. The Robinsons and their kin folk . briefly, note the military career of Mrs. Robinsons father,5ou will condone the digression. Colonel Zebulon Butler took part in the campaigns of 1758 on. RESIDENCE (»K WM. H. (ONYNCHAM. Occupying the site of the old Robinson homestead. the frontiers of Canada, Fort Edward, Lake George, Ticonderogaand elsewhere. He was at Havana in 1762 during the long siege,and was nearly lost in shipwreck while going thence. When theto sin of war was signaled from the Heights of Lexington he didnot hesitate a moment to offer his services, which were accepted,and he was app
. The Robinsons and their kin folk . briefly, note the military career of Mrs. Robinsons father,5ou will condone the digression. Colonel Zebulon Butler took part in the campaigns of 1758 on. RESIDENCE (»K WM. H. (ONYNCHAM. Occupying the site of the old Robinson homestead. the frontiers of Canada, Fort Edward, Lake George, Ticonderogaand elsewhere. He was at Havana in 1762 during the long siege,and was nearly lost in shipwreck while going thence. When theto sin of war was signaled from the Heights of Lexington he didnot hesitate a moment to offer his services, which were accepted,and he was appointed Colonel in the Connecticut line, and so becamean active participant in the campaign of 1777-8-9, and, later, wascommissioned Colonel in the Second Connecticut Regiment. Hewas with Washington in New Jersey, and evidently highly es- 64 SYNOPSIS OF THE LIFE OF lOHN W. ROBINSON. teemed by him. He was the leader of that small but memorableband of settlers, who went into the contest against a superiornumber of the British and Indians, in what history knows as the Massacre of Wyoming. The recollection of the barbaritiesthen perpetrated by the savages on the brave and sturdy broth- K
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