Robert followed his uncle Nicholas to New Haven, and settled in East Haven. At a town meeting in New Haven 7 Feb 1668, Rev. John Davenport came into the meetings and spoke concerning the establishment of a Grammar or Collegiate School as designed by the bequest of Mr. Hopkins. He wished to know whether the people desired to send their sons to such a school, and asked those present to express themselves. Upon which Robert Alling declared his purpose to bring up one of his sons to learning; also Thomas Trowbridge, David Atwater and others. Mr. Augur (Nicholas) said he intended to send for a kinsman from England" (New Haven Colonial Records).
Reverend Stephen Dodd, in his East Haven Register mentions Robert, and gives facts concerning his marriage, and the names and dates of birth of his children. Robert Augur was admitted a free inhabitant in 1674. He may have been a clerk in his Uncle Nicholas' mercantile business that Nicholas carried on in addition to his medical practice. After his uncle's death he may have continued that business for his Aunt Esther or for himself, but of his occupation in life we have no certain knowledge. His name does not appear in a list of the original planters of East Haven in 1702; yet a New Haven Colonial records list of those who had allotments on the east side (East Haven) includes the name of Rober Augur; number of persons in his family, five; amount on which he paid taxes, [sterling]8; number of acres to which he was entitled, twenty-one. He may have lived on this land, but that is quite doubtful. The number of persons in his family is given as five, but from the record of births we can make only four. There may have been another child not mentioned in the records, possibly a first Mary who died young. Savage (Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England) mentions "Mary again, 1683, died soon" implying that earlier Robert may have had a daughter Mary. We have found no records which give either Mary.
The house and land in New Haven where he probably lived in 1680 was than held in the name of Mathew Guilbert which accounts for the small amount on which he paid taxs. Reverend Daniel W Havens in his Manuscript History of East Haven, supplementary to Dodd's East Haven Register, assumes that he removed to East Haven, and states that there is no record of the death of either Robert or his wife Mary. But later he gives the date of death of Mary, widow of Robert, 19 Feb 1731, about four years after the death of her son John.