History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . n Rob-ertson being mentionedin the records of Green-wich in 1677, and Wil-liam Robertson removedfrom that town to Bed-ford in 1744, havingbought of Daniel Merrittthe farm at Cantito,which is yet in possessionof the family. He hadseveral children, some ofwhom died unmarried, and one removed to SaratogaCounty, where his descendants still live. The home-stead remained in the ownership of his son Jabez,who was twice married. By his last marriage he hadthree dau
History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . n Rob-ertson being mentionedin the records of Green-wich in 1677, and Wil-liam Robertson removedfrom that town to Bed-ford in 1744, havingbought of Daniel Merrittthe farm at Cantito,which is yet in possessionof the family. He hadseveral children, some ofwhom died unmarried, and one removed to SaratogaCounty, where his descendants still live. The home-stead remained in the ownership of his son Jabez,who was twice married. By his last marriage he hadthree daughters—Rachel, Betsey and Catharine—andthree sons—Jabez, Lawrence and Henry, the last twobeing twins, familiarly called Harry and Larry. Theold friends of Henry Robertson well remember hishumorous way of relating that he was one of a pair ottwins, of whom one was born in November and theother in December, which was a fact, their birthshaving occurred half an hour apart. He was bornDecember 1, L791. His boyhood and early educationwere like those of other boys of the vicinity. Hetaught school for some time, and for several years. BEDFORD. 591 kept a store in a part of the house now owned by Ambler, in Bedford village, then the property ofBenjamin Isaacs. He was also for a time in partner-ship with his brother Jabez, near the Baptist Church,in the same business. On April 4, 1822, he marriedHnldafa H. Fanton, daughter of Hull Fantou, ofWeston, Connecticut. They had five children—Wil-liam H.; Elizabeth, wife of the late A. F. Dickinson;Sarah, wife of J. F. Sherwood, who died in 1850 ;Marietta, wife of John C. Holmes, of Lewisboro; andEmma, wife of Joseph Barrett. After his marriagehe lived on the farm, and for more than thirty years,before the days of railroads, he ran a market-wagonto Tarrytown and Cos Cob. In this business his ge-nial disposition and upright dealings gave him a suc-cessful trade. In politics he was firsta Federalist, and after-wards a Whig, and al- ^^
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