. The Robinsons and their kin folk. h of whichhad one, or more whose given name wasJohn; but the first to come to this locality wasJohn Robinson of Kittery. From the pages of church and state the few scatteredthreads that have been collected may serve some searcher in thefuture, to weave a web of interesting history, that will includethe great number of isolated Robinsons, who are not yet in theirproper places. The union of the two pioneer families was con-summated December io, 1722, by the marriage in Kittery ofJohn Robinson with Sarah, daughter of Samuel and grand-daughter of Rev. Robert Jor
. The Robinsons and their kin folk. h of whichhad one, or more whose given name wasJohn; but the first to come to this locality wasJohn Robinson of Kittery. From the pages of church and state the few scatteredthreads that have been collected may serve some searcher in thefuture, to weave a web of interesting history, that will includethe great number of isolated Robinsons, who are not yet in theirproper places. The union of the two pioneer families was con-summated December io, 1722, by the marriage in Kittery ofJohn Robinson with Sarah, daughter of Samuel and grand-daughter of Rev. Robert Jordan, whose romantic life is so viv-idly portrayed in the Trelawney Papers. At Roberts death, all his landed possessions were dividedbetween his widow and six sons, each of whom received onethousand acres, except Samuel. His share was eleven hundred,to compensate for the poverty of the soil as compared with theothers. Samuel left Cape Elizabeth 1675 and settled in Kittery,dying there 1720, and his inheritance from his father at Pond. 8o THE ROBINSONS AND THEIR KIN FOLK Cove, Cape Elizabeth, was in turn divided between his widowand three children, the youngest of whom was Sarah. And so, when this newly wedded couple started out on lifesjourney as man and wife, it was to take possession of her prop-erty at Pond Cove. This cove is on the easterly shore of Cape Elizabeth, aboutfive miles from the city of Portland—then known as Falmouth—and near the southern extremity of the cape; deriving its namefrom its proximity to Great Pond, which is some distance inlandfrom the sea, and its waters flowing out in a creek near by. Their neighbors in this unsettled country were kinfolk andold acquaintances, Noah Jordan, a nephew of Sarahs; NathanielJordan of Falmouth; John Miller from Kittery; Paul Thompson,and not a great distance away Daniel Robinson, who in 1724married Abigail Jordan (a cousin) in Kittery; an obligation re-quiring all landholders to stand by each other in peace orin war. T
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