This Memorial Obituary provided by Smith-McCracken Funeral Home BEGIN Emily Robbins Born on Aug. 19, 1917 Died on Aug. 20, 2016 and resided in Newton, NJ. Visitation: Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016 09:00 am - 10:00 am Service: Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016 10:00 am Cemetery: Neshaminy Church Cemetery Emily Robbins, 99, of Newton died Saturday, August 20, 2016 at United Methodist Communities at Bristol Glen. Emily was born August 19, 1917 in the Moland House in Hartsville, Penn. The Moland House is an old stone farmhouse built by John Moland in 1750; the house originally served as headquarters for General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War. Miss Robbins lived there with her family for the first 22 years of her life. She was daughter of the late Roger Sherman and Hattie nee (Hart) Robbins. Miss Robbins was a 1934 graduate of Hatboro High School in Hatboro, PA and was a graduate of Temple University College of Liberal Arts, with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She continued her education at Montclair, Rutgers, and Princeton in order to acquire her Master's Degree and Educational Certification to teach and supervise five disciplines at the secondary level. Miss Robbins' love for education and mathematics was very evident throughout her life. She worked, after college graduation, at the New Amsterdam Casualty Company in Philadelphia as a statistician. She later became employed, during WWII, by the Brewster Aeronautical Company of Johnsville, PA as a Supervisor of Records. After WWII, Miss Robins was able to pursue her career in education. She was offered her first job as a Mathematics teacher in Sussex High School, Sussex, NJ. In 1954, Miss Robbins taught Mathematics in Newton High School, Newton, NJ until she retired in 1980. Known for her strict teaching methods, Miss Robbins displayed professionalism, consistency, and perseverance in her classroom. Several of Emily's fondest memories consisted of moving to Sussex, NJ as a young teacher and having to learn how to milk a cow in order to participate in a fundraiser for the Future Farmers of America. She was also very proud that one of her former students, John C. Mather, won the Nobel Peace Prize in Physics in 2006. Emily was very active in the Presbyterian Church. She was the church organist at the Presbyterian Church of Neshaminy of Warwick in Hartsville, PA. Upon her move to New Jersey, she became an Elder of the Presbyterian Church in Sussex. She was predeceased by her brother, Roger Sherman Robbins, Jr. Funeral Services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, August 27, 2016 at the Smith-McCracken Funeral Home, 63 High Street, Newton, followed by a burial at Neshaminy-Warwick Presbyterian Church Cemetery, 1401 Meetinghouse Road, Warminster, PA 18974. Visitation will be held from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Saturday. Memorial contributions may be made to the Bristol Glen Fellowship Fund, United Methodist Communities at Bristol Glen, 200 Bristol Glen Drive, Newton, NJ 07860. Arrangements are under the direction of Smith-McCracken Funeral Home, 63 High Street, Newton. Online condolences may be made at smithmccrackenfuneralhome.com. END Published in The New Jersey Herald on Aug. 25, 2016 Newton, NJ BEGIN NEWTON - Emily Robbins, 99, of Newton, died Saturday, Aug. 20 at United Methodist Communities at Bristol Glen. Emily was born Aug. 19, 1917, in the Moland House in Hartsville, Pa. The Moland House is an old stone farmhouse built by John Moland in 1750; the house originally served as headquarters for General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War. Miss Robbins lived there with her family for the first 22 years of her life. She was daughter of the late Roger Sherman and Hattie (Hart) Robbins. Miss Robbins was a 1934 graduate of Hatboro High School in Hatboro, Pa., and was a graduate of Temple University College of Liberal Arts, with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She continued her education at Montclair, Rutgers and Princeton in order to acquire her master's degree and educational certification to teach and supervise five disciplines at the secondary level. Miss Robbins' love for education and mathematics was very evident throughout her life. She worked after her college graduation at the New Amsterdam Casualty Company in Philadelphia as a statistician. She later became employed, during World War II, by the Brewster Aeronautical Company of Johnsville, Pa., as a supervisor of records. After World War II, Miss Robbins was able to pursue her career in education. She was offered her first job as a mathematics teacher at Sussex High School. In 1954, Miss Robbins taught mathematics in Newton High School until she retired in 1980. Known for her strict teaching methods, Miss Robbins displayed professionalism, consistency, and perseverance in her classroom. Several of Emily's fondest memories consisted of moving to Sussex as a young teacher, and having to learn how to milk a cow in order to participate in a fundraiser for the Future Farmers of America. She was also very proud that one of her former students, John C. Mather, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006. Emily was very active in the Presbyterian Church. She was the church organist at the Neshaminy-Warwick Presbyterian Church, Hartsville, Pa. Upon her move to New Jersey, she became an elder of the Presbyterian Church in Sussex. She was predeceased by her brother, Roger Sherman Robbins Jr. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 27, at the Smith-McCracken Funeral Home, 63 High St., Newton, followed by a burial at Neshaminy-Warwick Presbyterian Church Cemetery, 1401 Meetinghouse Road, Warminster, Pa. Visitation will be held from 9 to 10 a.m. on Saturday at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to the Bristol Glen Fellowship Fund, United Methodist Communities at Bristol Glen, 200 Bristol Glen Drive, Newton, NJ 07860. Arrangements are under the direction of Smith-McCracken Funeral Home. Online condolences may be made at smithmccrackenfuneralhome.com. END from founders.archives.gov ... BEGIN General Orders, 11 August 1777 General Orders Cross Roads [Pa.] Augt 11th 1777. "Muhlenberg's Orderly Book," 34:345-48; D, DLC: Adam Stephen Papers. The copy in Adam Stephen's orderly book is incomplete and contains minor variations of wording. 1. Lt. James McMichael describes the Continental army's march of this date from Upper Dublin, where it had camped on 9 Aug., to Cross Roads in his journal entry for 10 Aug.: "At dawn the General beat, when all tents were struck. We marched N.N.E., passed Wells's tavern, then S.S.E. to the Crooked Billet, then N.W., and reached the Cross Roads [Hartsville], where we encamped at 6 P.M." ("McMichael's Diary," 147). GW reputedly headquartered at a house near the bridge on the southwest branch of Neshaminy Creek, about half a mile north of Cross Roads and about twenty miles above Philadelphia. The house, later described as a "substantial stone dwelling" and one of the "best-finished houses in the neighborhood," is said to have belonged to Catherine Hutchinson Moland (d. 1780), the widow of John Moland (1700-1761), a member of the Pennsylvania provincial council and a prominent Bucks County attorney (Baker, "Camp by Schuylkill Falls," 35-36). GW's military family expense account contains entries for 23 Aug. for £5.5 for cash paid to "Mrs Moland for her furniture &c." and for £1.2.6 for cash paid to a "woman for Cleaning the Kitchen" (DLC:GW, ser. 5, vol. 28). General Orders, 19 August 1777 General Orders Head Quarters, near the Cross roads [Pa.] August 19th 1777. Varick transcript, DLC:GW. Muhlenberg's orderly book includes the following paragraph at the end of the general orders for this date: "Genl Greens division is to relieve the Provost Guard and Q.M.Gs Guard this afternoon. The Guards to parade by the Cross Roads at 5 o'clock" ("Muhlenberg's Orderly Book," 34:359). 1. GW's headquarters from 10 to 23 Aug. was at Catherine Hutchinson Moland's house near a bridge on the southwest branch of Neshaminy Creek about half a mile north of Cross Roads (now Hartsville, Pa.) and about twenty miles north of Philadelphia. Caleb Gibbs on 21 Aug. paid £4.5.1 for "Articles had of the woman at Whose house the Genll Lived at Cross Roads": milk, butter, eggs, potatoes, cucumbers, beets, cabbage, six chickens, and one "large fowl" (household account book, 11 April 1776-21 Nov. 1780, DLC:GW, ser. 5, vol. 28). END