Robert Todd first married Ann Smith (1697-1724) in
1722.
Together they had two sons, John (1719-1793) and David
(1723-1785).
John married Margaret Thompson (1736-1809). He
became a famed
Presbyterian minister and an original member of the
Presbytery of
Hanover.
Robert married Isabella Bodley Hamilton about 1725.
They had 9
children. Robert and his brother
Andrew immigrated to
America in 1737. Isabella died in 1739, so it is
assumed that she
also immigrated to America with Robert.
"Discoveries of the Todd DNA Project... The 1905
published history
of the Mary Todd Lincoln Family summarized the origins of
the family as
contained in a letter written by a grandson of the Robert
Todd
1697-1775 which stated that two half-brothers Robert Todd
and Andrew
Todd came to New York and then Robert came to Pennsylvania
and Andrew
followed. Research confirmed Robert’s arrival in
Pennsylvania by 1755
and Andrew’s arrival in 1760. However, the account books
of the Janeway
Store in Bound Brook New Jersey plus later court records
showed there
were 5 Todd brothers: Robert, William, John, James and
Andrew,"
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcmurtriecfr/richard/todd/discoveriestodddna.htm
George Edwards states:
My great, great, great, great grandfather, Robert Todd
was born in
Ireland, in 1697; died in Montgomery county,
Pennsylvania, in 1775, and
was buried in the churchyard of the Providence
Presbyterian Church. His
first wife, whose name is supposed to have been Smith,
died and was
buried in Ireland. In Ireland he married, for a second
wife, Isabella,
sister of General William Bodley. The mother of Isabella
and General
Wm, Bodlev was a Parker, a name which belongs to many
families of note
fn Pennsylvania. Hy his first wife he had two sons, John
and Datid. By
the second wife he had five sons and four daughters,
William, Andrew,
Robert, Samuel, Levi, Elizabeth, Mary, Rebecca and
Sarah. David Todd,
my great, great, great grandfather, the second son of
Robert Todd, was
born in Ireland, April, 8th, 1723, and when a child, was
brought by his
father to Pennsylvania. His wife, whom he married in
Pennsylvania, was
Hannah Owen, of Welsh decent and a Quakeress. They had
four sons and
two daughters, John, Robert, Levi, Owen, Elizabeth and
Hannah.
31 March 1880: Ltr from John Todd, Warren Tavern, Chester co, PA to S.S. Todd
“My father David Todd”, “My father and grandfather died when I was only 5 years old.”
“My father died in 1814 and my grandfather in 1816”
“after that all communication with our Kentucky relatives ceased.”
“Robert and Andrew Todd settled near..Trappe..then Robert my grandfather moved to Great Valley
now called Chester Valley 12 miles south of Trappe, Chester Co.
…purchased two farms..about 400 acres..one of them I now own and live on.
[Edwards, George. Historical Sketches of the Edwards and Todd Families and their Descendants. 1894]
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