An Historical and Genealogical Account of Andrew Robeson: Of Scotland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and of His Descendants from 1653 to 1916

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Lippincott, 1916 - 760 pages
Andrew Robeson Jr. (1654-1720), immigrated about 1676 with his uncle, Andrew Robeson Sr. Andrew Jr. settled in Gloucester Co., New Jersey, and in 1702 moved to Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania. He married Mary Spencer about 1685.
 

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Page 16 - First and principally I commit my soul into the hands of Almighty God, and my body to the earth to be decently buried...
Page 56 - She According to the Custom of Marriage Assuming the Name of her Husband, as a further Confirmation thereof: Did then and there to these Presents Set their Hands, and we whose Names are here under also subscribed, being present, at the Solemnization of the said Marriage and Subscription, have as Witnesses thereunto set our Hands the Day and Year above Written 1754.
Page 35 - HATH granted bargained, sold, aliened, released and confirmed, and by these Presents, DOTH grant, bargain, sell, alien, release and confirm...
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Page 35 - ... together with all and singular the improvements, ways, woods, waters, water-courses, rights, liberties, privileges, hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever, thereunto belonging, or in any wise appertaining, and the reversions and remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof.
Page 249 - The best blood of England flows in my veins; on my father's side I am a Northumberland, on my mother's I am related to kings, but this avails me not. My name shall live in the memory of man when the titles of the Northumberlands and the Percys are extinct and forgotten.
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