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From "Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Mercer County, New Jersey"
by Francis Bazley Lee in 1907:

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  CARROLL ROBBINS, a representative member of the Trenton (New Jersey) bar,
was born at Bloomsbury, New Jersey, December 3, 1858, a son of Sylvester
and Sarah Isabel (Bird) Robbins.  His name is Charles Carroll Robbins, but
he always signs his name and is known among his friend as Carroll Robbins.
By some of the former generations the name was spelled Robins.
  The first of the name of whom there is any definite information was
Jonathan Robbins, who settled in Alexandria township, Hunterdon county,
New Jersey, adjacent to the Old Hickory Tavern, in 1751.  He purchased land
of Mrs. Merrill, a widow, and his original tract consisted of two hundred
and eighty-five acres. He was the father of two sons, Jonathan and Isaac.
  Jonathan Robbins, eldest son of Jonathan Robbins, was reared on his
father's farm, followed the occupation of farming, married and reared a
large family on the old estate, among whom was a son Jonathan.
  Jonathan Robins, the third of that name, resided near Pattenburg, Hunterdon
county, New Jersey.  He married Charity (Lomping) Lawshe, widow of John
Lawshe, who bore him the following children:  George, James, Ephraim, Mary,
Moses, Jonas, Sylvester, Sarah and Elizabeth. Moses was born in Bethlehem,
now Union township, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, September 3, 1826, married
Sarah M. Kels, who bore him twelve children.  Jonas married Sarah J. Case,
and lived on the old homestead at Alexandria.  Sarah married James Sidders,
and lived near Urbana, Ohio.  Elizabeth married (first) Reuben R. Wright,
and (second) Jonas Tharp, and they reside in Union township, adjoining the
old homestead.  Jonathan Robins, the father of these children, purchased
the interests of his brothers and sisters and owned the greater part of the
old homestead tract.  After his marriage he purchased the other homestead
in Union township, where his death occurred, December 12, 1872.  His wife
died March 25, 1859, aged sixty-two years, ten months and twenty-four days.
Their remains were interred on the original tract.
  Sylvester Robins, son of Jonathan and Charity (Lawshe) Robins, was born near
Pattenburg, New Jersey, December 14, 1834.  He was educated at the school
of John Vandeveer, D. D., of Easton, Pennsylvania, and for many years he
served in the capacity of teacher at Bloomsbury, Hunterdon county, New Jersey.
  Carroll Robbins, son of Sylvester and Sarah Isabel (Bird) Robins, obtained
a good common school education, and then entered Princeton College, from
which institution her was graduated in 1881.  He was tutor in mathematics in
his alma mater during the years 1884-85.  He attended Columbia Law School,
was admitted to the bar in 1886, began the practice of his profession in the
city of Trenton, New Jersey, and has since acquired a large and lucrative
clientele.  He has served as a member of the board of health in Trenton
for three years, member of the school board from 1895 to the present time
(1906), and in March, 1905, was appointed chancery reporter.  He is a member
and elder in the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Trenton, and his political
allegiance is given to the Republican party.  He is recognized as one of the
most enterprising and public-spirited citizens of Trenton, and is greatly
respected and esteemed by all who have the honor of his acquaintance.
  He married, October 12, 1887, at Urbana, Ohio, Edna Thompson, who bore him
one child, Elsie, born August 9, 1892, at Trenton, New Jersey.  Mrs. Robbins,
who died April 5, 1903, was a daughter of Thomas K. and Sarah J. Thompson,
the former of whom was a farmer.  Thomas K. Thompson's family went to the
state of Ohio from the vicinity of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and his wife
was a native of Farquier county, Virginia.  Mrs. Robbins graduated from
Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio in 1883.

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