According to "History of Warren County New Jersey" George Wyckoff Cummins, Ph. D., M. D. 1911 BEGIN PARAPHRASING Jonathan ROBBINS a member of Assembly of New Jersey 1827-1828. Jonathan ROBBINS a member of Council of New Jersey 1829-1830. END PARAPHRASING from the "Belvidere Intelligencer and Warren County Republican", Belvidere, NJ dated 1 Jun 1866: BEGIN Correspondent of the intelligence. Bloomsbury, NJ, May 22d, 1866. [several items deleted] Jonathan G. Robbins an aged and esteemed citizen of this place, died at the residence of his daughter on Friday after noon last. He was in his ninty-third year and was one of the oldest men in the neighborhood. The funeral services were conducted in the Greenwich church, on Sunday afternoon, when a large concourse of friends and relatives had gathered to pay their last tribute of respect to one whom to know was to love. More anon from Dient. END transcription of Newspapers->Misc->17.480.jpg The Washington Star Washington, NJ 18 Dec 1902 BEGIN An Old Family Bible It Contains the Genealogy of the Hoff, Carter and Smith Families 150 Years Back. Mrs. James L. Creveling of Bloomsbury has in her possession a Bible which was presented to her great-grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Carter, by her father, Charles Hoff, on Feb. 7, 1777. Some parts of the sacred book are destroyed but is in the main in a good state of preservation. Three pages are devoted to the records of the Hoff and Carter families. The records follow: Children of Spencer and Sarah Carter born in 1764, '65, '68, '70, '73, '76, '78, '81, '84 and '86. Charles Hoff, Jr., married Abigail Coddington Feb. 17, 1763. The children of Charles Hoff, Sr., born 1764, '66, '68 and '70. Charles Hoff, Jr.'s children born 1744, '46, '48, '51, '53, '54, '56 and '59. The New Testament was translated from the original Greek by Thomas Basket, MDCCXLLX. Book of Psalms collected in English metre by Thomas Steinbold, John Hoppinks and others, printed by A. Wilde, 1784. Abigal Hoff died Aug. 19, 1772. Charles Hoff, Sr., died Dec. 22, 1782. Charles Hoff, son of Charles, Jr., died July 13, 1753. Mary Hoff died Aug. 12, 1761. Spencer Carter, aged 73, died Dec. 30, 1812; interred Jan. 1, 1813, in Greenwich Presbyterian cemetery, Warren county--formerly Sussex county. Sarah, wife of Spencer Carter, died March 15, 1822, aged 74 years and 22 days; interred at Greenwich. Charles Carter died June 7, 1834, aged 70 years, 4 months and 30 days. Wm. Carter died March 18, 1841, aged 70 years, 2 months and 18 days. The Carters and Smiths are closely connected. Wm. Smith, father of Peter Smith, born 1754, died Nov. 19, 1815. Rachel Bohn, wife of Wm. Smith, born 1757, died July 1819. They were married Jan. 1, 1777. Peter, son of Wm. Smith, married Sarah Carter, daughter of Spencer and Sarah Carter, and were the parents of the following children: William, born Aug. 25, 1802; Rachel, born Jan. 11, 1806; Sarah Ann, born April 26, 1808; Spencer Carter, born Sept. 27, 1810; Mary, born May 13, 1813; Joseph Carter, born June 15, 1815; John Carter, born Oct. 29, 1818. Peter Smith, died Sept. 9, 1822; Sarah, his wife, died Sept. 20, 1840. Their children died as follows: William, July 5, 1849; Rachel, Feb. 21, 1873; Sarah Ann, May 3, 1878; Spencer Carter, Dec. 4, 1863; Mary, Jan. 8, 1815; Joseph Carter, June 14, 1891; John Carter, Feb. 5, 1873. Spencer Carter Smith was the father of Mrs. James L. and Mrs. A. G. Creveling of Bloomsbury; Jonathan Robbins Smith, Miss Sarah C. Smith and Mrs. Frank P. Cline of Philadelphia. He married Mary Vanover Robbins, Nov. 20, 1832. Mrs. Smith was the daughter of Col. Jonathan Robbins who was a soldier in the war of 1812, and and [sic] had command of the forces at Sandy Hook, where a British fleet attempted to land. A point of land there known as Robbins Reef, was named in honor of the commander. Col. Robbins lived to the great age of 93 years and was buried in Greenwich cemetery. END