"The AMERICAN LOYALISTS, or BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF ADHERENTS TO THE BRITISH CROWN IN
THE WAR OP THE REVOLUTION; ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED; with a PRELIMINARY HISTORICAL ESSAY."
LORENZO SABINE
1848

Leake, Robert.  Of New York.  His property was confiscated.

Robins, John.  An ensign in the King's Rangers.  He was at the Island of
St. John, Gulf of St. Lawrence, before the close of 1782, and invited other
Loyalists to join those already there.


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HISTORICAL ESSAY."
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Vol II
1864

Long, John.  The following incident occurred on the Waldo Patent, Maine.
"Among the many who were drawn to this quarter from other places for the
sake of carrying on intercourse with the British [at Castine] was one
Captain John Long, who frequently passed to and fro, plotting schemes of
mischief. Being found at Warren, on one occasion, the people undertook
to arrest him.  Seeing himself surrounded, with no chance of escape, he
brandished his knife, and threatened the life of any one who should approach.
This caused a little hesitation; but the circle gradually contracted around
him, till he was seized by John Spear, from whose grasp, once fixed, there
was no disengagement, and was disarmed, pinioned, and taken to Waldo borough,
on horseback.  A party there undertook to conduct him to the county jail,
but, somehow or other, he found means to effect his escape this time; though
in 1781 he was again apprehended in Camden, and sent all the way to Boston,
under the care of Philip Robbins of Stirlington."

RoBBiNS, Joseph.  A native of Plymouth, Massachusetts.  He died at Chebogue,
Nova Scotia, in 1839, aged eighty-two.  His descendants at the time of
his decease were two hundred and two; namely, thirteen children, ninety
grandchildren, and ninety-nine great-grandchildren.

RoBBiNS. Of Connecticut. Ephraim, member of the leading Loyalist Association.
Residence unknown. William, a Lieutenant of cavalry in the British Legion.
John, an Ensign in the King's Rangers, was at the island of St. John, Gulf
of St. Lawrence, before the close of 1782, and invited other Loyalists to
join those already there.  An Ensign Robbins, of the New Jersey Volunteers,
was taken prisoner on Staten Island, in 1777, and sent to Trenton.

Shoemaker, Samuel.  Of Philadelphia.  An Alderman of the city.
Distinguished for his zeal on the side of the Crown.  Attainted of treason
and estate confiscated.  Embarked at Philadelphia, June, 1778.  In 1783
Ezekiel Robins, at New York, wrote the President of Pennsylvania that Mr.
Shoemaker had exerted himself for the relief of Whig prisoners; and that,
by his intercessions with the Admiral, numbers had been liberated and sent
home. When about to sail for England, (August, 1783,) his son informed
William Moore, Vice-President of the Council of Pennsylvania, that the
papers in his possession w^hich related to the city would be cheerfully
surrendered to any person authorized to receive them.  While in London he
was much consulted by the Commissioners appointed to pass upon the claims of
Loyalists for losses, and was admitted to a private interview with the King.
The British Government made him a liberal compensation for his losses,
He ventured to return to Philadelphia in 1789, and "was thought to be in
much danger"; but was treated with civility, even by the most violent.

Watts, John. Of New York. Member of the Council.  The original name was
Watt. The subject of this notice was born in New York in 1715, and was
appointed to the Council in 1758, at which time his brother-in-law, James
De Lancey, was at the head of public affairs.  He was so popular with the
"Government-men" of the Colony, that, in 1775, he was designated to succeed
Governor Colden; but strange are the vicissitudes of human life ; on the 4th
of May of that very year he abandoned his native country, and never returned
to it.  He embarked for England, in the packet Charlotte, "with a heavy
heart," he said, "foreseeing the distresses which were hanging over us." His
estate was confiscated. The house in which he lived was near Whitehall, in
the part of Pearl which was formerly called Dock Street.  He died in Wales,
in 1789.  His wife, Ann De Lancey, whom he married in 1742, died in 1775,
and two months after leaving New York.  He was the father of ten children,
of whom three died in infancy.  His daughter Ann, who died in 1793, married
Captain Archibald Kennedy, R. N., who succeeded to the titles and estates
of his family, as eleventh Earl of Cassilis; their son, the twelfth Earl,
was born in America.  Susanna, another daughter, was the wife of Colonel
Philip Kearney, and the mother of Stephen Watts Kearney, General in the
United States Army.  Mary, the fourth daughter, married Sir John Johnson,
Knight and Baronet. [See notice of her husband.] Margaret, the youngest,
was the wife of Major Robert Wil liam Leake.  Of his son Stephen, presently.
His son, the late Hon. John Watts, owned and occupied a house in Broad
way, New York, which he sold for £2000 sterling in 1792, which could have
been sold for |107,000 in 1836, and which was lately purchased for $37,500.
This gentleman, who made a munificent donation to the Orphan Asylum, New York,
married Jane De Lancey, a cousin-german.  The late General Philip Kearney,
who lost an arm in Mexico, and his life in the present unhallowed rebellion,
was of his lineage.  Of Robert, the remaining child of the Loyalist, I have
no information.