Robinson Genealogy

 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

# posted by Nadene Goldfoot @ 9:10 PM