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  1. James Robb: Birth: 1788 in Pennsylvania. Death: 5 JUL 1863 in Highland Co., OH


Sources
1. Title:   RootsWeb.com WorldConnect -- Sandy's Family Tree (Sandy Ward)

Notes
a. Note:   ALEXANDER ROBB
  Alexander Robb was of Irish ancestry and a Protestant by faith. He was educated in Ireland for a professional schoolteacher. He emmigrated to America from Londonderry, Ireland, and settled in Brownsville, Penn., on the Allegheny River. A few years later, he was married to Miss Barbara Light, and they, in company with her three brothers Jacob, Peter, George C. and their families in 1793, floated down the Ohio River on a flat-boat, landing at Cincinnati. In 1794 they settled twenty miles east of that city. Jacob laid out New Richmond, Claremont County, and lived to see it a thriving little village. Peter was among the first surveyors of Clermont county, and George C. became a prominent Methodist minister of southern Ohio. Alexander Robb, with his family, settled on a small farm three miles back of New Richmond, on the banks of Twelve-Mile Creek in a wild, wooded country inhabited only by wild animals and a few scattered Indians. Alexander was not strongly constituted, so James, the eldest son, undertook the hardest work. Finally his father died and James found himself, at the age of sixteen, with a farm to clear up and a mother and six sibling children to provide for. At the age of twenty-six, he married Catherine, daughter of Christian and Catherine Husong, who was born at Columbia, Hamilton Co., Ohio, where her parents, who were natives of Pennsylvania, were taking refuge in Jarred's Station, fearing the depredations of the Indians. After his marriage, James remained on the old homestead near New Richmond. He bought 300 acres of land, for which he paid by freighting salt in a keel-boat from Kanawha River, West Virginia, to New Madrid, Tenn., there being no steamboats on the river at that early date. Christian Husong, settled on the east fork of the Little Miami River, four miles east of Batavia, where he lived to the ripe old age of one hundred and three years. Christian Husong and his wife were Germans, as also were the Light family.
  The above was adapted from Family Tree Maker, CD450: County and Family Histories: Ohio, 1780-1970, Disk 1, Clinton County, Biographical Sketches, Marion Township. Broderbund Software, Inc., Banner Blue Division, March 14, 1999. The original account was published in 1882.


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