Posted by: "marcelofamilytx" tmarcelo@austin.rr.com marcelofamilytx
    Date: Tue Apr 17, 2012 3:24 pm ((PDT))

Here are some notes that I made from a book titled:
American Migrations 1765-1799: The lives, times, and families of colonial
Americans who remained loyal to the British Crown before, during and
after the Revolutionary War, as related in their own words and through
their correspondence. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co.,
2000. Author:  Coldham, Peter Wilson.

(Available also on Ancestry.com)

Page 426 (in the section titled New Jersey):

Robins, John. Claim. 1783. for estate valued at L610. (12/109/262)

Robins, William of Amwell. Memorials London 1787, Antigua 1790. A
native of NJ, he was settled comfortably with his father at Amwell:
the rebellion broke out when he was aged 16. Both he and his father
have always been loyal and he has lost his patrimony thereby, including
lands in VA. His father was wounded in battle and, after languishing a
few months, died. The claimant was appoint as a guide to the Army in 1776
and was employed in severall engagements; he was at the siege of Savannah
and in June 1780 paid 100 guineas to be appointed Cornet in Tarleton's
Regt. of Dragoons. He was captured at York Town in 1781 and marched to
Lancaster. At the peace he was sent to NYC from where he was ordered
to NS (Nova Scotia) as Lieut. of the 60th Regt. He began a settlement
there but it was totally destroyed when the settlers tried to clear the
land by burning it. Because he had not seen his mother for some years,
he attempted to return to NJ but was there thereatened with hanging and
was punished by being tied to a tree. When he fled to NYC all his papers
were stolen: he sailed from there to the WI (West Indies) and then to
England where he was pursued by his creditors. Claim for 300 acres in
Amwell; 5000 acres in VA (12/17/164, 102/116, 109/260; 13/111/164-180).

Tracey