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Sailed on the Golden Rule from Whithorn, commanded by Captain Cragg in 1775. Landed in New York September, 1775. Mary brought her 8 children with her to America after her husband's death. They settled in Whiting,VT near Springfield in Pittsfield township, Windsor Co., VT.

In William's letter to son Daniel, he states his mother, grandmother, and two sisters died in Albany, NY. Could his grandmother be the Margaret McRoberts who married James Martin and later Noah Gaylord? "The History of Springfield" says this Margaret is an heiress and that she and James Martin had an Inn and Tavern, which later became known as Gaylord's Inn.

from Terry McRoberts http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3201375&id=I600716138

In Sep. 1775, Mary came to the U.S. with her children possibly on the ship "Golden Rule" commanded by Captain Cragg, Sept. from Scotland to Whiting (near Springfield in Pittsfield Township), Windsor Co., Vermont in the Hawk Mountains.
From Jeannie (McRobert) Brookshire:
There is some discrepancy as to where she died-sources (see James' notes) state either Addison or Rutland County, Vermont. William, her son, in his note to Daniel, his son, he states his mother, grandmother and 2 sisters died in Albany, NY.
According to Betty Rode she possibly came to US on the Golden Rule, commanded by Captain Cragg in Sept. 1775. REM (?) reports that she arrived with her children in 1775, settled in Whiting, Windsor, VT in the Hawks Mountains.
OLD UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS LIST: Mary McRobert (some names reference New York) at end of the Revolutionary War, Loyalists moved into New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Upper Canada. List is official register of families and individuals who adhered to Unity of Empire before the Treaty of Separation in 1783. (Internet source) On a list shows McRobert, Mary...Home District not sure what that means. According to Jean Kneeshaw, she was told that Chas Smith McRobert's family had lived in Canada before returning to New York.
Naming of children: Jannot could be her mother; her third daughter named after herself, her second son, William could be her father.
Noted By Peggy ???:
On January 1, 1781, The Springfield Village adopted resolution 3 exempting the Widdow McRoberts' land from War rates. In addition, resolution 2 set prices for beef (1 pound, 10 shillings per ewt), pork (3 pounds per ewt), flour (18 shillings per ewt), rye (4 shillings per bushel), and Indian corn (3 shillings per bushel). At the beginning of the meeting, Selectmen Samuel Scott and Nathaniel Weston notified and warned "the freeman and other inhabitants" of a subsequent meeting scheduled for January 12 at the house of Roger Bates in order to decide how they would determine how they would meet the requirements of the State, to "victual the men that shall be raised to guard our frontiers, for the year ensueing, and any other business the town shall think proper when met."