Sunday, April 18, 2021
The Indian Raid on Royalton, Windsor, Vermont With Bigger Implications From British Rule-and Our Ancestors, the Rix and Durkee Families
Nadene Goldfoot
I had read about the burning of Royalton from the Durkee family newsletter from the Spring of 1993 of which Bernice B. Gunderson was the editor and family researcher for the President, Robin K. Durkee. It was exciting to find we also had Durkee lines running through our veins with all that DNA, so its history was even more impressive. Now I'm finding reference to this in another form. https://www.ourherald.com/articles/royalton-raid-revisited. The burning of this town was most distressful as they were the very 1st settlers of the town that was started in 1779. There was the settlement before being chartered and the town was thriving. They had large stocks of cattle. They were attacked on October 16, 1780.
My interest today lies in the fact that Abiathar and Julia Ann, married in 1852 in Tunbridge, Orange, Vermont which is next door to Royalton, Windsor, Vermont, moved to Canada and were there for I don't now how long until after the Civil War when I found them in Wenona, Marshall, Illinois. My question was why would anyone move there?
Canada was luring loyalists to Canada with the promise of free land. They evidently had reason to think they could apply and get land. I have no solid proof of who Abiathar's parents were or who they were connected with. I've been making a lot of educated guesses because Vermont, in fact all of New England was bursting with Robinsons, the 16th most popular surname eventually in the USA.
The well-known heroine of the day is a young mother, Hannah Handy or Hendee, who has escaped capture but who crosses the White River to confront Lt. Houghton, to demand the return of her son. Hendee’s spunk earns her the admiration of the Mohawks, who eventually agree to hand over her son and several other children.
The Indians killed Pember and Button and took as prisoners, Joseph Kneeland, Havens, Mesers, Simeon Belknap, Giles Gibbs and Jonathan Brown with Joeph Kneeland and his aged father, Elias Curtis, John Kent and Peter Mason. They plundered every house they found. They came upon General Elias Stevens working with his oxen. He rode home halfway and saw Captain Joseph Parkhurst who told him that the Indians were by river already, so they both rode down river. when they came to the home of Deacon Daniel Rix where they rescued his wife and 3 of their children with the Deacon. Again Stevens ran into Indians and veered, coming to his father in law's home, tilly Parkhurst. General Stevens tried to get people into the woods, out of sight of the Indians. Many, driven by fear, wound up in Sharon, Vermont and at Captain E. Parkhurst's home. (I have Pember on our tree.)
The Indians had gone to the home of Deacon Daniel Rix. They took Gardner Rix, his son, a boy about 14 years old which his mother witnessed. They left another house and went up the river as far as Mr. Timothy Durkee's home where they took 2 of his boys prisoners; Adan and Andrew, and carried the former to Canada, who died there in prison. Adan Durkee died in camp at Montreal. The family of Timothy Durkee suffered through the burning of Royalton. Only the eldest son, Heman, remained in Royalton after this attack. Several had moved to New York, with the grandchildren spreading out to Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Texas, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Odelltown, Canada, and Iowa.
Meanwhile, a militia of some 300 armed settlers has been mustered and comes upon Lt. Houghton and his party at about 2 a.m. For Zadock Steele and other captives, these trials are only the beginning of two years of hardship. Held first at an Indian village in Canada, Steele and others are eventually sold to the British. For most of the next two years, he is held in a maximum-security prison on an island in the middle of the St. Lawrence River, under conditions of extreme privation.
In August of 1782, Steele and several other prisoners stage a daring escape, which involves digging a 20-foot tunnel, and then swimming through the dangerous rapids surrounding the island. The escapees have no way of knowing the Revolutionary War is over, and all prisoners are about to be released.
Abiathar and Julia Ann named their 1st son, born in November 1852, Edward RIX Robinson. I guess they knew about the Indian raid, alright. Deacon Daniel Rix is my 5th great grandfather from Julia's side. We have a whole slew of Rix ancestors. Julia Ann Tuller's mother was Asenith Durkee, born 1814 Timothy Durkee, born May 18, 1776 was Asenith's 2nd cousin twice removed.
The Rix Family came from Connecticut before the Royalton Raid
Goodbye to Grandparents
Garner was born on July 31, 1767 in Preston, New London, Connecticut. Garner Rix grew up on the farm near his grandparents, aunts, uncles and lots of cousins. He was the oldest son of Daniel and Rebecca (Johnson) Rix. When Garner was about 12 years old his family packed up their things and moved up the Connecticut River to their new home in Royalton, Vermont. That year his older sister, Susanna, was 14. She probably was a great help to their mother in caring for the younger children: Joseph 9, Rebecca 7, Daniel 4, and Little Elisha just 2 years old. In this, the spring of 1779, their mother, Rebecca, 37, was pregnant with Jerusha.
Garner Rix was 13 years old at the time of the Royalton Raid. He was captured by the Indians in the last raid of the American Revolution. He was taken to Montreal, sold to a French Woman who kept him safe for a year until it was safe for him to walk home, by himself at age 14. When he got back home the town gave him the land that I live on. Garner Rix was my great, great, great, great-grandfather...(This is from the author I just found,
This is the 2nd article I've written about the burning of Royalton. Read my article from below's address.
Resource:
Everyday Life in Early America
by David Freeman Hawke https://wizzley.com/garner-rix-and-the-royalton-raid-1780/
http://wwwrobinsongenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/05/two-soldiers-saved-our-family-in.html
https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/rix/about/background
https://www.oregongenealogy.com/baker/durkee/durkee_family.htm
https://www.brpedersen.com/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I29332&tree=Ancestors
Labels: Asenath Durkee, Canadian land, Clark Walcott Durkee, Durkee, Loyalists, Lt. Houghton, Mohawk Indians, Orange, Pember, Revolutionaries, Rix, Robinson, Royalton, Tuller, Tunbridge, Vermont, Windsor
Saturday, April 17, 2021
Abiathar: Leads in Genealogy to First Names: leading to our Great Grandfather, Abiathar
Nadene Goldfoot
I notice that fathers like to leave a junior, so there is always a boy named after the father, or possibly even someone in the family. Abiathar is an unusual name. There are 2 others in history. I wonder if they might be related, such as a name carried on in the family. Why else? They just like it? It starts with A?
1. One of the Abiathars was married to Lucretia Strange in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts on April 4, 1838. This was after my Abiathar was born which was on December 7, 1829.
My grandfather, Frank Hugh Robinson's history, was that his ancestors came over not on the Mayflower of 1620, but the ship after that-which must have been in the 1630 fleet of ships, perhaps with Isaac Robinson, son of John Robinson, who sent the famous Pilgrims from Holland to America. John stayed in Holland with his flock. I don't think we are of this line as our Y haplogroup is a rare one, going back to the Irish-from the Irish Wales wars and settling English into Ireland or vice versa. Frank's father, of course, is Abiathar Smith Robinson. I figure his mother had to be a Smith. That's how a lot of people named their children, especially in those days, with reason. Many did care back then to recognize the family line of both parents. Frank's grandson took the DNA test which in the Big Y at FTDNA turned out to be R-FT111213. (It had started off back in less testing as R1b1a2a1a1b4., later upgraded as R-L21.
I found an Abiathar Robinson on the 1840 census of Taunton, Mass. who was 40-50 years old with a son 5 to 10 and a son 10-15 and 2 females 30 to 40 years old and a daughter under 5.
(As an aside that led to an Abiathar Robinson, a notice came up along the search of an Increase Robinson and Mehitable Williams. They were from Taunton. Ah ha! By using ancestry.com, I typed in their names and they had married on February 11, 1694 in Taunton, Bristol, MA. Increase was born in 1610 in Dorchester, Suffolk, MA and died in 1738. A child left was Increase Robinson.
Increase Robinson was born March 14, 1642 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Mass and died in 1699 in Bristol. The child left was Increase Robinson. Well, I'm proving my theory-happening with Increase. What happened to Abiathar? I was hoping that Abiathar would appear. More Children: Increase Robinson Jr, Ebenezer Robinson, Josiah Robinson, Sarah Robinson Dean, Bethia Robinson Pitts, Hannah Robinson Williams, and Abigail Robinson Forbes)
(Maybe an Abiathar came from these lines which I found in findagrave.com. The reason I'm suspicious that they may be ancestors in that they are from a port in Massachusetts that goes along with our oral history of coming over in in the fleet of 1630 and finding an Abiathar Robinson ancestor from Bristol, Mass. All I ever find is our Abiathar, and that is very rare.
I know his birthdate but have no paper evidence as to where he was born other than either Vermont or New York. He was on the 1850 census of Marshall, Illinois as A. Robinson. (There were many Robinsons in Wenona). Then he was on the 1870 census of Wenona living by his wife's brothers, the Tullers, specifically, Albert Tuller. Abiathar was on the 1880 census in Wenona and also the 1900 census of Wenona at age 70 now married a 2nd time as Julia Ann Tuller had died, and had married to Mary Jane Deffenbaugh Walters, possibly a widow next door. During the Civil War, Abiathar and Julia had gone to Canada for grant land, but returned after the war with a few more children born there.
2. The other Abiathar Robinson was married to Nancy Fisher on November 20, 1832. Again, this is after my Abiathar was born. At the best, both Abiathars could be from the same family line, sons of brothers who were all naming sons after some father or grandfather, etc. This Abiathar and Nancy married in Foxborough, Norfolk, Massachusetts, the right place.
This Abiathar was born in 1789 in Foxborough and died on May 2, 1853 in Massachusetts. If he had died in New York or Vermont, that would have been a clincher, but not Mass. It has not been mentioned. My Abiathar would have been 23 years old when the Foxborough Abiathar had died. Could it be possible that after that happened my Abiathar had moved to Vermont ? Well, I guess that could have logically happened.
3. During this period of 1776 in Massachusetts, the American Revolution, I found an Abiathar Robinson as a private serving in Cowells company of Militia in our military, Portus Regiment on February 26, 1776, and in the column with him was also a Stephen Smith. The surnames are about as common as they most common surname. I would not know which Abiathar this leads to.
4. I have another Abiathar. He is on a different Robinson line going back to a Thomas in Surrey, England
in the 1500s.
1 [1] Abiather Robinson b: August 08, 1750 in Granville, Hampden County, Massachusetts d: Bef. 1850 Age at death: 100 est.
. +Sybil
*2nd Wife of [1] Abiather Robinson:
. +Buelah Parsons b: February 01, 1753 in Enfield, Connecticut d: Bef. 1853 m: Abt. 1773 Age at death: 100 est. m: Abt. 1773
.... 2 Nancy Robinson b: April 19, 1774 in West Springfield, /Gransville, Hampden, Massachusetts
........ +Ephraim Coe b: Abt. 1774 in Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts
.... 2 Lovisa Robinson b: December 20, 1775 in West Springfield, Massachusetts d: May 23, 1839 in Grafton, New York Age at death: 63
........ +John Worthington b: November 03, 1775 in Agawan, Massachusetts d: June 19, 1850 in Petersburgh, Albany, New York m: December 11, 1796 in Springfield, Massachusetts Age at death: 74 m: December 11, 1796 in Springfield, Massachusetts
.... 2 [2] Erastus Robinson, MD b: April 12, 1774 in Tolland, Connecticut/ Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts d: September 10, 1854 in Northbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts Age at death: 80
........ +Sally Bunnel Burnwell b: Abt. 1778 in Blandford, Hampden, Massachusetts m: Abt. 1798 m: Abt. 1798
.... *2nd Wife of [2] Erastus Robinson, MD:
........ +Martha Channing b: March 16, 1780 in South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island d: March 01, 1844 in Northbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts m: April 23, 1809 in Brooklyn, Windham, Connecticut Age at death: 63 m: April 23, 1809 in Brooklyn, Windham, Connecticut
.... *3rd Wife of [2] Erastus Robinson, MD:
........ +Cloe Stone b: 1801 in Rhode Island m: February 13, 1845 in Northbridge, Worcester, Massachuetts m: February 13, 1845 in Northbridge, Worcester, Massachuetts
.... 2 Sarah Robinson b: Abt. 1779 in Gransville, Hampden, Massachusetts d: in prob. Genesee, New York
........ +Curtis b: Abt. 1779 d: in Genesee, New York
.... 2 Ablah "Abiah" Robinson b: Abt. 1781 in Gransville, Hampden, Massachusetts d: May 24, 1824 in Rowe, Franklin, Massachusetts Age at death: 43 est.
........ +Jonathan Marsh b: September 09, 1762 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts d: in Rowe, Franklin, Massachusetts
Abiathar and Nancy Fisher of Seth and Rachel, Foxborough
So far I have an Abiathar Robinson and Nancy Fisher married in 1832 in Foxborough, MA and died at age 64 on May 2, 1853, reason unknown. He was born in 1789. His father was Seth Robinson and mother was Rachel.
Today, I found this: The notice went to NJ. What a surprise.
| Name: | Abiathar Robinson |
|---|---|
| Death Date: | Abt 1853 |
| Death Place: | United States |
| Publication Title: | The Belvidere Apollo |
| Publication Date: | 26 May 1853 |
| Publication Place: | Belvidere, Warren, New Jersey, United States |
Because of this find of Seth and Rachel, I have switched back to my Abiathar's father being Jacob H. Robinson of Bakersfield, Vermont instead of the Royalton, Windsor, Vermont Amos IV Robinson. Jacob's line leads to Seth and Rachel, already found on my tree years ago when I investigated the 2 Abiathars. I had not found the private in the Revolutionary Army, however. ( I guess finding a DNA match with Hyde-on Julia Ann's side of the family is expected, having nothing to do with Robinson.)
I had not added to my Seth and Rachel from Abiathar's information being just an Abiathar Robinson. My ggrandfather is listed as Abiathar Smith Robinson, and from that setup, I got to the end of the line of my genealogy with Jacob H Robinson somewhere in there but beyond view, of course.
Nancy Fisher shows up on the 1850 census of Roxbury, Norfolk, Massachusetts. born in 1810 at age 40, but this is a married surname , husband is 10 years older than she, a oilman merchant, Walter Fisher.
Abiathar and Lucretia Strange, Taunton
Abiathar Robinson and Lucretia Strange in 1838 in Taunton, MA.
Abiathar Robinson, private in Revolutionary War of 1776. This man could be the ancestor of both.
Here, I must have been comparing, as of course there were 2 Abiathars.
Who Abiathars Married:
ABIATHAR2 ROBINSON (SETH1) was born 1794 in Foxborough, Norfolk, Massachusetts, and died May 02, 1853 in Foxborough, Norfolk, Massachusetts.
He married (1) HANNAH UNKNOWN Abt. 1803. She was born Abt. 1788 in Foxborough, Norfolk, Massachusetts.
He married (2) NANCY FISHER November 20, 1832 in Attleborough , Foxboro, Norfolk,Massachusetts. She was born Abt. 1799 in prob Foxborough, Norfolk, Massachusetts.
He married (3) LUCRETIA H. STRANGE July 20, 1837 in Foxborough, Massachusetts, daughter of WILLIAM STRANGE and CIVIL TRACY. She was born November 14, 1800 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, and died Bef. 1850 in prob. Foxborough, Norfolk, Massachusetts.
He married (4) LAURA ANN SMITH January 22, 1852 in Foxborough, Norfolk, Massachusetts, daughter of WILLIAM SEARS and SALLY SEARS. She was born Abt. 1790 in Bangor, Maine, and died in prob. Foxborough, Norfolk, Massachusetts.
8/24/19 I found on Foxborough 1850 census of 16 August
Abiathar 56 b Mass with Adeline Robinson 11 b: 1839 mass and a Charlotte
Ratiford 30 b: CT. birthday doesn't fit
my 3 Abiathars.
9/1/19 Name: Abiathar
Robinson
Event Type: Death
Birth Date: abt 1839
Death Date: 2 May 1853
Death Place: Foxborough, Massachusetts
Death Age: 14
Father Name: Seth Robinson
Mother Name: Rachel Robinson
Many Robinsons have come from Bennington, and Abiathar could have been born there, too, as it's close to Royalton, where there are also many Robinsons. In fact, New England is smothered with Robinsons ! It's really been feeling like finding a needle in a haystack, and you don't even know which haystack to start with.
History is extensive about Royalton; http://royaltonvt.com/about-royalton/town-history/ Royalton was originally chartered (also known as patented) on November 23, 1769, by King George III through the Royal Lieutenant Governor of New York. The town was re-chartered by the Independent Republic of Vermont on December 20, 1781. Vermont did not become a part of the United States until March 4, 1791. Abiathar was born Dec. 1829, only 38 years later.
Royalton, Windsor, Vermont is where Julia Ann Tuller lived, and became Abiathar's wife, and Bakersfield, Franklin, Vermont is where Jacob H Robinson lived and seemed to connect to my 2 DNA cousins. One is a little further away than the other to me. Abiathar had to travel quite a distance to meet up with Julia Ann Tuller of about 157 miles. Why did he travel that distance?
The town history of Bakersville began when Joseph Baker of Westborough, Massachusetts, the namesake for the village, bought 10,000 acres in 1791. Initial settlers were his son-in-law, Stephen Maynard, and his nephew Jonas Brigham, along with their families. Baker built grist and saw mills on Baker's Pond in 1794. Two years later Maynard built a tavern. In 1797, a school was established in a log cabin at the Post Road and Vermont 108. I have added 54 Brighams to my tree at various times. They all are either the wife or the husband of our Robinson ancestor. I have 5 Maynards with a male marrying a Brigham girl.
In finding it hard to let go of Royalton, Windsor, VT or even Tunbridge, Orange, VT where they married, Abiathar and Julia Ann married in 1852 in Tunbridge, Orange, Vermont, not far away from the 1850 census where I found Julia and her family. On the 1850 census of Royalton was also a 66 year old Timothy Robinson who had a son, Jonathan 25. I figure that Abiathar was 21 in 1850, closer to Julia's age of 15. Timothy had a 16 year old daughter. Did she go to school with Julia Ann Tuller? Did they visit each other? Timothy's wife, Olivia, was 56.
I go back to My Abiathar's supposed father
Jacob H Robinson b: 1790 Bakersfield, Franklin, Vermont, matching 2 2nd cousin DNA matches
John 1769 Tolland, Connecticut also connecting with a 2nd cousin DNA match
George, Reverend, 1726 Attleboro, Bristol Co, Massachusetts
Nathaniel 1691/2 Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts
George 1655 Rehoboth, Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts
George 1626 /Burton Northamptonshire, England
Francis 1595 Braybrooke, Northamptonshire, England
William 1578 Sturton leSteeple, Nottinghamshire, England
John 1549/50 Romaldkirk, Yorkshire, England
Christopher 1520 England
The question is, Why didn't Abiathar Smith Robinson, our ggrandfather, name one of his children, Abiathar ?
Abiathar is a biblical name. He was the son of Abimelech, chief priest at Nob who was actually the Philistine King of Gerar who had taken Sarah away from Abraham. Evidently he wanted Sarah for his harem. Nob was a priestly city, probably situated near Jerusalem on Mt. Scopus. After the destruction of the tabernacle at Shiloh, the priests of the sons of Eli had built a high-place in Nob where they officiated. As a punishment for the assistance given to the fugitive, David, Saul slew all the priests of the place.
Abraham had a pact of friendship with Abimelech as told in Genesis 20; 21:22.
He escaped the massacre of his family by King Saul and took refuge with David who later appointed him as high priest. Abiathar remained loyal to King David during Absalom's rebellion. Abiathar supported Adonijah's claims to the succession, as against those of Solomon who subsequently banished him from Jerusalem and transferred his priestly rights to Zadok, then high priest. Zadok was a descendant of Aaron. This is found in Samuel 22: 19-23; I Kings 2.) The priests, or Cohens, were the direct ancestors of Aaron, brother of Moses of the tribe of Levi. These ancestors were named as the priests who would be later bearing the DNA of J1, called the Cohen gene.
After King Saul's death, Zadok went to King David at Hebron and together, with Abiathar,, were David's chief priests. They both remained loyal to David. and on David's command, Zadok annointed King Solomon, his son. Solomon appointed Zadok's son a high priest in the Temple and from that time on the high priesthood remained in the Zadokite family until the period of the Hasmonean rising.
Resource:
FTDNA (Family Tree DNA)
ancestry.com genealogy
Labels: Abiathar Robinson, Bristol, Foxboro, MA, Ma., Norfolk, Taunton
Monday, April 12, 2021
Bakersfield, Franklin, Vermont and Upper Canada with Jacob H. Robinson b: 1790 Most Probable GGGrandfather
Nadene Goldfoot
Our most likely gggrandfather, is Jacob H. Robinson of Bakersfield, Franklin, Vermont. He's got to be the best candidate for father of our ggrandfather, Abiathar Smith Robinson , This is because of DNA tests of 2 matches who are DNA matches of mine, both being my 2nd-4th cousins. They are female twins. They are 3rd cousins of mine, the closest Robinson connected people so far. Their surnames are not Robinson, which is why it was a hard decision. Their mother was a Robinson, however, like my mother was a Robinson.
Bakersfield, Vermont is a most likely place for the Robinson line.
Both match me on chromosome #1, the largest of all 23 chromosomes. We match from 33818653 - 63920538 points. One match is from 34608200 - 58688544, a slightly shorter segment than the first one. My Robinson cousin who tested also matches on #1 from 34067461 - 47175419.
Chromosome 1 is the largest human chromosome, spanning about 249 million DNA building blocks (base pairs) and representing approximately 8 percent of the total DNA in cells. ... Chromosome 1 likely contains 2,000 to 2,100 genes that provide instructions for making proteins. There are 890 known diseases related to this chromosome. Some of these diseases are hearing loss, Alzheimer's disease, glaucoma and breast cancer. Rearrangements and mutations of chromosome 1 are prevalent in cancer and many other diseases. Patterns of sequence variation reveal signals of recent selection in specific genes that may contribute to human fitness, and also in regions where no function is evident.
One matches me on chromosome #7 from 34608200 - 58688544, a total of 48 cMs. That is one long segment.
One matches me on the X chromosome with 5.27cMs, meaning that there is a female match for both of us.
Abiathar is not on their tree with any paper evidence. I'm assuming that Jacob H Robinson is his father due to the fact that the DNA matches also have him listed on their tree. He works out for all of us.
Jacob H was born in 1790 to John Robinson and Mary Abbe in Bakersfield, Vermont. We all are on Jacob H. Robinson's line though they do not have the surname of Robinson. Only my 1st cousin does who tested, who is a male and carries this surname. Jacob had 2 wives. I believe it possible that Abiathar was born by the 1st wife and was the 1st son born to him when Jacob was already 38 years old.
Jacob was father of Abiathar, Jacob, Andrew, Oliver, Mary Jane, Sophronia, David and Lavina, 8 children of which 5 were males and 3 were females.
It's 91 miles from Bakersfield, Frankliin, VT to Royalton, a matter of 1 hour and 45 minutes by auto.
He married Julia Ann Tuller of Royalton in 1852 when he was 23 and Julia was 18. They had 10 children; Edward, Edgar, Nellie, Emma, John C, Julia, William, Frank, Minnie and Arthur Roy Robinson.
Montreal is in the southwest of the province of Quebec. The city covers most of the Island of Montreal at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers.
It was the primary destination of Loyalist refugees and settlers from the United States after the American Revolution, who often were granted land to settle in Upper Canada. The province was characterized by its British way of life, including bicameral parliament and separate civil and criminal law, rather than mixed as in Lower Canada or elsewhere in the British Empire. The division was created to ensure the exercise of the same rights and privileges enjoyed by loyal subjects elsewhere in the North American colonies. In 1812, war broke out between Great Britain and the United States, leading to several battles in Upper Canada. The United States attempted to capture Upper Canada, but the war ended with the situation unchanged.
"Following the Constitutional Act of 1791, the colony of Quebec was divided to create Upper Canada (present-day Ontario) and Lower Canada (present-day Québec). Military and civilian settlers submitted petitions to the Governor to obtain Crown land. Sons and daughters of Loyalists were also entitled to free lands. Were our ancestors loyalists, then?
Land Boards were created in 1789 to oversee land matters, to facilitate settlement in the four districts of Hesse, Nassau, Luneburg and Mecklenburg, and to grant certificates of location to the settlers in these districts.
The Land Boards were abolished in 1794 when the land granting process was centralized through the Executive Council. Therefore, petitions relating to Ontario Loyalists prior to 1791 are to be found in the Land Boards of Upper Canada, 1765-1804 or in the Land Petitions of Lower Canada, 1764-1841. " This must be what lured our ggrandparents onto Canada and leave Vermont.
The government of the colony came to be dominated by a small group of persons, known as the "Family Compact", who held most of the top positions in the Legislative Council and appointed officials. In 1837, an unsuccessful rebellion attempted to overthrow the undemocratic system. Representative government would be established in the 1840s. Upper Canada existed from its establishment on 26 December 1791 to 10 February 1841, when it was united with adjacent Lower Canada to form the Province of Canada.
Sir John Beverly Robinson Robinson was born in 1791 at Berthier, Lower Canada, the son of Christopher Robinson, a United Empire Loyalist of one of the First Families of Virginia, whose ancestor, also named Christopher Robinson, came there about 1666 as secretary to Sir William Berkeley, Governor of Virginia. In 1792, the family moved to Kingston in Upper Canada and then York (later renamed Toronto). After his father's death in 1798, he was sent to live and study in Kingston. In 1803, he moved to Cornwall, where he lived and was educated at the school of the Reverend John Strachan. 1790 was when Jacob H. Robinson was born in Vermont.
In the spring of 1861, Robinson suffered a severe attack of gout and curtailed his work on the bench. He resigned from the Queen's Bench on March 15, 1862, and was appointed presiding judge of the Court of Error and Appeal. Later in 1862, he had another attack of gout and finally retired in January 1863. On January 28, Bishop Strachan gave him communion, and he died three days later.
Robinson Street in Simcoe, Ontario is named is his honour.
(I have a Christopher Robinson born in 1520 in England, father of John Robinson, Sr, 1549 on a direct line from Jacob H Robinson to him. )
Nellie was born in Upper Canada in 1857. Emma was also born there in 1861. By 1864, John C. was born but in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Therefore, all were born in Quebec. His wife was from LaSalle, Illinois where they married in Osage in 1888, so the Robinson family had returned after the Civil War, as Julia was born in Vermont by 1865. The rest were born in Wenona, Marshall, Illinois where they settled.
One of Abiathar's sons was my grandfather, Frank Hugh Robinson. He was born on June 21, 1870 in Wenona, Marshall, Illinois. His wife was on the 1850 census of Royalton, Windsor, Vermont and they married next door in Tunbridge, Orange, Vermont. I had assumed he must also had been a Royalton Robinson. Evidently not, for our DNA touched people in Bakersfield, Vermont. Kid brother, Arthur Roy was born in 1880.
I am always in process with this genealogy. I must have errors in many places. The surest science here is DNA. What I need is someone with a direct line on paper from Jacob H. Robinson to compare with.
Edit: 4/18/2021 -added additional information about Loyalists, land from Canada https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/land/land-petitions-upper-canada-1763-1865/Pages/land-petitions-upper-canada.aspx
Resource
******DNA: I have matches with twins and a Cheryl Carey that lead to having a triangulation. 3 people sharing our Robinson DNA on chromosome #1 and #7. This tells me that my Grandpa 's family was from Bakersfield, Vermont.
https://wwwrobinsongenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-gov-moses-robinson-bakersfield.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Robinson,_1st_Baronet,_of_Toronto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome_1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Canada
Labels: Abiathar Smith Robinson, Bakersfield, Civil War, dna, Franklin, Jacob H. Robinson, Marshall, Quebec, Upper Canada, Vermont, Wenona
Saturday, April 10, 2021
Hyde Line with Queen Ann of England m KING JAMES VII OF ENGLAND Connecting to Our Robinson Line With Amos Benton and Deborah Hyde
Nadene Goldfoot
Edward Hyde was born on 18 February 1609, at Dinton, Wiltshire, sixth of nine children and third son of Henry Hyde (1563–1634) and Mary Langford (1578–1661). His siblings included Anne (1597–?), Elizabeth (1599–?), Lawrence (1600–?), Henry (1601–1627), Mary (1603–?), Sibble (1605–?), Susanna (1607–?) and Nicholas (1610–1611).[2]
His father and two of his uncles were lawyers; although Henry retired after his marriage, Nicholas Hyde became Lord Chief Justice, Lawrence was legal advisor to Anne of Denmark, wife of James I. Educated at Gillingham School, in 1622 he was admitted to Hertford College, Oxford, then known as Magdalen Hall, graduating in 1626. Originally intended for a career in the Church of England, the death of his elder brothers left him as his father's heir, and instead he entered the Middle Temple to study law.
He married twice, first in 1629 to Anne Ayliffe, who died six months later, then to Frances Aylesbury in 1634. They had six children who survived infancy: Henry (1638–1709), Laurence (1642–1711), Edward (1645–1665), James (1650–1681), Anne (1638–1671), and Frances. As mother of two queens, Anne is the best remembered, but both Henry and Laurence had significant political careers, the latter being 'an exceptionally able politician'.
The Hyde line found marrying into our Robinson line through the wife of a Robinson, a Durkee and it leads to Anne Hyde (March 22 1637- April 10, 1671) England who married King James, II, Duke of York and VII of England. They married on September 3, 1660 in London, England. Anne's father was Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon. Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon PC JP, was an English statesman, lawyer, diplomat and historian who served as chief advisor to Charles I during the First English Civil War, and Lord Chancellor to Charles II from 1660 to 1667
Anne Hyde was the mother of Mary II, (April 30, 1662-December 28, 1694) Queen of England who married William III and II, King England, Scotland, Ireland and mother of Queen Anne.( February 6, 1664-1714) who married Prince George " Jørgen (Oldenburg) Fredericksen of Denmark.
Deborah Hyde (October 16, 1734- 1780), an offshoot of our Durkee line-of which our Abiathar Smith Robinson's mother in law was Asenath Durkee was Queen Anne's 1/2 3rd cousin-4 times removed. They shared the same surname but were not exactly direct relatives. Deborah Hyde is our Robinson line relative. She was married to Amos Benton Robinson (July 26, 1734-before March 16, 1812) whose great grandson was my great grandfather, Abiathar Smith Robinson (1829-October 1904).
I have fulfilled my mother's wish to be connected to the kings and queens of England. Mildred Elizabeth Robinson would then be a 1/2 3rd cousin--9 times removed. That makes my brother David and I Anne Hyde's 1/2 3rd cousin--10 times removed.
Nigel Bruce played Sir Edward Hyde in the 1947 film The Exile, with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. as Charles II.
In the film Cromwell, Clarendon (called only Sir Edward Hyde in the film), is portrayed by Nigel Stock as a sympathetic, conflicted man torn between Parliament and the king. He finally turns against Charles I altogether when the king pretends to accept Cromwell's terms of peace but secretly and treacherously plots to raise a Catholic army against Parliament and start a second civil war. Clarendon reluctantly, but bravely, gives testimony at the king's trial which is instrumental in condemning him to death.
In the 2003 BBC TV mini-series 'Charles II: The Power and The Passion, Clarendon was played by actor Ian McDiarmid. The series portrayed Clarendon (referred to as 'Sir Edward Hyde' throughout) as acting in a paternalistic fashion towards Charles II, something the king comes to dislike. It is also intimated that he had arranged the marriage of Charles and Catherine of Braganza already knowing that she was infertile so that his granddaughters through his daughter Anne Hyde (who had married the future James II) would eventually inherit the throne of England.
In the 2004 film Stage Beauty, starring Billy Crudup and Claire Danes, Clarendon (again referred to simply as Edward Hyde) is played by Edward Fox.
In fiction, Clarendon is a minor character in An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears, and he is also a recurring character in the Thomas Chaloner series of mystery novels by Susanna Gregory; both authors show him in a fairly sympathetic light.
Resource:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hyde,_1st_Earl_of_Clarendon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hyde,_1st_Earl_of_Clarendon
My own genealogy of our Robinson line
https://wwwrobinsongenealogy.blogspot.com/2015/11/connecting-to-king-james-ii-and-his.html
