The Robinsons and their kin folk . Unfortunately he wastaken down with the small pox in the month of October of thesame year which culminated in his death on the 27th of themonth. He was buried in Eondon. While the decree of the King acted as a temporary stayupon the Governor of New York, it was not until the breaking ROBINSONS—EARLY EMIGRANTS TO AMERICA. 83 out of the Revolutionary war, when the lesser trouble was lostin the greater struggle for independence, that New York, for atime, ceased to claim further jurisdiction over this territory. In 1776 Vermont petitioned the Provincial Congress,
The Robinsons and their kin folk . Unfortunately he wastaken down with the small pox in the month of October of thesame year which culminated in his death on the 27th of themonth. He was buried in Eondon. While the decree of the King acted as a temporary stayupon the Governor of New York, it was not until the breaking ROBINSONS—EARLY EMIGRANTS TO AMERICA. 83 out of the Revolutionary war, when the lesser trouble was lostin the greater struggle for independence, that New York, for atime, ceased to claim further jurisdiction over this territory. In 1776 Vermont petitioned the Provincial Congress, then insession in Philadelphia, for admission into the Confederacy, butbeing opposed by New York they withdrew. In 1777 Vermontdeclared her independence, and in July 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. SARAH 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 Samuel3 Robinson branch of the Robinsons have beenvery prominent in the affairs of Vermont, 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 journeying over the country
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