. The Robinsons and their kin folk . Ive^^- C3 IHOTO COPY OF DEED OF GEORGE- ROBINSON TO HIS BROTHER JOHN, DATED FEB. 13, I 718. ROBINSONS—EARLY EMIGRANTS TO AMERICA. 69 grandfather, who was a Httle under the regulation height, stood onhis tip-toes when measured, so fearful was he that he might berejected on that account. Thirty others who bore the name ofRobinson, all his near relatives, were in the service. Enoch Robinson his father, had a contract with the govern-ment for gun locks which he manufactured at Robinsonville,Attleboro Falls, Mass., where later on was manufactured pinchbeck jewel
. The Robinsons and their kin folk . Ive^^- C3 IHOTO COPY OF DEED OF GEORGE- ROBINSON TO HIS BROTHER JOHN, DATED FEB. 13, I 718. ROBINSONS—EARLY EMIGRANTS TO AMERICA. 69 grandfather, who was a Httle under the regulation height, stood onhis tip-toes when measured, so fearful was he that he might berejected on that account. Thirty others who bore the name ofRobinson, all his near relatives, were in the service. Enoch Robinson his father, had a contract with the govern-ment for gun locks which he manufactured at Robinsonville,Attleboro Falls, Mass., where later on was manufactured pinchbeck jewellery, which was an alloy of copper and zinc,resembling gold. Peddlers travelled on foot from the factoryinto Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York,selling their wares. Here was also established the first metal. IMPRINT OF STAG TRIPPANT ON DEED OF MARCH lO, I 725. button factory in the United States, by Obed and Otis Robinsonin 1812. What would these two pioneers in the business now saycould the}^ but visit the Attleboro jewellery establishments andinspect the goods now manufactured on the sight of their oldfactory ? It was from ni} effort to trace the ancestry of George of Rehoboth that I was led to investigate other lines ofRobinsons. The first Robinson in iVmerica whom I find a record of waswith Captain John Smith in Virginia. His Christian name isnot given. On the lotli of December, 1607, Capt. John Smithstarted up the Chickahominy River to trade with the Indians. 70 ROBINSONS—EARLY EMIGRANTS TO AMERICA. He left the camp at Jamestown in charge of a Mr. Robinson andEmer>\ On his return, a month later, January, 8, 1608, hefound that both Robinson and Kmery had been killed by theIndians. In 1620, Richard Robinson came from England at the ageof 22, in the ship Bonaventnre boun
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