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Note: Mentioned in Playter's History of Methodism as being the second largest contibutoer to the Adolphustown Methodist Church, which was built in 1792, on Paul Huff's land, and was the first Methodist church in Upper Canada. Dr Canniff states that after her husband's death she removed to Sophiasburgh where she bought a hunbdred acres of land for twenty-five dollars (which she paid in weaving) and that she herself cut down the trees and built her own log cabin. She subsequently marriewd John Canniff, founder of Cannifftown ab\nd great uncle of Dr. Canniff.
John Roblin was the first of the Robline to come to Canada and at the time of the Revolutionary War was settled with his brother Stephen in New Jersey. He was of English or Welsh descent. He tried to remain a non-participant in the war; but as he sat on his stoop one evening, a party of Continental scouts came by and, without any provocation or previous warning,fired fourteen shots at the house. Having ransacked the premises, they demanded that they be told where the money was concealed, and in order to make them divulge the hiding place, John Roblin, although already wounded in the knee, was stripped nearly naked; and his brother, Stephen, was hung to a tree by his thumbs. The party, balked in their search, became grossly offensive; one man pointing his musket at John Roblin's wife (the point of the bayonet to her breast), daring her to call George III of England her King. She did dare but just as the fellow was about to fire a comrade knocked the musket aside.
John Roblin seems to have been taken prisoner as he was placed in a rebel hospital where his treatment was so neglected that he became a lifelong cripple. In his absence his wife complained to General Washington about the treatment they had received and they were not again disturbed.
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