Posted by: "Garry Heagy" gheagy@netflash.net gheagy@netflash.net
    Date: Wed Sep 27, 2017 9:19 am ((PDT))

    The article below supports Mathias being a son of Thomas Robbins born, 1762.  The information on Thomas’ birth in interesting, I wonder how that got
started.

    From the Portrait and Biographical Record of Winnebago and Boone Counties, Illinois, pg 320:
THOMAS ROBBINS, who is engaged in mixed farming at his pleasant home on section 20, LeRoy Township, Boone County, keeps almost twenty-five dairy cows on
his place marketing the product at a creamery a short distance from his home.  He was born in Franklin County, Ohio, in 1833, and is a son of Mathias
Robbins, who had his birth July 27, 1796, in Columbia County, Pa.  The grandfather of our subject, Thomas Robbins, was a farmer in England and , on
emigrating to America came in an early day to Pennsylvania.  He came to the New World in company with six brothers, who made their home in as many
different states.  The wife of Grandfather Robbins, previous to her marriage, was Elizabeth Cline, of German birth.  To them were born a family of six
sons and two daughters, only one of who is living. 
     Mathias Robbins was married in the Keystone State to Sarah Couder and went to Franklin County, Ohio, in 1820 with his wife and three children.  He
was a tailor by trade, which line of business he followed for fourteen years in Wood County, and in the fall of 1848 came to Illinois, being accompanied
by his family of seven children ....
     ... When the family of Mathias Robbins removed from Pennsylvania to Ohio in 1820, they made the journey with a team of horses and later, in 1848,
came to the Prairie State in the same manner, making over a thousand miles' journeying in this trip.