18–19.  Timothy Titus Robbins was born in New York, U.S.A., on Wednesday, March 13, 1782, and died in Indiana, U.S.A., probably between 1842 and 1850. Phoebe Conklin was born in New York in 1801-2, and died in Indiana. They were married in New York about 1820. She took the name Phoebe Robbins. He is the son of Isaac and Margaret (Titus) Robbins. They had six children:

i. Jeremiah Robbins was born in New York in 1822-3.
ii. Rosetta Robbins [#18B]: She was born in Oneida County, New York, U.S.A., on June 10, 1832, and died in Dayton, Washington, U.S.A., in May, 1908.
iii. Henrietta P. Robbins [#9]: She was born in New York on June 2, 1834, and died in Salem Township, Allegan County, Michigan, on January 27, 1908.
iv. Eliza M. Robbins [#16Fs]: She was born in New York on June 23, 1836, and died in Woodburn, Marion County, Oregon, U.S.A., on August 19, 1907. She married Joshua Gilbert, the brother of the husband of her sister Henrietta.
v. Caroline Robbins was born in Ohio, U.S.A., in 1840-1. Her nephew, Walter Gilbert, remembered her name as "Cornelia" and that her married name was Hartman. However, the 1850 census of Kosciusko County, Indiana, gives her name as Caroline. They are probably the Caroline C. Robbins and Henry W. Hartman who were married on January 20, 1861, in Warsaw, Kosciusko Co.
vi. William H. Robbins was born in Ohio in 1843, and died in Kosciusko County, Indiana, U.S.A., in 1922. He married Marietta Heater on December 9, 1868, in Kosciusko County. Census records give his birth year as 1842-3; "Kosciusko County Civil War Soldiers' Graves" gives his birth year as 1843; his death date as 1922; and his burial as the IOOF Cemetery in Kosciusko County. "... Men in the Civil War" records that he enlisted on 2 August 1862 as a private in the 4th Regiment Cavalry (77th Regiment Volunteers), Company C.

Per Walter Joshua Gilbert, his maternal grandfather, Timothy Titus Robbins, lived near Rochester, New York, then moved to western Indiana where he lived until his death. He was a school teacher.

Since Timothy came from a long line of Quakers, it is reasonable to believe that he was a Quaker, too. Therefore, he probably would have lived in an area with a Quaker community. He was 52 when his daughter, Henrietta, was born and 68 when she married Truman Gilbert in Portage County, Ohio, in 1850. From the 1850 census, below, the family arrived in Ohio between about 1836 and 1840 and stayed to at least 1843. By 1850 it appears the Timothy has died (since he does not appear in the 1850 census and Phoebe is the head of the family) and the family has move to Kosciusko County, Indiana. Truman and Henrietta's first two children were born in Ohio and the rest in Michigan; from the birth dates, the family must have moved to Michigan about 1858. Perhaps Eliza Robbins and Joshua Gilbert accompanied them because they were married and their first child was born in Michigan in 1860.

Walter Joshua Gilbert stated that both Timothy and Phoebe died in "western Indiana" of the same infectious disease [the author seems to remember that he said it was black diphtheria].

1850 Census: Kosciusko County, Indiana
Harrison Township, p. ___; Archives film #___ — from Ancestry.com by Charles B. Thompson
NameAge Occup.LandBorn
Pheba Robbins [sic]48   N.Y.
    Jeremiah Robbins27 Farmer$700N.Y.
    Eliza M. Robbins14   N.Y.
    Caroline C. Robbins9   Ohio
    Wm. H. Robbins7   Ohio

Timothy and Phoebe were both born in New York. They were married in New York and had their first children there. Rosetta was born in Oneida County, New York. Then they moved to Ohio between about 1835 and 1840. Close to 1850 they moved to Kosciusko County, Indiana. Timothy probably died there before 1850 so his eldest son, Jeremiah, was running the family farm.

It has been hard to locate information about Timothy Robbins beyond what my grandfather wrote. I will make this page a working search record until more definite information is found.

Timothy Robbins
New York
State Censuses		 Males (ages) Females (ages)
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5		 5
10		 10
15		 15
20		 20
30		 30
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50		 50
60		 60
70		 70
80		  0 
5		 5
10		 10
15		 15
20		 20
30		 30
40		 40
50		 50
60		 60
70		 70
80
1: 1830 p. 122
Broome; Lisle		 ----1----- 1---1-----
2: 1830 p. 166
Greene; New Balt.		 --------1- --------1-

Comments on the four entries:

  1. This family is about the right age but the first child is ten years too old. Also, Broome County is at the Pennsylvania border, not near Rochester.
  2. This clearly is not our Timothy but a older couple living alone.
  3. This is probably the same couple as #2 but now living two others in a different location.
  4. This is an "ideal" fit because it has a girl in the 0 to 5 age range, consistent with Henrietta's birthdate, and a boy in the same range: the next child was a boy. However, this Timothy had a clearly given middle initial of "M" which is inconsistent with my grandfather's recollection that his middle name was "Titus"; also, Essex County is in the far north part of the state next to Vermont.

These are people named Robins who made land patents in Indiana. Aaron, Andrew M., Appleton, Benjamin, Christopher, George, Geradus R., Greenbury S., Isaac, Jacob, James, John, Jonathan, Joseph, Joshua, Lewis, Marmaduke, Micayah, Michael, Nathan, Nathaniel, Philip, Ransom, Rezin, Richard, Samuel C., Thomas, William.

The 1790 Census of Saratoga County, New York includes:

SurnameGivenM>15M<16Fem. Oth.SlaveTown
RobbinsGideon112 00Saratoga
RobbinsJehiel212 00Ballstown
RobinsJoseph113 00Halfmoon
RobinsTimothy1 0200Stillwater
RobinsWillm.245 00Stillwater
 
ConklinAbigail222 00Halfmoon
ConklinAbraham101 00Halfmoon
ConklinElizabeth145 00Halfmoon
ConklinIsaac121 00Stillwater
ConklinJames124 00Halfmoon
ConklinJohn134 00Halfmoon
ConklinSamuel101 00Saratoga
ConklinSeth123 00Saratoga
ConklinThomas101 00Halfmoon
ConklinThomas Jr.114 00Halfmoon
Saratoga County, New York, was formed from Albany County in 1791. At the time of the first census of the United States in 1790, the towns in Albany County that now comprise Saratoga County were: Ballstown, Halfmoon, Saratoga, and Stillwater.

The Search for Phoebe Conklin

Per Faith _____ (March 2002): The Phebe who m. James Bowne was the dau of Nathan & Amy (Mulford) Conklin. Nathan had a brother Jeremiah who m. Elizabeth Miller, and they had a dau. Phebe who was b. 7/17/1800. I know nothing more about her, but perhaps she is the Phebe you want. She would have been a first cousin of the Phebe who m. James Bowne.

In July, 2000, Shirley M. Staerkel (e-mail address invalid as of Oct. 2002) sent the following for which she cannot find the source or location (probably New York State).
From the Bible of William Conklin, Jr. [as reprinted in the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, 1925 (per Faith)]


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