From: Marshall Lake [mlake@mlake.net] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 9:01 PM To: South Jersey ROBINS/ROBBINS Mailing List Subject: [SPAM] [Robbinsfamilysouthjersey] ROBINS - Middlesex Co, NJ In the latest "The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey" (May 2007, Vol 82, No 2, Whole No 281) starting on page 59 there is an article entitled "Accounts of the Estate of Christopher Hoogeland of Windsor, 1763" by Thomas B Wilson. Windsor is/was in Middlesex County. The estate contains a document being the adminstrators' inventory of ledger accounts. There are several ROBINS/etc listed in this document. The document is captioned: quote September 20, 1763: Account of D'r [debtors] & C'r [creditors] as it now stands in the Ledger of Christopher Hoogeland, Late of Windsor in the County of Middlesex, Dec'd, September 20th 1763 unquote The ROBINS/etc listed in the document are (all money amounts are in pounds): amount paid balance outstanding Jacob Robens 16.4.1 9.19.10 6.4.3 3 yrs. Daniel Robben, Sand P'k [Sand Pink] 1.14.6 3 yrs Joseph Robens Jun'r, credit 1.12.2 9 mo. Moses Robbens 7.18.3 7.11.9 0.3.6 1 yr. 6 mo. Zebulon Robbins, credit 0.13.9 3 mo. Nathan Robins, credit 32.18.5 2 yrs. 8 mo. William Robins 21.4.10 6.5.0 14.19.10 2 yrs. 4 mo. -- Marshall Lake -- mlake@mlake.net -- http://mlake.net From: july37 [july37@cox.net] Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 12:17 PM To: Robbinsfamilysouthjersey@yahoogroups.com Subject: [SPAM] Re: [Robbinsfamilysouthjersey] ROBINS - Middlesex Co, NJ Marshall, Thanks for posting the Robins from this article. I was curious as to what "Sand Pink" indicated after the name of Daniel Robben. Another NJ family researcher told me it was a version or slang for Assunpink, a Lenape word meaning stony waters. I'm assuming this Daniel Robben mentioned lived near Assunpink Creek around the area of Clarksburg & Ye Olde Robbins Burial Ground. Sara From: Chris Schopfer [cjschopfer@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 7:30 PM To: Robbinsfamilysouthjersey@yahoogroups.com Subject: [SPAM] Re: [Robbinsfamilysouthjersey] Re: ROBINS - Middlesex Co, NJ Marshall, et al.: The area of Mercer County that contains Assunpink Creek (and I assume the park, which might be another term for the wildlife area) was formerly part of Middlesex County. Clarksburg and the Robbins Burial Ground are part of a salient of Monmouth County that is closer to parts of Mercer, Burlington and Ocean Counties than it is to most of Monmouth County. Assunpink Lake and the wildlife area sit just north of Rt 524, just west of Clarksburg (Monmouth) and just south of Roosevelt (Mercer). This was deep in the heart of "Robbins country", or at least my part of the Moses line's territory. Chris > Thanks for posting the Robins from this article. I was curious as to > what "Sand Pink" indicated after the name of Daniel Robben. Another NJ > family researcher told me it was a version or slang for Assunpink, a > Lenape word meaning stony waters. I'm assuming this Daniel Robben > mentioned lived near Assunpink Creek around the area of Clarksburg & Ye > Olde Robbins Burial Ground. I'm afraid there's no further info gleaned from "The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey" concerning "Sand Pink". I checked "The National Gazetteer of the United States of America - New Jersey 1983" by the United States Geological Survey (which is supposed to contain all variants). It contains no entry for "Sand Pink". The only "Sand [anything]" in Middlesex Co in the book is "Sand Hills" (2 different places ... one a locale and one a populated place) and "Sandy Point" (AKA, "Sandy Pointe" and "Sandy Hook") classified as a cape. I also looked for Assunpink. There are three places, none of which are in Middlesex Co. "Assunpink Creek" (a stream) is in Mercer Co. "Assunpink Creek Fish and Wildlife Management Area" (a park) is in Monmouth Co. And "Assunpink Park" (a park) is in Mercer Co. -- Marshall Lake -- mlake@mlake.net -- http://mlake.net From: carolsgn [carolsgn@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 12:49 PM To: Robbinsfamilysouthjersey@yahoogroups.com Subject: [SPAM] [Robbinsfamilysouthjersey] Assunpink/ Sun Pink/St. Pink/(Sandy Pink ) From the Trenton Historical Society: http://www.trentonhistory.org/Documents/MillHill/History.htm In the late 17th century, the area of study lay at the northern limit of the English settled areas in the province of West New Jersey. The lower section of the Assunpink Creek drainage effectively formed the northern and upstream limit of the Yorkshire (or Upper or First) Tenth, a subdivision of West Jersey that extended from the Falls of the Delaware south to the Rancocas Creek. Acquired from the West Jersey Proprietors in 1676 by a group of English Quakers, most of whom hailed from Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and South Yorkshire in the Midlands, the Yorkshire Tenth contained approximately 64,000 acres. In 1678, the first wave of settlers headed for the Yorkshire Tenth arrived at Burlington aboard the Shield, spurred in part by the economic prospects of the New World and in part by a desire for a measure of religious toleration that was less than forthcoming at home. In the spring of 1679, these initial settlers traveled the short distance upstream from Burlington to the Falls of the Delaware where they proceeded to set up the first farmsteads on the bluffs and terraces overlooking the Delaware River and the mouth of the Assunpink. From 1681, this area fell under the jurisdiction of the court established at Burlington, the emerging port that in 1694 became the seat of the county then formally constituted with the same name. In 1688, land within the Yorkshire Tenth extending between the Assunpink and Crosswicks Creek became the basis for the municipality named Nottingham Township. In 1700, land extending northward from the Assunpink became a part of Hopewell Township, newly created within Burlington County in this year (Snyder 1969). Incipient settlement at the Falls of the Delaware, on both sides of the Delaware River, is evident on an early map copied in 1679 by Jasper Danckaerts, a member of a Labadist sect who was sent to the New World in order to scout locations for a planned Labadist settlement (Figure A. 4). The Danckaerts map marks the course of the Assunpink Creek as "Mill River" and shows a wagon route leading south from the creek to the point of the bluff at present-day Riverview Cemetery. The point of intersection of the wagon route and Mill River likely corresponds with the present-day location of the South Broad Street bridge over the Assunpink and almost certainly was the site of Mahlon Stacy's gristmill, erected in the same year that Danckaerts produced his map. Danckaerts himself, accompanied by Peter Sluyter, also traveled to the Falls of the Delaware at this time. The pair visited the mill and apparently stayed overnight at Stacy's house, uncomfortably by all accounts (Trenton Historical Society 1929: 32; James and Jameson 1959: 96-97). Mahlon Stacy, a native of Handsworth, near Sheffield in Yorkshire, was the original Quaker settler on the Assunpink Creek at the Falls of the Delaware. The holder of two full proprietary shares within the province of West Jersey and a tanner by trade, Stacy laid claim to a large and desirable property that straddled both sides of the Assunpink. He established the main house on his plantation (named "Ballifield" after his ancestral home in England) in the vicinity of the present-day William Trent House and erected his gristmill, probably a small one or one-and-a-half story frame structure, a short distance upstream on the south bank of the Assunpink. The creek was variously known during this period as the Assunpink (often spelled Assanpink), the Sun Pink or St. Pink, the Derwent (a common river name in northern England), the Darwin and the Darion.