. The Robinsons and their kin folk. l your antiques. Label everything. Let the grand-daughters of the future, when showing the things you have left,be able to tell their age and some of their history. It is especiallywise and considerate to write on the back of every photographat least the name of the person. If this custom of concentratingthe antiques and heirlooms became general, what an added in-terest for visitors all New England homes would present! Whata vast number of lost and forgotten treasures would be broughtto light! I expect a reprimand from your worthy secretary for writingso lit
. The Robinsons and their kin folk. l your antiques. Label everything. Let the grand-daughters of the future, when showing the things you have left,be able to tell their age and some of their history. It is especiallywise and considerate to write on the back of every photographat least the name of the person. If this custom of concentratingthe antiques and heirlooms became general, what an added in-terest for visitors all New England homes would present! Whata vast number of lost and forgotten treasures would be broughtto light! I expect a reprimand from your worthy secretary for writingso little about the famous William and his own progeny, but Ishall ask you to remember that I am living in the same housewith six descendants of William, while on the other hand mywife is living with six descendants of George. That is six ofone and half a dozen of the other. Now then, would it be discreet to choose for the subject ofmy paper the descendants of one rather than the descendants ofthe other? II. THE FATHERS. WHERE WERE THEY?. Mrs. Ann Augusta Lakin Bennington, N. H. HAVE often asked this question, but like an echo,it comes back to me, Where were they? The firstin my line of ancestry that I have any knowledgeof was Peter Robinson, yet it is but little that isknown of him. We know that he was twicemarried and by the first marriage had two sons,Simeon and Douglas. Who their mother was, orwhere they were living at this time, is unknownto any of the descendants. It is thought by somethat he was then living at Douglas, Mass., but there is no men-tion in the history of the town of any one by the name of Robin-son, still records show there were Robinsons living in Douglasand adjoining towns. That Peter was once living in Douglas is shown by therecord of the Marriage Intention of Peter Robinson andRebekah Perkins, May 18, 1752. No record of the marriagehas been found, neither do we know how long he remained thereor whither he went. That he afterwards lived in what is nowHudson, N
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