Robbins, Joseph
patriot, revolutionary soldier, was born Feb. 22, 1729, in Acton, Mass. He commanded a company of yeomanry in the first fight with the British at the old North Bridge at Concord, April 19, 1775, in response to the call of Paul Revere. On patriot's day, 1895, the citizens of Acton, Concord and Lexington set up a large memorial stone on the place where once stood the home of Capt.
Joseph Robbins. He died March 31, 1800.
ROBBINS, MRS. MARY CAROLINE [PIKE], author, was born in 1842, in Maine. She is a writer for the magazines on art, landscape gardening, and kindred topics; and is the author of The Rescue of An Old Place.
ROBBINS, RENSSELAER DAVID CHANCEFORD, linguist, educator, author, was born Dec. 23, 1811, in Wardsborough, Vt. He contributed to the Bibliotheca Sacra, translated Egypt and the Books of Moses from the German of E. W.
Hengstenberg; and Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates, with notes, and edited the third and fourth editions of Prof.
Moses Stuart's Commentaries on the Epistles to the Romans, Hebrews and Ecclesiastes. He died Nov. 3, 1882, in Newton Highlands, Mass.