Robinson Genealogy

  Nadene Goldfoot                                                                       
DNA is leading me to one of the descendants of Reverend John Robinson of Holland who led the pilgrims to sail in the Mayflower in 1620 to America. Grandfather Frank Hugh Robinson's oral history was that his family came over not on the Mayflower but the ship after it.    My ggrandfather, Abiathar Smith Robinson, said that he was born in New York before he died.  His Y haplogroup of DNA is R-L21.  He had married Julia Ann Tuller in 1852 in Tunbridge, Vermont.  She was from the town next door, Royalton, Vermont.  Earlier census said he was born in Vermont. The question is, "Who gave the census taker the information, Abiathar?  Children? 2nd Wife?                                                                                                                       
Any records as to who his parents were have been lost or destroyed.  Now I'm relying on DNA to lead to his ancestors.  I have found two ladies who share DNA with me.  We have to assume it's Robinson DNA.  One has found an Ebenezer Ganong Robinson born May 1823 in Roxbury, Delaware, New York  as an ancestor.  Ebenezer's wife was Julia Ann Morse, also born in Roxbury.
                                                                         

Church that Robinsons attended

I've found that Ebenezer's father was Daniel G. Robinson born in 1796 in Roxbury.  Sophia Randall, also born in Roxbury, was his wife.  Their first child was Ebenezer Ganong Robinson born 1823.
                                                                             

Frank Hugh Robinson as a little boy with father, Abiathar Smith Robinson Abiathar met his wife, Julia Ann Tuller, in Royalton, Windsor, Vermont and married her in 1852 in Tunbridge, Orange, Vermont.  She was 17, he 23.   Was he from New York or Vermont?

The 2nd child could very well have been Abiathar Smith Robinson b: 1829.  Mary E Robinson was born two years later in 1831.  Irena was born in 1835, and Abigail in 1839.  Anna Polina was born in 1842, and John H Robinson was born in 1844.   Why is it that Abiathar's records have never appeared?   Is it because he was born in December?   Ebenezer died November 20, 1900 Clark County, Washington.  Abiathar's son, Frank Hugh, died in Hillsboro, Washington, Oregon.
                                                                         

Batavia Kill was a small stream running down in the east of Vega Mountain in the area SE of the town of Roxbury.  The Robinsons farmed and ran mills on the banks of the Kill.  Vega Mountain, east of the town of Roxbury where Major Ebenezer Robinson, his sons and sons-in-law settled in 1793 to 1794.  "The oldest school-house in this town is the one above Robinson's grist-mill, up the Hardscrabble road. It was built in 1813, of stone, and is in as good condition as when built. Since the consolidation of the districts around the village with the village district, it has been used by the "Christians" as a place of worship, but at present there is no organization of the kind in the town."

                                                       

Promoted to Major by July, 1776. A company such as he had commanded as Captain would consist of 85 to 100 men from a specific neighborhood or town. They constituted a “beat” or company. On the first “beat” of a drum, the first company would organize, and so on through the six beats of the regiment.  “Each man had to furnish his own good musket or firelock and Bayonet, sword or tomahawk, a steel ramrod, worm, priming wire and brush fitted thereto, a cartouch box to contain 23 rounds of cartridges, 12 flints and a knapsack, or to be fined under forfeiture.”

Everyone in those days were farmers, and of course the Robinson's all over New England were farmers, too.  Major Ebenezer Robinson born 1735 that then could be Abiathar's great grandfather. He died in 1802 in Roxbury, New York.  Born in Massachusetts, he had been a Major in the Revolutionary War.   Ebenezer's son was Issachar b: 1761 in Dutchess, NY and died in Delaware, New York.  His son was Daniel G born in 1796 in Roxbury  and then Daniel's 2nd son I hope was Abiathar Smith. The 1st son, Abiathar's brother, was  then Ebenezer Ganong Robinson b 1823.  It is from this connection that we connect our DNA and our genealogy trees.  
   
http://www.dcnyhistory.org/books/munrox.html
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nydutche/robinson.html
https://www.facebook.com/DescendantsOfRevJohnRobinson/
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Bakersfield,_Franklin_County,_Vermont_Genealogy

We first started with the 12 allele dna test and were of the R1b1b2 haplogroup.  After going to 67 alleles we then were called the R1b1a2 haplogroup. 

I have just been notified that our Haplogroup has been updated to be R1b1a2a1a1b4 which in shorthand is called (P312+& L21+).  Here is what wikipedia has to say about this new standing.  As more information is discovered, our name has to change. 

R1b1a2a1a1b4 (R-L21)This subclade is defined by the presence of the marker L21, also referred to as M529 and S145.[2] Myres et al. report it is most common in England and Ireland (25-50% of the whole male population).[7]

We tested negative for SNP's U152, U106-P66, P314.2, M37, M222, L96, L226, L193, L176.2, L159.2, L144. 

R1b1a2a1a1b4

P312+ L21+ U152- U106- P66- P314.2- M37- M222- L96- L226- L193- L176.2- L159.2- L144-

R1b Haplogroup expanded all over Europe after the last Glacial maximum which was 10 to 12 thousand years ago. 

What's amazing if this is the most common in England and Ireland is that we only have one match at the 67 allele level, and he is a Robinson.  I hope more Robinsons will get tested. 

Resource: familytreedna: Certificate of SNP

R1b1a2a1a1b4

P312+ L21+ U152- U106- P66- P314.2- M37- M222- L96- L226- L193- L176.2- L159.2- L144-