James TOBIN^[1]

1722 - 1759  (37 years)

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• Name	James TOBIN
  Born	1722	Springfield, VA   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	6 Feb 1759	, Hunterdon, NJ, USA   [3, 4]
  Person ID	I1311	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	8 Jul 2022

  
  

  Father	George TOBIN,   b. Abt 1702,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Mary
  Family ID	F5459	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Esther KIDWELL,   b. 1725, Somerset, PA ,   d. 1779, Page, , VA  (Age 54 years)
  Children	+ 1. Nathaniel TOBIN,   b. 1746, , NJ ,   d. 1831, , Culpeper, VA  (Age 85 years)   2. Sarah TOBIN,   b. 1747, Fairfax, Virginia ,   d. 1803, Springhill, Westmoreland, PA, USA  (Age 56 years)   3. Isaac (Tobey) TOBIN, *,   b. 23 Jun 1750, Amwell Twp., Hunterdon, NJ, USA ,   d. 1836, , Guernsey, OH, USA  (Age 85 years)   4. George TOBIN   5. Joseph TOBIN   6. Lydia TOBIN   7. Mary TOBIN   8. Naomy TOBIN   9. Robert TOBIN   10. Rosanna TOBIN   11. Ruth TOBIN   12. Thomas TOBIN
  Last Modified	8 Jul 2022
  Family ID	F1341	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  According to an unrelated Tobin, most Tobins came from County Kilkenney or just west of there in Ireland. (CL-329) Before Ireland, the name came from D'Aubyn. Another Tobin was told that her ancestors were from County Cork, Ireland and might have originally been from Scotland. (CL-352) A distant cousin, S. McNeely sent a listing of multiple Tobins living in Dublin, Ireland from 1731-1794. (CL-546) There is a possibility that James was born in Somerset, Pennsylvania instead according a family tree on Ancestry.com. His death is verified by an application for Probate. He died intestate in Hunterdon Co., New Jersey. A bond was put up by William Allen of Amwell and Richard Reading. William Allen was named Administator. His sons were all too young to be bondsman. The will of James Tobin of Loudoun Co., Va., recorded 9 May, 1774, names his wife, Esther, sons George, Thomas, Joseph and Robert, and his daughters, Sarah Masterson, and Mary, Lydia, Ruth, Naomy and Rosanna Tobin. It does not name Nathaniel and Isaac so we are going to need to verify Isaac through land or DNA records as his son. If Esther married James when she was 16 and he was 19, that would be in 1741. If all of the children I have listed for James and Esther are correct, they would have been born 18 years maximum and had 12 children in that amount of time. A Nathaniel Toby and an Isaac Toby are listed in the Hunterdon Co. New Jersey Tax Ratables in 1778 and 1789. Nathaniel is listed in 1778 as owning a small lot, 2 horned cattle and 1 hog. In 1780 he did not still own the hog. Isaac's holdings are listed on his family group sheet. These ratables were taken from Amwell Twp., Hunterdon County, New Jersey. The only other Tobin listed in Hunterdon Co. was a Thomas Tobin from Lebanon Twp. He seemed to be very well to do with 336 acres, 12 horses, 27 horned cattle and 22 hogs in 1778. (CL-197) There is Tobey family in Sandwich, Massachusetts named Nathan Tobey who was having children. A Joseph in 1728 is another less likely but possible father of this James. Nathan left a will on 1787 in Sandwich, MA that should be located and checked. (N.E.H.G.R., Apr. 1959) There is a James Tobin who was a convict who was pressed into the service in 1755 in the Maryland Archives Records whose relationship is not yet known either.

  
  

• Sources

  [S865] Jeannetta Tobin to Linda Coate Dudick Letter dated Mar. 7, 1985 at Rincon Cuntry West-#345, 4555 S. Mission Rd., Tucson, AZ 85714 In Linda Coate files. [S1037] Public Member Tree (www.ancestry.com). [S873] World Family Tree at www.ancestry.com. [S870] New Jersey Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817 (New Jersey State Archives. New Jersey, Published Archives Series, First Series. Trenton, New Jersey: John L Murphy Publishing Company).