Posted by: "turkeypt2" july37@cox.net turkeypt2
Date: Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:35 am ((PDT))

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I'd like the descendants of Richard & Mary "Polly" Webb Robbins to be aware
that the story regarding Mary Webb Robbins b. Feb.  5, 1789 being of Native
American descent is untrue. There are no facts to support this story. Every
once in awhile, I have an inquiry about Elizabeth Sawquill mother of Mary
Webb & Mary's grandmother (name unknown in the story) asking if they were
Native Americans. The story goes that they were sold at a slave market in
Phila, PA to William Webb who took them both home to Newport, NJ where he
married Elizabeth Sawquill the young Indian maiden. The facts show Mary
Webb's mother was Elizabeth Lore d/o William & Elener Forgison Lore &
step-daughter of Jonathan Socwell, Sr. None of these people were Native
Americans. The William Webb Family Bible records the wife of William Webb
as Elizabeth Sawquill. The name is commonly spelled now as Sockwell but it
has also been recorded as Sawquill, Sauquil & Socwell. After the death of
William Lore in 1772, Elener Forgison Lore, Mary Webb's grandmother married
Jonathan Socwell, Sr. Elizabeth Lore was very young, approximately 4 yrs old
in 1772 & certainly not old enough to marry. About 1788, Elizabeth Lore aka
Elizabeth Sawquill married William Webb. It appears she associated herself
with the surname Sawquill/Sockwell although she was born a Lore. The name
Sawquil, Sockwell, etc. is of English origin & not Native American.

                        Sara
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