. The Robinsons and their kin folk . ut Building. Robert Dale Owen married Mary Jane Robinson, 7th gene-ration ; the artist Wedworth Wadsworths mother. Rose Robin-son, was 6th generation ; Colonel Francis Parsons of Hartford,on Governor Lounsburys staff, is of the 9th generation fromThomas Robinson. THOMAS ROBINSON. 35 The second Thomas Robinson was the oldest of seven chil-dren. He married twice and had eight children. The twodaughters of his first wife, vSarah Cruttenden, died unmarried;his second wife was Sarah Graves, their oldest son Samuel Rob-inson, married Rachel Strong of Northampton,
. The Robinsons and their kin folk . ut Building. Robert Dale Owen married Mary Jane Robinson, 7th gene-ration ; the artist Wedworth Wadsworths mother. Rose Robin-son, was 6th generation ; Colonel Francis Parsons of Hartford,on Governor Lounsburys staff, is of the 9th generation fromThomas Robinson. THOMAS ROBINSON. 35 The second Thomas Robinson was the oldest of seven chil-dren. He married twice and had eight children. The twodaughters of his first wife, vSarah Cruttenden, died unmarried;his second wife was Sarah Graves, their oldest son Samuel Rob-inson, married Rachel Strong of Northampton, Mass. She diedin one year and left one child, Samuel. vSajs the Rev. Henr\-Robinson: Despairing of finding her like again this SamuelRobinson remained unmarried to the day of his death, fifty-oneyears. He was shrewd, sensible and pious, and an exceedinglycompanionable and interesting man. He had no taste for publicoffice, but was fond of books and self-culture. He was a greatadmirer of President Edwards and read his works much. His. i^ARVKD OAKEN CHFST , lOS:!. only child, Sanuiel Robinson, 2nd, was brought up by his maidensister, Sarah, who lived to be sixty-two. My father, the Robinson, rememl)ered this Samuel, 2nd, who died in1802, when he was a boy of fourteen. My grandfather, SamuelRobinson, 3rd, was a lad of fourteen when his grandfather,Samuel the ist, died in 1776, and Samuel Robinson ist, years old when his father the second Thomas Robinsondied in 1712, and the second Thomas Robinson was thirty-ninewhen Thomas Rol)inson, Sr., died in i68g. jLjLo^009 Samuel Robinson, ist, had but one child, a son; SamuelRobinson, 2nd, had but one child, a son; vSamuel Robinson, 3rd,had four children, two sons and two daughters. These heads ofsmall families lived to be old men, eighty-one, seventy-seven,.sevent}-seven, and my father, eighty-nine years and nine married early in life, twenty-nine, thirty-five, twenty-four;the sons carried on the calling
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