This collection contains genealogies, family documents, and correspondence relating to the Robbins and Harvey families and related lines. Also included are incorporation papers, minutes, and correspondence of the Bethel Cemetery Association; typescript copies of the charters of Bethel Institute and Rickreal Academy, 1853-1856; and an account of John Hudson Robbins' overland journey to Oregon by W. A. Robbins, who was an attorney in Portland, Oregon, in the 1920s and 1930s, and assembled much of the material in the collection.