The Robinsons and their kin folk . children, two sons and two daughters. These heads ofsmall families lived to be old men, eighty-one, seventy-seven,seventy-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 of the fathers and were farmers, 1«. THOMAS ROBINSON. and in the beginning of the nineteenth century were counted therich farmers of this farming town. They were from generationto generation members of the Cbnnecticut legislature. Thencame four children to divide the patrimony that for tw
The Robinsons and their kin folk . children, two sons and two daughters. These heads ofsmall families lived to be old men, eighty-one, seventy-seven,seventy-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 of the fathers and were farmers, 1«. THOMAS ROBINSON. and in the beginning of the nineteenth century were counted therich farmers of this farming town. They were from generationto generation members of the Cbnnecticut legislature. Thencame four children to divide the patrimony that for two genera-tions had been transmitted to one heir alone. Two daughtersmarry and carry off their dow ries ; Sarah married Isaac Benton,and their daughter Sarah, marrying Richard Starr of Guilford,removed to Mendoh, 111., leaving descendants. Eliza marriedCol. John B. Chittenden of Guilford, and removed about 1832 toMendon, 111., leaving numerous descendants. The two sons goto Yale College, one becomes a Congregational clergyman, the. OAKEN CHAIR. Rev. Henry Robinson, Yale College, 1811, Andover Seminary,1816, tutor at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., 1817 ; the other,Samuel Robinson, Yale College, 1817, a teacher. The farm landsare sold, but the homestead, the second house built on the spotpurchased in 1664, was inherited by the Rev. Henry Robinson andhis four children. The brother, Samuel Robinson, a distinguishedteacher, conducted a family school for boys in it. His son wasDr. Samuel C. Robinson, ot Brooklyn, N. Y., Yale College, 1852;his daughter is Mrs. Anna C. Hyde of New Haven. A curious oaken chair with tape loom in back is one of therelics in the old Robinson house in Guilford, and there are olddeeds reaching back to 1675. The Rev. Henry Robinson returned to the old homestead THOMAS ROBINSON. 37 after four pastorates in Connecticut, ie. Eitchfield, South Farms(now Morris), Suffield, North Killingly (now Putnam Heights)and Plainfield, spending the last twenty-two years of
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