div> <B>Capt. Joseph Robbins</B> commanded the East Acton Militia Company at Concord Bridge. There were an unknown number of men in his company.</div> <bR> <div> Known men of the East Acton Militia Co:</div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="286" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="147"><div> Jonathan Billings</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="132"><div> Asa Parlin</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> Jonathan Billings, Jr.</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="132"><div> Nathaniel Parlin</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="147"><div> Joseph Brooks</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="132"><div> Samuel Parlin</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="147"><div> Robert Chaffin</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="132"><div> Solomon Piper</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="147"><div> Micah Davis</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Joseph Robbins, Jr.</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="147"><div> Israel Heald</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="132"><div> Simon Tuttle</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="147"><div> Thomas Noyes</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Edward Wetherbee</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <B>June 1776: </B>After considering the articles the town voted to add the amount of six pounds, six shillings and eight pence to the sum already allotted by the General Court and to raise by same amount the remuneration to Lt. John Heald, Jr. provided he joined the regiment and went with Acton men. It was further voted that a committee be chosen to “make allowances for those men that have been personally in the army or have hired men to go so to excuse them from paying their proportion of the above bounty insofar as what they have done will be sufficient sum therefore.” It was further voted that the aforementioned committee consists of the selectmen together with Dea. Samuel Hayward and Capt. Joseph Robbins.</div> <div> <I>Phalen: History of the Town of Acton, Middlesex Publishing, Inc. 1954 </I>pg. 89</div> <bR> <div> <B>October 24, 1776:  </B>A Proposition was brought before the town to the effect that the executive and legislative branches of the Provincial Government should frame a state constitution. Francis Faulkner, Simon Tuttle, Ephraim Hapgood, Dea. Samuel Hayward, Ephraim Hosmer, <B>Capt. Joseph Robbins</B>, and Nathaniel Edwards were chosen as a committee to shape the draft of resolutions which were unanimously accepted.</div> <div> <I>Phalen: History of the Town of Acton, Middlesex Publishing, Inc. 1954 </I>pg. 89</div> <bR> <div> <B>March 10, 1777</B>: At the annual meeting took under consideration the following articles, “To see what bounty the town will given those men shall enlist themselves in the Continental Army complete the quota of men for this town for three years or during the present war, also to see if the town agree to make an average in the town of what of what has been done in personal service or by hiring men for the public service during the present war and pass any votes that may be thought proper when met relating to the above affair” On this question it was decided to grant a bounty of twenty pounds to every man that had enlisted since the first Monday of the month or should enlist within a week of the date of the meeting. It was further voted that Francis Faulkner, Dea. Samuel Hayward, Lt. John Heald, Ephraim Hosmer, <B>Capt. Joseph Robbins</B>, Dea. Joseph Braybrook, Lt. Ephraim Hapgood, Lt. Thomas Noyes, Nathaniel Edwards, Capt. Simon Hunt, Simon Tuttle, Capt. Israel Heald, Joseph Barker and Lt. Benjamin Brabrook constitute a committee to collect the data concerning the war service of the town.</div> <div> <I>Phalen: History of the Town of Acton, Middlesex Publishing, Inc. 1954 </I>pg.91-92</div> <bR> <div> <B>September 1779</B>: Capt. Joseph Robbins to the convention in Concord, to regulate the prices of articles of produce. Etc. </div> <div> Fletcher: Acton in History; J.W. Lewis Publishing Co. 1890 pg.296</div> <bR> <div> <B>January 25, 1779</B>: It was voted to make the two hundred pounds that was given to Mr. Adams (Rev. Moses Adams) in settlement of good in land and buildings as that money would have purchased at the time it was granted. A committee composed of Francis Faulkner, <B>Capt. Joseph Robbins</B>, Dea. Samuel Hayward, Seth Brooks, Lt. Thomas Noyes, Lt. Ephraim Hapgood, and Lt. Daniel Davis was chosen to assist the minister in purchasing land and buildings to the value of the settlement.</div> <bR> <div> <B>1797</B>: Purchase mill on the west end of the dam</div> <bR> <div> <B>March 31, 1800</B> died in Acton, Middlesex, MA buried in Woodlawn Cemetery</div> <bR> <div> Epitaph: "SACRED To the memory of Cap Joseph Robbins who died</div> <div> with a cancer March 31, 1800 Aged 71 years." It is followed by a poem:</div> <div> "Let worms devour my wasting flesh, And crumble all my bones to dust,</div> <div> My God shall raise my frame anew, At the revival of the just."</div> <bR> <div> Notes: </div> <div>  <A NAME="robbins_house"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><B>Robbins House</B></div> <bR> <div> Capt. Robbins' house reputedly the first painted house in Acton had not only that distinction but was also the first one erected in town since it was the one built by Thomas Wheeler. It had been moved from its original location at the end of the lane on the opposite side of the highway. The barn was struck by lightening in 1830 and totally consumed. The house stood thereafter unoccupied until it likewise burned. The field stone marker, setting a few feet in front of the old well and cellar whole, was dedicated April 18th, 1895, it came from the farm of Luther Conant.</div> <div> Mr. Fred Robbins holds the deed to the cellar hole and the small plot on which the alarm stone stands. Eventually the historic tract will revert to the town.</div> <div> <I>Phalen: History of the Town of Acton, Middlesex Publishing, Inc. 1954 </I>pg. 71</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="77c9f170.png" border=0 width="415" height="279" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>The Robbins House - </B>Returning from the Fletcher homestead to the main road and proceeding direct by the cemetery and beyond till we reach nearly the brow of the hill on the left we come to the site of what was for many years called the Robbins House. The land on which it was located was purchased of Captain Thomas Wheeler, whose house (the first in Acton) was located a few yards to the south near a little brook. When the latter house was taken down timbers were found to be in good condition and were used in the construction of the L part of Nathan Robbins' house.</div> <bR> <div> It was an historic structure from the start and was emphatically so after the 19th of April 1775. “Before light on the eventful morning hours before the British entered Concord, a horseman, whose name was never known, going full speed (they soared neither horseflesh nor manflesh in those days) rode up to this house, then occupied by Captain Joseph Robbins, the commissioned officer in the town of Acton, who lived nearest North Bridge, and struck with a large heavy club, as they though, the corner of the house, never dismounting, but crying out at the top of his voice, “Capt. Robbins! Capt. Robbins! Up, up! The Regulars have come to Concord. Rendezvous at the old North Bridge! Quick as possible alarm Acton! “</div> <bR> <div> His son - afterwards a venerable magistrate- John Robbins, Esq., was then asleep in the garret, a lad of then 13 years old. (April 19th his birthday)</div> <bR> <div> But “those rapping's” - and there was no alarm about them- and the cry brought him to his feet <I>instanter</I> and every other living man in the house. It waked the babe in the cradle. In a few minutes he was on his “father's old mare” Bound for Captain Davis's, not a mile off, who commanded the minutemen, and then to Deacon Simon Hunt's in the west part of town, who commanded the West Company as first lieutenant, Captain Francis Faulkner having a few days before been promoted to be a Major, and the vacancy not having been filled.</div> <div>           <I>“The hurrying footsteps of that steed</I></div> <div> <I>          The fate of a nation was riding that night”</I></div> <bR> <div> The locality where this house stood is easily recognized from indications on the ground. It was a two-story building. The barn was struck by lightening in the year 1830 and was rapidly consumed. The citizens rallied to save the building or atleast part of it, but Esq. Robbins (John) shouted out with his stentorian voice: “ “Boys save your fingers. There is plenty of timber in the woods where this came from!” He knew how to shout, for he was often moderator of Acton town meetings, which gave him a good chance to drill in that line of practice. The house stood afterwards for years unoccupied, but at last it yielded to the destiny of flames, supposed to have been accidental fire from carelessness of transient occupants. The old door stone still remains in position battered somewhat by relic-hunters, who have chipped from it for the sake of a memento. A tablet memorial wills some day be erected on this ground befitting its historic interest.</div> <bR> <div> The report of this house having been haunted in former years is easily credited by the superstitions but denied by more phlegmatic crowd. That those April rapping's should have reverberations long continued credible and any one going by of an imagination and appreciative turn of mind can hear them still ringing in his ears.</div> <div> Fletcher: Acton in History J.W. Lewis Publishing Co. 1890 pg. 255</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B> <A NAME="descendants_of__capt__joseph_robbins"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></I><I><B>Descendants of  Capt. Joseph Robbins</B></I></div> <bR> <div> Generation No. 1</div> <bR> <div> 1.  C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >APT.</FONT> J<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OSEPH</FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >4</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OBBINS</FONT>  (N<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ATHAN</FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >3</FONT>, G<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >EORGE</FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >2</FONT>, G<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >EORGE</FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >1</FONT>) was born February 08, 1728/29 in Concord, Middlesex, MA., and died March 31, 1800 in Acton, Middlesex, MA..  He married R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTH</FONT> B<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ACON</FONT> April 18, 1751 in Bedford, Middlsex, MA., daughter of J<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OSEPH</FONT> B<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ACON</FONT> and R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >EBECCA</FONT> T<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >AYLOR</FONT>.  She was born November 21, 1725 in Concord, Middlesex, MA., and died June 04, 1816 in Acton, Middlesex, MA..</div> <bR> <div> Notes for C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >APT.</FONT> J<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OSEPH</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OBBINS</FONT>:</div> <div> Encyclopedia of American Biography  </div> <bR> <div> ROBBINS JOSEPH patriot revolutionary soldier, was born Feb. 22, 1729, in Acton, Mass. He commanded a company of yeomanry in the first fight with the British at the old North Bridge at Concord, April 19, 1775, in response to the call of Paul Revere. On patriot's day, 1895, the citizens of Acton, Concord and Lexington set up a large memorial stone on the place where once stood the home of Capt. Joseph Robbins. He died March 31, 1800.</div> <div>   </div> <div> Land records referred to Joseph as a trader and gentleman.3 On 19 April 1775, Capt. Joseph Robbins commanded a company of Acton militia at Concord Bridge. Joseph and Ruth were the parents of eight children,recorded at Acton. In his 1797 will, Joseph named his wife Ruth, son John (their only child still living in 1797), and several grandchildren.John was to have the home farm, other real estate in Acton, his father's pew in the Acton meeting house, and Capt. Joseph's "pasture in the town of Mason, N.H."</div> <bR> <div> Captain Joseph Robbins is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Acton, MA. His gravestone states</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> "SACRED To the memory of Cap Joseph Robbins who died</div> <div> with a cancer March 31, 1800 Aged 71 years." It is followed by a poem:</div> <div> "Let worms devour my wasting flesh, And crumble all my bones to dust,</div> <div> My God shall raise my frame anew, At the revival of the just."</div> <bR> <div> After the alarm carried by the three reached Lexington, then Concord, messengers fanned through the countryside warning the scattered farmers that the British were on the march. An unknown rider, perhaps Prescott himself, arrived at the home of Captain Joseph Robbins, leader of one of Acton's two troops of militia--soldiers supposedly under allegiance to the king, although that had ceased to be the case. </div> <div> The messenger did not dismount, but banged on the corner of the house, shouting "Captain Robbins! Captain Robbins! Up! Up! The regulars have come to Concord! Rendezvous at old North Bridge quick as possible! Alarm Acton!"  Aroused from his bed, Robbins fired three shots with his musket to warn the town. Then he sent his 13-year-old son John to alert Isaac Davis and others. When he received the news, Davis sent word that he would leave for Concord as soon as thirty men had mustered in his yard."</div> <bR> <div> More About C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >APT.</FONT> J<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OSEPH</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OBBINS</FONT>:</div> <div> Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery, Acton, MA.</div> <div> Minuteman: September 29, 1774, Acton, Middlesex, MA.</div> <bR> <div> More About R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTH</FONT> B<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ACON</FONT>:</div> <div> Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery, Acton, MA.</div> <bR> <div> More About J<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OSEPH</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OBBINS</FONT> and R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTH</FONT> B<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ACON</FONT>:</div> <div> Marriage: April 18, 1751, Bedford, Middlsex, MA.</div> <div>      </div> <div> Children of J<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OSEPH</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OBBINS</FONT> and R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTH</FONT> B<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ACON</FONT> are:</div> <div>      i.     C<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >APT.</FONT> J<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OSEPH</FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >5</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OBBINS</FONT>, b. November 09, 1752, Acton, Middlesex, MA.; d. July 05, 1791, Acton, Middlesex, MA.; m. (1) E<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >LIZABETH</FONT> M<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OORE</FONT>, January 16, 1775, Sudbury, Middlesex, MA.; b. June 30, 1756; d. February 09, 1776, Acton, Middlesex, MA.; m. (2) R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >EBECCA</FONT> D<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ANSMORE</FONT>, December 10, 1777, Acton, Middlesex, MA.; b. 1756; d. Aft. 1798.</div> <bR> <div> More About </div> <div> Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery, Acton, MA.</div> <div> Minuteman: September 27, 1774, Acton, Middlesex, MA.</div> <bR> <div> More About E<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >LIZABETH</FONT> M<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OORE</FONT>:</div> <div> Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery, Acton, MA.</div> <bR> <div> More About J<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OSEPH</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OBBINS</FONT> and E<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >LIZABETH</FONT> M<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OORE</FONT>:</div> <div> Marriage: January 16, 1775, Sudbury, Middlesex, MA.</div> <bR> <div> More About J<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OSEPH</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OBBINS</FONT> and R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >EBECCA</FONT> D<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ANSMORE</FONT>:</div> <div> Marriage: December 10, 1777, Acton, Middlesex, MA.</div> <bR> <div>      ii.     A<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >MOS</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OBBINS</FONT>, b. December 05, 1754, Acton, Middlesex, MA.; d. December 23, 1754, Acton, Middlesex, MA..</div> <bR> <div> More About A<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >MOS</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OBBINS</FONT>:</div> <div> Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery, Acton, MA.</div> <bR> <div>      iii.     R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTH</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OBBINS</FONT>, b. September 16, 1756, Acton, Middlesex, MA.; d. October 17, 1756, Acton, Middlesex, MA..</div> <bR> <div> More About R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UTH</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OBBINS</FONT>:</div> <div> Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery, Acton, MA.</div> <bR> <div>      iv.     L<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UCY</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OBBINS</FONT>, b. November 02, 1760, Acton, Middlesex, MA.; d. January 05, 1784, Acton, Middlesex, MA..</div> <bR> <div> More About L<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >UCY</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OBBINS</FONT>:</div> <div> Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery, Acton, MA.</div> <bR> <div>      v.     J<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OHN</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OBBINS</FONT>, b. April 19, 1762, Acton, Middlesex, MA.; d. July 24, 1836, Acton, Middlesex, MA.; m. S<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ARAH</FONT> J<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ONES</FONT>, December 15, 1791, Acton, Middlesex, MA.; b. September 08, 1768, Acton, Middlesex, MA.; d. November 10, 1839, Acton, Middlesex, MA..</div> <bR> <div> Notes for J<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OHN</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OBBINS</FONT>:</div> <div> Lottery House</div> <bR> <div> More About J<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OHN</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OBBINS</FONT>:</div> <div> Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery, Acton, MA.</div> <bR> <div> Notes for S<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ARAH</FONT> J<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ONES</FONT>:</div> <div> Sally Jones</div> <bR> <div> More About S<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ARAH</FONT> J<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ONES</FONT>:</div> <div> Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery, Acton, MA.</div> <bR> <div> More About J<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OHN</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OBBINS</FONT> and S<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ARAH</FONT> J<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ONES</FONT>:</div> <div> Marriage: December 15, 1791, Acton, Middlesex, MA.</div> <bR> <div>      vi.     M<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OLLEY</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OBBINS</FONT>, b. August 13, 1763, Acton, Middlesex, MA.; d. November 10, 1763, Acton, Middlesex, MA..</div> <bR> <div> More About M<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OLLEY</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OBBINS</FONT>:</div> <div> Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery, Acton, MA.</div> <bR> <div>      vii.     R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >EBECCA</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OBBINS</FONT>, b. May 11, 1765, Acton, Middlesex, MA.; d. August 17, 1787, Acton, Middlesex, MA..</div> <bR> <div> More About R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >EBECCA</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OBBINS</FONT>:</div> <div> Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery, Acton, MA.</div> <bR> <div>      viii.     N<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ATHAN</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OBBINS</FONT>, b. July 17, 1767, Acton, Middlesex, MA.; d. July 17, 1767, Acton, Middlesex, MA..</div> <bR> <div> More About N<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >ATHAN</FONT> R<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >OBBINS</FONT>:</div> <div> Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery, Acton, MA.</div> </td> </tr></table></body>