The Robinsons and their kin folk . AND DWELLING OF JOHN W. ROBINSON. Built about 1818, and occupied by the family until about i860. Steinway piano, a pair of woolen socks, a roast of meat ; opena bank account, have a tooth extracted or buy an ape. Henceit is not so wonderful that this inland place of barter andexchange—an hundred miles from any large center of population—managed, in some years, to transact business to an amountexceeding ten thousand dollars a year. At the commencement of the fourth year of this partnership,Mr. Robinson was married to Ann Butler (January 12th, 1808), SYNOPSIS O
The Robinsons and their kin folk . AND DWELLING OF JOHN W. ROBINSON. Built about 1818, and occupied by the family until about i860. Steinway piano, a pair of woolen socks, a roast of meat ; opena bank account, have a tooth extracted or buy an ape. Henceit is not so wonderful that this inland place of barter andexchange—an hundred miles from any large center of population—managed, in some years, to transact business to an amountexceeding ten thousand dollars a year. At the commencement of the fourth year of this partnership,Mr. Robinson was married to Ann Butler (January 12th, 1808), SYNOPSIS OF THE LIFE OF JOHN W. ROBINSON. 63 at her step-brothers (General Lord Butler) house, on Front, nowRiver Street, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., by the Rev. Ard Butler was the second daughter and third child of ColonelZebulon Butler and Phebe Haight, his third wife. If I here,very briefly, note the military career of Mrs. Robinsons father,you will condone the digression. Colonel Zebulon Butler took part in the campaigns of 1758 on. RESIDENCE OF WM. H. CONYNGHAM. Occupying the site of the old Robinson homestead. the frontiers of Canada, Fort Edward, Lake George, Tieonderogaand elsewhere. He was at Havana in 1762 during the long siege,and was nearly lost in shipwreck while going thence. When theto sin of war was signaled from the Heights of Lexington he didnot hesitate a moment to offer his services, which were accepted,and he was appointed Colonel in the Connecticut line, and so becamean active participant in the campaign of 1777-8-9, and, later, wascommissioned Colonel in the Second Connecticut Regiment. Hewas with Washington in New Jersey, and evidently highly es- SYNOPSIS 01 Tin I II I l iOllN W. KOlilNSON. teemed by him. He* was the Leader f that small but memorablebaud of settlers, who went into the contest against a superiornumber of the- British and Indians, in what history knows as theMassacre of Wyoming. The recollection of the barbarities then perpetrated by the savage
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