. The Robinsons and their kin folk . from Maine to California. We find a David and Jonathan Robinson as residents ofF^xeter, N. H., from 1657 to 1683. They, with Stephen and JohnRobinson, were probably the sons of John Robinson of Ipswich,who was one of the first settlers of Haverhill, Mass., and whoremoved to Exeter, N. H., in 1657, and was killed by the Indiansin 1675. He was also the ancestor of William Robinson whofounded the Robinson Female Seminary at Exeter, and the Sum-mervdlle Academy at Summerville, Ga., as also of the Robinsonsof Exeter, Brentwood, Epping, Raymond, Newmarket, Hampto
. The Robinsons and their kin folk . from Maine to California. We find a David and Jonathan Robinson as residents ofF^xeter, N. H., from 1657 to 1683. They, with Stephen and JohnRobinson, were probably the sons of John Robinson of Ipswich,who was one of the first settlers of Haverhill, Mass., and whoremoved to Exeter, N. H., in 1657, and was killed by the Indiansin 1675. He was also the ancestor of William Robinson whofounded the Robinson Female Seminary at Exeter, and the Sum-mervdlle Academy at Summerville, Ga., as also of the Robinsonsof Exeter, Brentwood, Epping, Raymond, Newmarket, Hamptonand adjoining New Hampshire towns. ROBINSONS—EARLY EMIGRANTS TO AMERICA. 77 Rowland Robinson, who was born in Long BlulT, Cumber-land, Eng., came to tliis country in 1662 and at first resided inNewport, R. I., afterwards at Narragansett. He married in1675, Mary, the daughter of John and Mary Allen of Barnstable,Eng. Mr. Robinson and his wife were Quakers and were theancestors of the Robinsons of Narragansett, Newport, R. I., and. ROWLAND E. ROBINSON. New Bedford, Mass. Mrs. Hetty (Robinson) Green, the richestwoman in America, is a descendant. She was the daughterof Edward Mott Robinson of New Bedford and New York, fromwhom she inherited the foundation of her fortune. Vermont claims as her son an illustrious descendant of Row-land Robinson, the emigrant, in the personage of Rowland , Vermonts celebrated blind author, artist and poet,born in Ferrisburg, Yt., May 14, 1833, a great-great-great-grand-son of the first Rowland. 78 ROBINSONS—EARLY EMIGRANTS TO AMERICA. Mr. Robinson is the youngest of four children and inheritedthe homestead which his great-grandfather, Thomas, located inthe Green Mountain vState, in 1791, then just admitted into theUnion. It fell to the lot of youthful Rowland to follow the plough,for a time, on his fathers farm. But with that inborn desire,inherited from his mother, Rachel Gilpin, the daughter of aNew York artist, for a visible display
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