Robinson Genealogy

                                                                             
2nd cousin once removed Sandy discovered that our mutual relatives, Heman Durkee and wife Susanna Rix were related to the famous family who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620, Stephen Hopkins and his wife Mary and three children, Constance, Elizabeth and Giles.  Surprisingly, he also had 2 servants with him.  Constance was 14 years old at the time. "Stephen Hopkins was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620, one of 41 signatories of the Mayflower Compact, and an assistant to the governor of Plymouth Colony through 1636."

Mayflower Compact

"He worked as a tanner and merchant and was recruited by the Company of Merchant Adventurers of London to provide the governance for the colony and to assist with the colony's ventures. He was the only Mayflower passenger with prior New World experience, having been shipwrecked in Bermuda in 1609 and arriving at Jamestown, Virginia in May 1610. Hopkins left Jamestown in 1614 and returned to England."  I believe he was able to speak with the Indians who had learned a little of English because of his Jamestown experience.  .  

 Stephen was not a free man then but became free later. In those days men were divided between the free who were not in debt and those who were.  After Mary died, Stephen married Elizabeth Fisher on February 19, 1616/17 and had 6 more children; Oceanus, a girl,  being the first along with Caleb, Deborah, Demaris, Ruth and Elizabeth. 

Descendants of STEPHEN HOPKINS

1  [1] STEPHEN HOPKINS b: April 30, 1581 in Upper Clatford, Hampshire, England
.. +Mary "Kent" b: Abt. 1590 m: Bef. 1604
. 2  Constance Constanta HOPKINS b: May 11, 1606 in Hursley, Hampshsire, England d: 1677 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
..... +Nicholas Snow b: Abt. 1606 in London, Middlesex, England d: November 15, 1676 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
. 2  Elizabeth HOPKINS
. 2  Giles HOPKINS
*2nd Wife of [1] STEPHEN HOPKINS:
.. +Elizabeth Fisher b: Abt. 1583 m: February 19, 1616/17
. 2  Oceanus HOPKINS
. 2  Caleb Hopkins
. 2  Deborah Hopkins
. 2  Demaris Hopkins
. 2  Ruth Hopkins
. 2  Elizabeth HOPKINS
                                                                       
         
Constance married Nicholas Snow.  Their son, John Snow, married Mary Smalley on September 19, 1667.  John was one of the first to start the town of Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts.   Their daughter, Rebecca Snow, married Benjamin  Smalley in about 1694.  .Eventually they moved on into Connecticut.

Rebecca Snow and Benjamin Smalley's son Joseph became a deacon in the church.  He had married Jemima Ordway in about 1735 in Connecticut.  Their daughter, Lucy Anna Smalley, married Timothy Lewis Durkee on May 3, 1758 in Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut who became a Colonel, and was our mutual ancestor and the beginning of the Durkees that ran so prominently in our family line.    Their son, Col. Heman Durkee, had married Susanna Rix on September 19, 1781 in Royalton, Windsor, Vermont.  .  They were both sons of the American Revolution of 1776.  We can be proud of their service.  Timothy died in 1797 in Royalton, Vermont and Heman also died in 1797 also in Royalton, Vermont if my records are correct.  .
                                                                           
This family of Timothy Durkee suffered greatly through the burning of Royalton, Vermont by Canadian Indians who were accompanied by the British  on October 16, 1780. It had just become chartered the year before in 1779.  The town was in a thriving condition with cattle were still grazing in the fields.  The Indians had followed the rivers and had already gone through Chelsea and Tunbridge and onto Royalton, their destination.  Second son Adin, born in 1761, was captured by the Indians.  He was taken to Montreal, Canada where he died on December 19, 1780.

 Of all of Timothy's children, only his eldest son, Col. Heman, remained in Royalton.  Harvey remained in Vermont while several removed to New York.  The grandchildren spread out far and wide in the new lands.  They found their ways to Pennsylvania, New York, Wisconsin, Texas, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Odelltown, Canada, Iowa, and then Vermont, of course, where our great grandfather, Abiathar Smith Robinson and wife Julia Ann Tuller lived at first.  While our grandfather was Frank Hugh Robinson, Sandy's grandmother was his sister,

This is how Sandy got to Stephen Hopkins:
1. Heman Durkee/Susanna Rix
2. Lucy Smalley/Timothy Durkee
3. Joseph Smalley/Jemima Ordway
4. Rebecca Snow/Benjamin Smalley
5. John Snow/Mary Smalley
6. Constance Hopkins/Nicholas Snow
7. Stephen Hopkins/Mary Kent

      The amazing fact is that when I did my student teaching at Buckman Grade School in Portland, Oregon, my senior teacher for that period was Betty Smalley.  Little did we know we may have shared some genes.  She was great!  

Our great grandfather was Abiathar Smith Robinson born in 1829 possibly in Bennington, Vemont. His wife was Julia Ann Tuller probably also born in Royalton  who connected before to the Mayflower. 
Julia Ann Tuller's mother was Asinath Durkee born in 1814 in Royalton, Vermont. 
Descendants of Heman Durkee, Jr.

                                            SOME GENEALOGY OF OUR FAMILY

1  Heman Durkee, Jr. b: October 21, 1789 in Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont d: January 09, 1865 in Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont, age 76
.. +Rebecca Hatch b: June 12, 1791 in Sharon, Windsor County, Vermont d: June 07, 1872 in Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont, age 81 m: September 15, 1813 in Vermont
. 2  [1] Lydia Durkee b: June 13, 1813 in Vermont/ Canada d: June 30, 1874 in Royalton, Tunbridge, Orange County, Vermont
..... +Oliver Farman Bates b: Abt. 1810 in Dunham, Missisquoi County, Quebec, Canada d: 1841 in Shefford, Quebec, Canada m: December 29, 1828 in Dunham, PQ, Quebec, Canada
. *2nd Husband of [1] Lydia Durkee:
..... +Reuben George b: Abt. 1821 in Tunbridge, Orange, Vermont d: March 16, 1885 in Royalton, Orange, Vermont m: March 14, 1841 in Tunbridge, Vermont
. 2  Emily Durkee b: October 26, 1814 in Royalton , Vermont d: December 12, 1891 in Royalton, Vermont
..... +William Leonard b: Abt. 1816 in Vermont d: September 22, 1879 in Royalton, Windsor, Vermont m: December 11, 1839 in Royalton, Windsor, Vermont
. 2  Asenath Asinith Durkee b: 1814 in Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont d: 1868 in Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont/Rockwell, Illinois
..... +Alonzo Charles TullarTuller b: October 22, 1809 in St. Albans, Vermont (Franklin County) d: January 29, 1870 in Rockwell, LaSalle, Illinois m: July 05, 1834 in Royalton, Windsor County,  Vermont
. 2  Heman Herman Durkee III b: Abt. 1816 in Vermont,  Quebec, Canada d: February 10, 1877 in poss Vermont ?
..... +Fanny Mosher Mosier b: June 02, 1818 in Quebec, Canada d: July 22, 1893 in Newport, Orleans County, Vermont m: 1837 in prob. Quebec, Canada

Resource:  Durkee Family Newsletter Volume Xii, #1  Spring, 1993 The Burning of Royalton
http://mayflowerhistory.com/hopkins-stephen/
https://www.familysearch.org/search/
Assistance from cousin Sandy
https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-menu.php?name=24679+stephen+hopkins

Nadene Goldfoot

What was it like back in 1840?  The country was in a Depression.   Did people have presidential woes like we do today?
 How did people ever build cabins?  How did they cut down trees so that they could build them?
 This place, found in Stowe, Vermont, is 800 sq feet, quite large for a cabin. It can sleep 4 people.   It's available to rent.  One can sit on the porch and listen to the stream as it flows.  It's not a log cabin, however, like the one Julia Ann Tuller's father, Alonzo, might have built.
                                                               

Typical Vermont log cabin

"On July 7, 1840 Vermonters showed their support for William Henry Harrison from Ohio, a Whig (9th president)  at the Stratton Convention. Daniel Webster was the spokesman. Log cabins were erected at the rally sight and people flocked to Stratton Mountain.
                                                  

They ski at Stratton Mountain today.

 While accounts vary, historians estimate there to have been 10,000 to 15,000 people gathered at this "log cabin rally." The following transcript of a newspaper article announces the construction of a log cabin at Stratton Mountain:                     

President William Henry Harrison He gave a 2 hour speech, the longest when he became president.

We learn the Fourth of July is the day selected for raising the Log Cabin, in which is to be held the District Convention on the seventh—a fit day for such an employment. As our Fore-Fathers on the Fourth of July 1776 raised a document which delivered thousands from the thralldom of Tyranny,—so will the Whigs of this District, on the Fourth of July 1840, raise a building in which means shall be devised to rescue thousands from a worse Tyranny. (Vermont Phoenix, June 26, 1840)"  He was following the 8th president, Martin Van Buren a New York Democrat.  

Harrison served for one month, dying in office from pneumonia.  His Vice President, John Tyler-a Whig, then became the 10th President and served for the next 4 years.  
                                                                                       

Abe Lincoln, our 16th president,  was brought up in a log cabin in Illinois.  Here is an original at his birthplace. Lincoln was born in 1809.  This appears to be more like our toy Lincoln logs, doesn't it?  
                                                                                    

Our ggrandmother, Julia Ann Robinson nee Tuller, had parents who lived in St. Albans Vermont and then moved to Royalton, Vermont where she must have met up with Abiathar Smith Robinson as she was a 15 year old there on the 1850 census.  They married in 1852 in the town next door, Tunbridge.  

The town of Royalton was chartered in 1779.  Before that it was a nice-sized setttlement.  The people here had been farmers in the old countries and had large stocks of cattle already with them.  People "loved their neighbors as themselves."

 On the 16th of October, 1780, 300 Indians of various tribes led by the Caghnewago tribe, had left Canada to attack another town, Newbury in eastern Vermont.  However, Lt. Horton, a British lieutenant, who was the Indian's commander and Le Mott, a Frenchman, his 2nd, were led by a villain, Hamilton.  Hamilton had become a prisoner of the Americans in 1777.  He had been at Newbury and Royalton on parole.
                                                    

 "The Royalton raid was a British-led Indian raid in 1780, one year after being chartered,  against various towns along the White River Valley in the Vermont Republic, and was part of the American Revolutionary War. It was the last major Indian raid in New England."   He led them to Royalton, knowing it would be defenseless and went through Tunbridge to get to Royalton.

 Entering before daylight, they entered the house of John Hutchinson who lived close to the border of Royalton from Tunbridge.  They took John and his brother, Abijah prisoners and plundered the house., then went to Robert Havens' house.  Havens was outside tending his sheep, and when on a hill, heard Hutchinson's dog barking.  Seeing Indians at his door, he hid behind a log.  He heard his wife screaming and his sons running away.

Thomas Pember was killed by a spear as he ran from the Indians.   Eventually, the 300 set the town on fire.  Such were the dangers of these brave ancestors of ours seeking a better life.

                                                                       

Amos and Lois Robinson's  son, Dwight C. Robinson lies here in the South Royalton Village Cemetery.  Born in 1832, he died February 18, 1853 at age 21. Amos was born in Royalton in 1797 and Lois in 1800.   Descendants of CYRUS B. ROBINSON, Possible father of Abiathar as we do not know.  Records not forthcoming.  It's more likely that his father was from Royalton or very nearby and here, the parents are.  Abiathar was not on the 1850 census with Cyrus and Thankful and 2 sisters, but he was now 21 years old.   1  [2] CYRUS B. ROBINSON, father b: November 04, 1808 in Royalton, Windsor, Vermont d: December 24, 1864 in Sharon, Windsor, VT .. +Thankful Preston b: October 28, 1811 in Strafford, Orange, Vermont d: May 03, 1858 in Strafford, Orange, Vermont . 2  [1] Abiathar Smith Robinson b: December 1829 in New York/  Tunbridge, Orange/ Jamaica, Windham, Vermont d: October 07, 1904 in Wenona, Marshall, Illinois ..... +Julia Ann Tuller b: December 18, 1834 in Royalton, Windsor, Vermont d: December 02, 1887 in Wenona, Marshall, Illinois . *2nd Wife of [1] Abiathar Smith Robinson: ..... +Mary Jane Deffenbaugh Walters b: November 27, 1832 in Hocking County, Ohio d: July 05, 1918 in Streator, LaSalle, Illinois, age 85 . 2  Edna N. Robinson b: April 23, 1833 in Strafford, Orange, Vermont d: September 08, 1925 in Chelsea, Orange, Vermont ..... +Henry J.W. Flanders b: February 26, 1827 in Boscawen, Merrimack, New Hampshire d: July 03, 1880 in prob. Royalton or Chelsea, Vermont . 2  Mary A. Robinson b: May 03, 1834 in Vermont d: December 23, 1872 in Sharon, Windsor, Vermont ..... +Unknown Smith b: Abt. 1872 *2nd Wife of [2] CYRUS B. ROBINSON, father: .. +Martha Unknown b: Abt. 1810 in New Hampshire d: Aft. August 1870 in prob. Sharon, Windsor, VT

Reference:  https://www.vrbo.com/658102
http://vermonthistory.org/educate/online-resources/an-era-of-great-change/politics-government/log-cabin-rally
http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/william-henry-harrison
https://prezi.com/o11vnipy3cxp/vermonts-history-of-architecture/
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://img6.onthesnow.com/image/la/89/89867.jpg&imgrefurl=https://www.onthesnow.com/vermont/stratton-mountain/ski-resort.html&h=385&w=616&tbnid=hROSUhpB7SjhKM:&tbnh=160&tbnw=256&usg=__poYDfbSvTPzXHW1uUUP2B67uv9o=&vet=10ahUKEwicjOuJuKrXAhUOyWMKHWuSBKkQ_B0IkgEwEQ..i&docid=X8AusYxRFTvpGM&itg=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwicjOuJuKrXAhUOyWMKHWuSBKkQ_B0IkgEwEQ
Durkee Family Newsletter, Spring 1993, Volume Xii, #1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royalton_raid