Edward Robbins

Who was Edward Robbins?

Edward Hutchinson Robbins served as the sixth Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1802 to 1806. In 1799 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the great-great-grandfather of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on the side of Roosevelt's mother, Sarah Delano:

Edward Robbins married Elizabeth Murray

…whose daughter, Anne Jean Robbins, married Joseph Lyman

…whose daughter, Catherine Robbins Lyman, married Warren Delano Jr.

…whose daughter, Sara Delano, married James Roosevelt

…whose son was Franklin Delano Roosevelt.