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Family/Spouse: Lydia KIMBERLY. Lydia and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Robert married Elizabeth ROBLIN in 1820. Elizabeth (daughter of Owen ROBLIN and Margaret RUTTAN) was born in 1802; died in 1844. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Settled in Tweed

Elizabeth Roblin (Owen2,Owen1) daughter of Owen Roblin Jr. and Mary Elizabeth Ruttan was born about 1802 in Upper Canada. In 1820 Elizabeth married Robert Casper VanDusen, son of Caspar VanDusen and Hannah Mary Shorts. Robert was born Apr. 2, 1799. Elizabeth and Robert lived in Tweed, Hastings County.

Elizabeth died about 1844. Robert married Mary Ann Brown in 1845. Robert died may 25, 1873.

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Caspar married Hannah Mary SHORTS. Hannah and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Owen Roblin married Margaret Ruttan, and had a large farm on the third concession of Adolphustown, where he lived for many years and died at an advanced age. To distinguish him from the many other prominent men of his own name, now a familiar one throughout the county, he was called the "one-eyed" Roblin, owing to the fact that at an early age he suffered the misfortune of losing the sight of one eye. His descendants are numerous and are recognized as many of the leading business men and farmers in the county.

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He cam to Canada with his father in the Vanalstine Party to Canada. He lived and died in Adolphustown/> His will was dated March 23, 1852. He was known as "one eyed Owen" from an accident when a child stuck a stick in his eye.

Owen and Mary lived on Lot 24 , Con 3 in Adolphustown. They are found there in 1794 with one male and one female both over 16 years of age. In 1851 Owen P. 85 and Mary 76, are living in Adolphustown with their son Stephen Roblin and his family

Owen married Margaret RUTTAN about 1793. Margaret (daughter of Jacob William RUTTAN and Margaret HARING) was born in Jan 1776 in Paramus, Bergen, New Jersey, USA; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Mary Elizabeth RUTTAN

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61. William RUTAN Lieutenant was born on 2 Apr 1759 in Schraalenburgh, Bergen, New Jersey. Christened on 24 Jun 1759 in Schraalenburgh, Bergen, New Jersey. Died on 9 Oct 1843 in Adolphustown, Lennox & Addington, Ontario. Buried on 11 Oct 1843 in St. Albans, Adolphustown, Lennox & Addington, Ontario. NAME: "Retan" according to IGI.

MILITARY SERVICE: "...though only 17 at the outbreak of the revolution, was commissioned Lieutenant of the Associated Loyalists. His older brother was Captain Peter Ruttan, who had commanded a regiment during the revolution and who was second in command of Major Van Alstine's party ofloyalists that landed at Adolphustown in March, 1784. William and his wife, Margaret, were of that party." (Stuart Adams letter, July 21, 1991).

CHILDREN: "There first child, an infant, died on the trip from Montreal to Adolphustown." (Stuart Adams letter, July 21, 1991).

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: "William also settled in Adolphustown, married and Irish girl, Margaret Steele, who had crossed the ocean with her parents. In the hungry years of 1788 in order to get some food William, who had some money saved from the sale of his commission, sent two men to lbany during the winter months for four bushels of Indian corn which they carried on their backs through forests without roads. As the Ruttans possessed a cow, her milk, plus the precious corn, with roots and berries from the woods, provided enough nourishment to keep eight persons alive until the following harvest." (Reaman, 1964 p.219).

RESIDENCE: "William took his two hundred acres immediately east of the Adolphustown village site and Peter took his on a point of land northwest of the village." (Stuart, 1991 p?).

BIOGRAPHY: "Anyway, William Ruttan (Peter William and Henry 's father) seems to have been a properous man, too, more prosperous than his older brother, Captain Peter. William and Peter and Peter William's wife's mother Elizabeth Roblin, were amongst the twenty-two who paid for the building of Upper Canada's first Episcopal Methodist Church, in 1792, at Hay Bay, near Adolphustown. (Adams, 1991 p.5).

RELIGION: "William, however, joined St. Alban's Anglican Church, Adolphustown, when it was built in 1822 and is buried in St. Alban's cemetery. He may, in fact, have played a part in building the Anglican church and perhaps even donated the building site, since the church seems to be about where William's land would have been. His converting to more respectable and establishment Anglicanism was, and remains, a typical thing for a prospering Canadian to do but I like to think that his conversion had something to do with the Methodist preacher's having talked him into burning his beloved violin, telling him it was the Devil's instrument. Perhaps it was his wife, Fanny, and her mother, the redoubtable Elizabeth Roblin, who had roped him into Methodism and he later counter-rebelled, preferring music now to heaven later." (Adams, 1991 p.5).

DEATH: "Ruttan, William, a descendant of a family of Huguenots from Rochelle, France, who sought refuge in England and america, died in Adolphustown, the 9th inst., in his 85th year" ("The Christian Guardian" newspaper death notice of October 25, 1843, p.3, cited in "Death Notices from the Christian Guardian 1836-1850 by Rev. Donald A. McKenzie, published by Hunterdon House on Lambertville, N.J., in 1982, page 271).

CEMETERY: St. Albans Anglican Church Cemetery, Adolphustown, #33. Inscription reads died Oct 1843, aged 84 years.

He married Margaret STEEL on 10 Jun 1782 in New York. Margaret STEEL was born in 1764 in Ireland. Died on 1 Feb 1844 in Adolphustown, Lennox & Addington, Ontario. Buried on 5 Feb 1844 in St. Albans, Adolphustown, Lennox & Addington, Ontario.

DEATH: "Ruttan, Mrs Margaret, wife of Wm. Ruttan, died in Adolphustown, the 1st inst., in her 80th year. feb. 21, 1844 p.71. D.N." (cited in D.A. McKenzie's "Death Notices from the Christian Guardian 1836 - 1850" p.271).

DEATH: H. N. Ruttan records "Margaret died on February 1 and was interred beside William (in the Cemetery of St. Paul's Church [Church of England]) on February 5, 1844." "Ruttan, Mrs. Margaret, wife of Wm. Ruttan, died in Adolphustown, the 1st inst., in her 80th year." ("The Christian Guardian" Newspaper death notice, February 21, 1844, p.71, cited in "Death Notices from The Christian Guardian 1836-1850 by Rev. Donald A. McKenzie, Hunterdon House: Lambertville, N.J., 1982).

CEMETERY: St. Albans Anglican Church Cemetery, Adolphustown, #33. Inscription reads died Feb 1844, aged 80 years, wife of William

SIBLING: Mathew Steel, a loyalist

NAME: Given as "Margaret Steele" in G. Elmore Reaman's book (1964, p.219).

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: "... an Irish girl, Margaret Steele, who had crossed the ocean with her parents." (Reaman, 1964 p.219).

They had the following children:

81 i. RUTTAN was born after Nov 1783 in Sorel, Richelieu, Quebec. Died before Oct 1784.

+82 ii. Peter William RUTTAN

+83 iii. Daniel RUTTAN

+84 iv. Henry RUTTAN Major

+85 v. Abraham W RUTTAN

+86 vi. Elizabeth RUTTAN

+87 vii. Matthew RUTTAN

+88 viii. Jacob RUTTAN

+89 ix. Charles Stuart RUTTAN



62. John RUTAN was born about 1760.

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• Residence: Abt 1755, Troy, Rensselaer, New York, United States
• Residence: Bef 1766, Bergen County, New Jersey, USA
• Residence: Abt 1769, Monroe, Orange, New York, United States
• Military: Jul 1780, Bulls Ferry, NJ, USA
• Residence: 1783, Sorel, , Qu
• Residence: 16 Jun 1784, Adolphustown Township, Lennox & Addington County, Ontario, Canada

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We do not know the name of Owen's wife, it appears that she died in New York before Owen came to Canada. Owen is listed on the passenger list of the Hope in 1783 with 4 children...we do not know who the fourth child is either. Owen's brother Philip was also on the Hope with his family. Mary, Rebecca and Owen Jr all petition for land as the children of a UEL and list Owen Roblin as their father. (Linda Herman)

In his 1788 British government claim regarding his losses, Owen described his farm and holdings, initiated c. 1769, as follows
"Had a Lease farm held of David Mathews in Orange Co. It was for four years or 5 years a time, but says he could have sold the Improvements. He had lived there 10 years.

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Owen claimed to have participated in the battle at Ward's Blockhouse near Bull's Ferry, NJ

Owen married Unknown before 1766. Unknown died between 1782 and 1783 in New York, New York, New York, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Owen's wife and 4 children are listed with him in 1782 but only Owen's oldest son subsequently accompanied him to Canada in 1783.

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Jacob married Margaret HARING about 1775. Margaret was born about 1755; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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