From: Robbinsfamilysouthjersey@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Marshall Lake [mlake@mlake.net] Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 11:32 AM To: South Jersey ROBINS/ROBBINS Mailing List Subject: [Robbinsfamilysouthjersey] Nathan & Randolph ROBINS Does anyone know who the Nathan ROBINS and Randolph ROBINS are named in the attached transcription? Could they be brothers and the sons of Samuel ROBINS and Margaret PAGE ? I have Randall rather than Randolph as the name of the son in question. New Jersey Supreme Court case #32530 New Jersey to wit. The State of New Jersey to our sheriff of our County of Monmouth greeting. We command you to summon Abigail Longstreet and Gilbert Longstreet, executors of the last will and testament of Stoffel Longstreet, deceased, personally to be and appears before our justices of our Supreme Court at Trenton on the second Tuesday of November next, to and for Nathan Robins and Randolph Robins, executors of the testament and last will of Samuel Allen, deceased, of a plea that they tender to them four hundred pounds which from them they unjustly detain, as is said, and have you there then their ? witness David Brearley Esquire our Chief Justice of Trenton aforesaid the second day in September in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and eighty-three. Houston The bond is assigned to Gabriel Allen. Supr Court Extr of Samuel Allen } ? vs } ? Extr of Stoffel Longstreet } ? ? Nov term 1783 Cost 1# 6 sh have summoned Abigail Longstreet & Gilbert Longstreet J. Burrows Sheriff New Jersey towit. The State of New Jersey to our sheriff of our County of Morris greeting. Whereas we lately commanded our Sheriff of our County of Hunterdon to take Abigail Longstreet and Gilbert Longstreet, executors of the testament and last will of Stoffel Longstreet deceased of in his bailiwick they should be found and to keep them safely so that he might have their bodies before us in our Supreme Court at Trenton on a certain day now past to answer Nathan Robins and Randolph Robins executors of the testament and last will of Samuel Allen deceased of a plea of trespass and also to the bill of the same Nathan Robins and Randolph Robins against the said Abigail Longstreet and Gilbert Longstreet ? force ? ? ? of debt according to the custom of our said Court before us to be exhibited and one said sheriff at the day to us did return that the said Abigail Longstreet and Gilbert Longstreet were not found in his bailiwick, upon which on the behalf of the said Nathan Robins and Randolph Robins ? ? ? our Justices ? before us that the said Abigail Longstreet and Gilbert Longstreet ? ? in your County. Therefore we command you as before we have often times commanded you to take them if in your bailiwick they may be found and to ? them safely so that you have their bodies before us in our Supreme Court of Trenton on the first Tuesday of September next ? ? the said Nathan Robins and Randolph Robins of the plea ? ? aforesaid ; and have you then these their ? witness David Brearley, Esq. our Chief Justice at Trenton aforesaid the seventeenth day of May in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and eighty three. Wm Houston, clk Houston ? } ? ? Robins } ? ? ? } ? ? ? } ? Longstreet } [pounds] 400 at the September term 1783 N.E. J. Burrows, Sheriff New Jersey Supreme Court of the term of November in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and eighty-three. Hunterdon, towit. Nathan Robins and Randolph Robins, executors of the testament and last will of Samuel Allen, deceased, put in their place William Churchill Houston, their attorney, against Abigail Longstreet and Gilbert Longstreet, executors of the testament and last will of Stoffel Longstreet, deceased, in a Plea of Debt. Hunterdon, towit. Nathan Robins and Randolph Robins, executors of the testament and last will of Samuel Allen, deceased, complain of Abigail Longstreet and Gilbert Longstreet executors of the testament and last will of Stoffel Longstreet, deceased, in custody, etc in a plea that they render to them four hundred pounds which from them they unjustly detain, for this, towit, that whereas the said Stoffel Longstreet in his life-time, towit, on the twenty ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-one, at Trenton in the County of Hunterdon, by his certain writing obligatory, sealed with the seal of the said Stoffel Longstreet in his life-time, and to the Court now here shown, the date whereof is the same day and year, acknowledged himself to be held and firmly bound to the said Samuel Allen, in his life-time in the said four hundred pounds to be paid to the said Samuel Allen when he the said Stoffel Longstreet should be there and after required; nevertheless the said Stoffel Longstreet in his life-time, or the said Abigail Longstreet and Gilbert Longstreet, or either of them, after his death, although often required, etc. to the said Samuel Allen in his life-time, or the said Nathan Robins and Randolph Robins, or to either of them, after the death of the said Samuel Allen, the said four hundred pounds have not, nor hath either of them, yet paid, but the said Stoffel Longstreet in his life-time, did altogether neglect, and the said Abigail Longstreet and Gilbert Longstreet since his death have neglected and still do neglect to pay, and do unjustly detain the same, to the damage of the said Nathan Robins and Randolph Robins fifty pounds and therefore they produce this suit etc and the same Nathan Robins and Randolph Robins produce here in Court the Letters testamentary of the last will and testament of the said Samuel Allen whereby it ? appears to the Court here, that they are executors of the said testament and last will and thereof have the administration, etc. W Houston, for the pffs Pledges of ? John Doe and Richard Roe Know all men by these presents that I Stoffel Longstreet of the Township of Upper Freehold in the County of Monmouth and Province of East New-Jersey, Yeoman, am held and firmly bound unto Samuel Allen of the Township of Nottingham in the County of Burlington, and western Division, farmer, in the just term of four hundred pounds, current money of New Jersey, who paid to the said Samuel Allen, or his certain attorney, heirs, Exrs, Adms or assigns to the which payment will and truly to be made and done I do hereby bind myself, my heirs Exrs and Adms each and every of them firmly by these presents. Sealed with my seal and dated this twenty-ninth day of April anno domi one thousand seven hundred and seventy one. The condition of the above obligation is such that if the above bounden Stoffel Longstreet or his heirs, Exrs Adms or any of them shall and do will and truly pay or cause to be paid to the above named Samuel Allen, or his certain attorney, Exrs Adms or assigns the just and full sum of two hundred pounds, lawful money as above said, on or before the twenty-ninth day of April next ? the date hereof with lawful interest for the same, without fraud or further delay, then this obligation to be void and of none effect or else to stand and remain in full force and virtue. Sealed and delivered in Stoffel Longstreet the presents [sic] of ? [seal] Supr Court The Exrs of Samuel } in debt Allen, deceased } ? Nar ag } ? The Exrs of Stoffel } Bond & Longstreet, deceased } Warr. of November term 178? filed April 17th 1784 Houston -- Marshall Lake -- mlake@mlake.net -- http://mlake.net