. The Robinsons and their kin folk . JDHN ROBINSON S WATCH. Hosea, from whom the watch passed to his brother George, andfrom him to his cousin, Mrs. Fox, and from her to FranklinRobinson as above outlined. The statement regarding the coatof arms, led the writer to take the watch to the rooms of theHistorical and Genealogical Society in Boston, to establish, ifpossible, if it was the Robinson Coat of Arms. No satisfactionwhatever was obtained from those in charge of the HeraldryDepartment. But from The Robinsons and their Kin Folkwe find confirmation of the statement. In gathering the data cont
. The Robinsons and their kin folk . JDHN ROBINSON S WATCH. Hosea, from whom the watch passed to his brother George, andfrom him to his cousin, Mrs. Fox, and from her to FranklinRobinson as above outlined. The statement regarding the coatof arms, led the writer to take the watch to the rooms of theHistorical and Genealogical Society in Boston, to establish, ifpossible, if it was the Robinson Coat of Arms. No satisfactionwhatever was obtained from those in charge of the HeraldryDepartment. But from The Robinsons and their Kin Folkwe find confirmation of the statement. In gathering the data contained in this paper, the writer isin-debted to Miss Mary E., a daughter of Albion K. P. Robinson,whose personal assistance was valuable in the researches were always most kindly received by interviewed. A SYNOPSIS OF THE LIFE OF JOHN OF WILKES-BARRE, PA. By George R. Wright, A LARGE proportion of all history is founded upontradition ; a larger proportion of biographical historyis constructed upon a similar foundation. The deeperwe delve in our efforts to illimine antiquity, the morefully we realize the truth of the assertion since tra-dition is mainly the result of memory. Nor are wesurprised to find the latter so vulnerable and unreli-able as to engender doubt in the minds of disinter-ested readers. Famih pride, malice, forgetfulness,are apt, unconsciously, to tincture the recollections of conscien-tious tongues with the individuality of the narrator; and whenwe are unacquainted with an authors personality we are at aloss to discriminate between fact and tradition. Hence, realizingthe justification for the presence of doubt as to all that may beasserted in a paper of this nature being true, I have earnestlyendeavored to eliminate every expression or statement relatingto the life and character of my subject that is not founded uponwritten evidence contemp
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