Posted by:  richard.robbins13@yahoo.com richard.robbins13
    Date: Mon Oct 12, 2015 8:01 pm ((PDT))

Got this in the email today, and I want to know if anyone has any info on whether these are relations?
 

 Mr. Robbins:

I read your post about Robbins DNA with great interest, for obvious
reasons. I'm looking into our family's genealogy in the wake of my
grandfather's passing.
 
My father is Patrick Robbins, born in Newton, NJ. His father is Donald
Robbins, Born in Newton, NJ, who operated the Robbins Store in Middleville,
NJ and died in Lexington, KY yesterday. Donald's father was Victor Robbins,
president of the Newton Trust Company and owner/operator of the Robbins Store.
Victor's father was Alfred Robbins, who purchased the Robbins Store in
1903 and also worked as a carpenter and a fur broker. Alfred's father was
Patrick Robbins, who was the oldest son of Charles and Hannah. I can track
Charles to his birthplace in Monmouth County, NJ (where I currently reside).
Interestingly enough, until the mid 1990s Donald and his wife, Shirley,
kept in touch with their Spangenberg cousins. Donald, Victor and Alfred
were all only sons. My father, Patrick, has one sister, Donna Robbins Poyer,
who has two children of her own.

We're not completely sure who Charles Robbins' father was, just that Charles
was born in or near 1776 and his father fought in the Revolutionary War.
Family legend has it that Charles's father was a Loyalist fighting on the
side of the British, but I have no evidence to confirm this.

As the last known living direct patrilineal Robbins descendant in New
Jersey, I've been trying to hunt down my distant cousins. Donald Robbins,
who just died, will return to Stillwater, NJ to be buried later this week. He
was the last great source for my genealogical explorations of our family
line, as he kept detailed records of our history and preserved many of our
family's relics.


 Possibly your distant cousin,
 Christopher Robbins