8. Judge Robbins' History of Windsor

If you've passed through the charming village of Windsor, in Robbinsville Township, you'll note that not much has changed since Judge R.C. (Randall C.) Robbins wrote his 1901 "History of Windsor, N.J. and theMethodist Episcopal Church of Windsor, N.J." Allison Delarue, Princeton Class of '28, donated the pamphlet to the Firestone Library at Princeton University where he may have studied with Judge Robbins' grandson, Edmund Yard Robbins (b. 1867, Windsor, NJ.)

Edmund Yard Robbins

Alison Delarue, Princeton Class of '28, donated this pamphlet to Princeton's Firestone Library. Mr. Delarue may very well have studied under Edmund Robbins during his time at Princeton. Edmund had graduated from Princeton's class of 1889. Several years later he returned to the University after several years abroad studying "comparative philology" and Indo-Iranian linquistics in Germany. He was Princeton University's Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature until his retirement in the late 1930s.





Windsor's Methodist Church is still active today. Judge Robbins tells us that improvements to the Church in 1863 left the congregation seriously in debt until 1891 when the Ladies Aid Society proposed a Quilt-Making idea that raised enough money to pay off "all claims standing against the Church and parsonage"! (History of Windsor and...pg. 11)