Robinson Genealogy

  Nadene Goldfoot                                             

        Abiathar Smith Robinson with son Frank Hugh Robinson, c. 1880 sitting on hay; a Farmer, in Wenona, Marshall, Illinois had large farm, horses, bull, 10 children, 5 yrs older than wife Julia Ann Tuller, whose mother was Asenith Durkee.  Asenith and Abiathar; names from Old Testament.  He would have been 21 years old in 1850 and on his own.  There was Amos Robinson of Royalton, Windsor, Vermont where Abiathar met his wife who was on the 1850 census, Julia Ann Tuller/ar, but Abiathar wasn't on the 1850 census with Amos.  Abiathar and Julia married in the town next door, Tunbridge,Orange, Vermont in 1852.  Abiathar was not on any census.  Julia Ann was 15 on the 1850 census and there was also listed a John Robinson, 51, farmer. also born in Vermont.   Was he related to Abiathar?  

 Time Line of Abiathar Smith Robinson/Roberson's Family

DNA from ggrandson shows Y haplogroup tested at R-L21, updated to R-FT111213 Big Y Test;  Also found DNA matched some of Fitzpatrick clan.org. of Ireland-telling more about deeper ancestry.  Family legend has it that family came over from Wales not on Mayflower of 1620  but ship after that, which could be on convoy of 1630.  John Robinson, Pastor in Holland is person who sent Pilgrims over on Mayflower.  His son, Isaac, followed later, probably in 1630.  I don't think our DNA matches theirs.  Scratch that idea as Isaac being the origin. No records connect to Wales.  No records show Abiathar's parents.   (A few records showed Roberson; spelling of Robinson?  Pronunciation? writing interpreted today?)  .  

  7 December 1829  Abiathar Smith Robinson is born: in Vermont

                                                                              

This home has a lot of potential! I see pocket doors, hardwood floors, and great windows. This home was built in 1850. It is located on .97 acres in Bennington, Vermont. That is an amazing built-in! I am not familiar with that area, but I kind of feel like they are asking too much for this property and house. It will require a lot of work. The property has a park like setting with a circular drive and a detached two car garage. Four bedrooms, three bathrooms, and 3,808 square feet. $119,000 at today's prices. How to obtain farmland in Vermont in 1850?  

They wanted to travel fairly close to Royalton and Tunbrige.  To encourage settlement, Congress passed the Distribution-Preemption Act of 1841,  11 years before they married, which recognized squatters' rights and allowed settlers to claim 160 acres of land in the new territory. After residing on the property for 14 months, a claimant could purchase the property at $1.25 an acre.  That's what Aibathar would want as a farmer, 160 acres of land.  From Royalton, VT to Quebec was about 278 miles.  

             1850-1860  Underground Railroad-15,000-20,000 fugitives reached Province of Ontario, Canada, , 2 British North American Colonies, Upper Canada, Lower Canada; FREE LAND GIVE-AWAY, Blacks escaping to freedom could get there through the Underground Railroad.  "Ferrisburg, Vermont, about 45 miles from Royalton, had Quakers who were helping the blacks get on the Underground Railroad.  Vermont was the home and sheep farm of the Robinson family, who were Quakers. Four generations of the family lived on this property; one of those generations featured a husband and wife named Rowland and Rachel. They were abolitionists, and they sheltered or aided dozens of fugitive slaves here on the farm in the 1830s and ‘40s."  Abiathar was a Methodist.  New England was full of Robinsons. But land could be had for free, probably why the newlyweds headed for Canada.  They were farmers. 

29 February  1852  Marriage of Abiathar to  Julia Ann Tuller in Tunbridge, Orange, Vermont

                      1854  Birth of Abiathar W. Robinson in ? Vermont, d: Quebec, Canada in 1865

                     1855  Birth of Edgar Clyde Robinson in Vermont

                            Moved to Canada

7 October    1857  Birth of Nellie Elizabeth Robinson in Upper Canada, (English)

12 APRIL   1861   CIVIL WAR BEGAN

7 August     1861   Birth of Emma "Hattie" Robinson in Canada

21 April      1864  Birth of John C. Robinson  in Montreal, Quebec, Canada                          

                  1865   Birth of Julia Robinson in   Quebec ? 

                  1865  Death of Abiathar W. Robinson in Quebec, Canada, age 11

9 APRIL   1865     CIVIL WAR ENDED

                              Returned to USA to Illinois

      1867-  1869    Birth of William S. Robinson in ? Wenona, Marshall, Illinois

21 June   1870    Birth of Frank Hugh Robinson in Wenona, Marshall, Illinois (father 41)  

5 January 1873  Marriage of  Nellie Robinson to Daniel McCullen in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska

November 1875  Birth of Minnie J. Robinson in Wenona, Marshall, Illinois

3 March    1879  Marriage of Edgar C. Robinson, Pvt to Mary Acuff in Cambridge, Henry, Illinois

30 May     1880  Birth of Arthur Roy Robinson in Wenona,, Marshall, Illinois

24 Dec     1880  Marriage of Emma Robinson to George D. Miller in Wenona, Marshall, Illinois

          Abt 1883  Marriage of  Edward Rix Robinson and Jenette Jensen in Tama, Des Moines, Iowa

17 April   1887  Death of Edgar Clyde/Clayton Robinson, Pvt. ? in Wenona, Marshall, Illinois

 2 Dec    1887  Death of  Julia Ann Robinson in Wenona, Marshall, Illinois

22 Feb   1888  Marriage of John C. Robinson and Hermia Howell in Osage, LaSalle, Illinois

              1889  Marriage of  William S. Robinson and Carrie Monninger in ?Dana, LaSalle, Illinois

Sept      1891 Marriage of Minnie Robinson and Louis Sherman Cusac in Lacon, Marshall, Illinois

2 Dec   1892  Marriage (1st) of Frank Robinson to Alice Mitchell in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska

            1896  Marriage (2nd) of Abiathar S. Robinson to Mary Jane Deffenbaugh Walters, Wenona, Illinois

21 April 1898   Spanish American War started

10 Dec. 1898    Spanish American War ended

                    1903  Death of Julia Robinson, perhaps Illinois?

11 August  1904  Marriage of Arthur Robinson to Minnie Mae Smith in Lacon, Marshall, Illinois

 7 October   1904,  Death of Abiathar Smith Robinson in Wenona, Marshall, Illinois

28 December 1905 Death of Nellie Elizabeth McCullen nee Robinson in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska

                   1910  Marriage (2nd) of Frank H. Robinson and Augusta Gustafson in Sioux City, Iowa

6 April         1917  World War I Declared in USA:  

18 May       1917  Draft started to enlist soldiers into World War I War

                    1922,  Death of Edward "Rix" Robinson,  in Wenona, Marshall, Illinois

5 June        1923   Death of John C Robinson, Pvt-infantry,  in Wenona, Marshall, Illinois

                  1923  Death of Minnie J. Cusac nee Robinson in Illinois

17 April     1927  Death of Arthur Roy Robinson in Peoria, LaSalle, Illinois

29 December 1930 Death of Emma Hattie Miller nee Robinson in Streater, LaSalle, Illinois

9 April       1935  Death of William S. Robinson in Peoria, LaSalle, Illinois

27 May     1952  Death of Frank Hugh Robinson in Hillsboro, Washington, Oregon

                                                                      

         Abiathar Smith Robinson from Tom Mead, grandson of Arthur Roy Robinson, c1851

                                                                            

                                            son Frank Hugh Robinson, Teamster c. 1890

                                                                          

        son Frank Hugh Robinson with ? son? c 1900's Frank is older now

                                                                           

     son Frank Hugh Robinson with his son, Edward Kenneth Robinson b: 1915;  taken c 1935, Hillsboro, Oregon                                                                  

Resource:

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/underground-railroad

https://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/intro.html#:~:text=36.,Paris%20on%20December%2010%2C%201898.