. The Robinsons and their kin folk . ^ were counted therich farmers of this farming town. They were from generationto generation members of the Connecticut legislature. Thencame four children to divide the patrimony that for two genera-tions had been transmitted to one heir alone. Two daughtersmarry and carry off their dowries ; Sarah married Isaac Benton,and their daughter vSarah, marrying Richard vStarr of Guilford,removed to Mendon, 111., leaving descendants. Eliza marriedCol. John B. Chittenden of Guilfcjrd, and removed about 1S32 toMendon, 111., lea\ing numerous descendants. The two .sons
. The Robinsons and their kin folk . ^ were counted therich farmers of this farming town. They were from generationto generation members of the Connecticut legislature. Thencame four children to divide the patrimony that for two genera-tions had been transmitted to one heir alone. Two daughtersmarry and carry off their dowries ; Sarah married Isaac Benton,and their daughter vSarah, marrying Richard vStarr of Guilford,removed to Mendon, 111., leaving descendants. Eliza marriedCol. John B. Chittenden of Guilfcjrd, and removed about 1S32 toMendon, 111., lea\ing numerous descendants. The two .sons goto Yale College, one becomes a Congregational clergyman, the. OAKEN CHAIR. Rev. Henry Robinson, Yale College, 1811, Andover vSeminary,1S16, tutor at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., 1817 ; the other,Samuel Robinson, Yale College, 1817, a teacher. The farm landsare .sold, but the homestead, the second house built on the spotpurchased in 1664, was inherited by the Rev. Henry andhis four children. The brother, vSamuel Robinson, a distinguishedteacher, conducted a family school for boys in it. His .son wasDr. Samuel C. , ot Brooklyn, N. Y., Yale College, 1852;his daughter is Mrs. Anna C. Hyde of New Haven. A curious oaken chair with tape loom in back is one of therelics in the old Robinson house in Guilford, and there are olddeeds reaching back to 1675. The Rev. Henry Robinson returned to the old homestead THOMAS ROBINSON. J] after four pastorates in Connecticut, ic. lyitclifield, South Farms(now Morris), vSufQeld, North KilHngly (now Putnam Heights)and Plainfield, spending the last twenty-two years of his Hfe anddying there at th
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