John Robb, Sr.

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Husband John Robb, Sr. ¹

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         Father: Joseph Robb (      -      ) 1
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1 M John Robb, Jr. ¹

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General Notes: Husband - John Robb, Sr.

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"the founder"

William Penn having obtained a grant from Charles II, in 1681, for the land now known as Pennsylvania (Penn's Woods), founded the city of Philadelphia in 1682, which city was practically all of Pennsylvania during the colonial period. The inducements offered by Penn to attract settlers upon this grant were of such a character as to attract the attention of emigrants from England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the Continent generally, and especially Scotland and the north of Ireland, and it is not surprising to find the Robbs coming in families consisting of fathers and sons and in groups of families, seeking new homes in the new land.
It should be remembered at the outset that Philadelphia was the only city in Pennsylvania of any importance in the early years of 1700, and that all emigrants would probably, after landing at that point, diverge toward the most available and most attractive places open for settlement. Consequently we find a number of settlements by the Robbs in Chester, Lancaster and Cumberland counties. The earliest mention of the Robb family in Pennsylvania is under the date of 1725, when Henry Robb, of Germantown (Philadelphia), a weaver by trade, in 1738 appeared as a witness to the signing of a will of one of his neighbors; he seems to have removed to Cheltenham, Philadelphia, now Montgomery county, where he resided in 1746, where an executor of the will of one George Trout executed a deed for some property in this capacity.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 132.