Ichabod Robie/Roby

Diane:

Benjamin Chase, _History of Old Chester_ (1869); digital images, _Ancestry.com_ (http://www.ancestry.com : 22 Oct 2008), pgs. 579-581 (many other references as well), for the biographical sketches about the Robie family, begins, “In a list made Feb. 1, 1677, of cottages erected in Haverhill since Jan. 25, 1675, is the name of John Robie. He lived in what is now Atkinson. June 16, 1691, he set out to move his family, consisting of seven children, the eldest not quite eleven years old (his wife having died a few days before), to a place of refuge, where Benjamin Clement lately lived, at the North Parish. He was returning with the family in a cart, and had got opposite the burying-ground, near Jesse Clement’s, where he was killed by the Indians, and his son Ichabod, probably the oldest, was taken captive by the Indians and carried off. There are two traditions, one that he was ransomed, and that other and most probable one, that by the aid of a friendly Indian, he escaped and returned home. (See Chase’s Hist. of Haverhill, p. 160.) … His name appears so often on the records that we might infer he removed to Chester, and he probably build a house on his home lot No. 116, … and spent considerable time in Chester, but never permanently resided here. His will was dated Oct. 10, 1762, proved Sept. 26, 1752 … legatees are his wife, Mary, sons [1] John, [2] Henry, and [3] Samuel, and Sarah Tilton. [… ].” The article continues with much information about Ichabod’s children.

Reuben Edward Robie, _Reuben Robie and Nancy Whiting Robie_ (Bath, N. Y.: unknown, 1892); digital images , _Ancestry.com_ (http://www.ancestry.com : 22 Oct 2008), pgs 7-8, entry for John Robie, son of Ichabod Robie; reports John b. 1712, m1 Ann Williams and their son “Edward [Robie], m. a Silver, went to Plymouth to live and was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War”; reports that among Edward’s descendants were grandsons Gen’l Jacob Carter Robie and the Rev. John Edward Robie (brothers).

William Grafton Robey, _Robey, Roby, Robie_ (1994), pg. 71; viewed as Google Books, digital snippet:
Edward Robie [… cut out of snippet …] marriage to Abigail Silver, moved to Plymouth, N. H. He was an Ensign in Capt. Moses Baker’s Company of the New Hampshire Volunteers. They went from Candia and joined the Continental Army at Saratoga, N. Y. In Sept. 1777. Among his descendants were his grandsons General Jacob Carter Robie and his brother, John Edward Robie. Gen. Jacob Carter Robie raised a regiment for the Mexican War, four Companies of the 27th Regiment, New York Volunteers, and the entire _9th Regiment, N. Y. Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion. […]

See also _History of Haverhill_; _History of Plymouth_. Separately, I’m sure hosts and hosts of information is available from the various volumes of the _New Hampshire State Papers_; all are available in electronic form, see http://www.sos.nh.gov/archives/nhstatepapers.html . There is an index available at the link.

I research the family of Benjamin and Ann Williams (Robie) Preston. If I've done this correctly, Ann Williams Robie was dau. of Edward^4 Robie (John^3, Icabod^2, John^1) and his wife, Abigail Silver. Ann’s marriage to Benjamin Preston is called out in _History of Plymouth_ (he is called “Thomas Presson of Rumney”). Ann Williams (Robie) Preston named two of her ten children after her parents (below), just as she appears to have been named for her paternal grandmother.
"Index to [New Hampshire] Births, Early to 1900," database of extracted records, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, FamilySearch.org (http://www.familysearch.org: accessed 15 June 2006), cites film No. 1001028:
ABIGAIL SILVER PRESTON Female Birth: 06 Mar 1820 Rumney Twp, Grafton, NH
Father: Benjamin Preston Mother: Ann Williams
EDWARD ROBIE PRESTON Male Birth: 12 May 1822 Rumney Twp, Grafton, NH
Father: Benjamin Preston Mother: Ann Williams

Ann’s youngest son, Corp. John A. Preston, died 1864 in the Civil War; the marker for him at Rumney Depot Cemetery reads, “I died for my county.” Ann is buried at Rumney Depot Cemetery. The inscription for her on the monument reads, “Ann W., wife, died Sept 5, 1844, ae 58.”