. The Robinsons and their kin folk . , butbeing opposed by New York they withdrew. In 1777 Vermontdeclared her independence, and in Jnly of the same year, againapplied for admission into the Confederacy, but was againrefused. Four years later. Congress offered to receive her witha considerable curtailment of her boundaries, but this her indig-nant people refused. In 1790 New York had evidently grown. MRS. SAKAH ROBINSON COLLECTING GENEALOGICAL RECORDS. tired of the contention and offered to relinquish, for the sum of$30,000, all claims to territory or jurisdiction in the State. Tothis Vermont
. The Robinsons and their kin folk . , butbeing opposed by New York they withdrew. In 1777 Vermontdeclared her independence, and in Jnly of the same year, againapplied for admission into the Confederacy, but was againrefused. Four years later. Congress offered to receive her witha considerable curtailment of her boundaries, but this her indig-nant people refused. In 1790 New York had evidently grown. MRS. SAKAH ROBINSON COLLECTING GENEALOGICAL RECORDS. tired of the contention and offered to relinquish, for the sum of$30,000, all claims to territory or jurisdiction in the State. Tothis Vermont acceded, and this is the price she paid to be ad-mitted into the Union on March 4, 1791, after fourteen years ofindependence. This Samuel^ Robinson branch of the Robinsons have beenvery prominent in the affairs of \ermont, two of his descendantshaving been governors of the State. Mrs. Sarah (Harwood) Robinson, daughter of Peter andMargaret Harwood, of Bennington, born Oct. 3, 1775, and wifeof Samuel Robinson of Bennington, who was born Jan. 5, 1774,a great-grandson of the first Samuel, compiled a small bookwhich was published in 1837, entitled a Genealogical Historyof the Families of Robinsons, Saffords, Harwoods and Clarks. 84 ROBINSONS—EARLY EMIGRANTS TO AMERICA. Her information was collected under difficulties and obtainedin journeyino; over the country on liorse-back. She made anerror a
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