Isaac Robinson (1610 - 1704)

Born 1610 in Leiden, Holland, Nederland

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Hanford) Robinson — married 26 Sep 1636 (to 13 Jun 1649) in Scituate, Plymouth Colony

Husband of Mary (UNKNOWN) Robinson — married after 1649 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 1704 at about age 94 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay

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Isaac Robinson migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Great Migration (Series 2), by R. C. Anderson, vol. 6, p. 68) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

This profile is part of the Robinson Name Study.

"Extracted from the doctrines of "Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire"

Isaac was the second eldest son of Rev. John Robinson and Bridget Whyte (aka White) ..born between brothers

•John Robinson (1606-1725)

•Jacob Robinson (1616- )

Rev. John Robinson

From Leiden, Holland to Plymouth at age 21, Isaac along with his brothers (John ag25 and Jacob ag15) and their widow mother came to Plymouth in 1631, where he remained unlike his brothers John and Jacob, whom had left..

Isaac, when in /ging naar New Plymouth, married there/ huwde daar in 1636 met Margaret Hanford, they had 5 children/ bij wie hij 5 kinderen kreeg; he remarried/ hij trouwde nogmaals in 1649, from this marriage 4 children/ uit welk huwelijk 4 kinderen geboren werden; hij ging over tot de Quakers en stichtte Falmouth;

Also resided in Scituate 1636, Barnstable 1639, falmouth by 1664, Tisbury by 1671, Barnstable 1701.

In Oct. 1643 Dr. John Robinson, Jr., Bridget's oldest son, was residing in England and younger son Isaac was residing in New England at Barnstable, Mass. Bridget's two surviving daughters both married and raised families at Leiden.

Life events

• 1610 about Isaac Robinson was born, son of Rev John and Bridget (White) Robinson. (He was age 92 on 4 April 1702.)
• 1631 immigrated from Leiden to Plymouth on the Lyon.
• 1633 - List of Plymouth freeman between those admitted 1 Jan 1633/4 and those admitted 1 Jan 1634/5. He is also on the Plymouth Colony list of 1636/7
• 1636 Nov 7 - Isaac joined Scituate Church after being dism. Plimoth.^[1]
• 1639 - Plymouth Colony Freeman list in the Scituate section, which was crossed out and his name was moved to the Barnstable section.
• 1640/1 March 2 - Served on a jury.
• 1645 Oct 28 , and 5 June 1651 - Deputy from Barnstable to the Plymouth General Court.
• -1664/5 Feb 7 - approved as an Innkeeper for the ordinary at Saconeesett, which had many travelers between Martin's Vineyard and Nantucket
• 7 Jul 1646, 1 June 1647, 7 June 1648 - Tax Collector
• 5 June 1658 - Coroner's jury
• 7 March 1659/60 - Previous to this Isaac wrote a letter to the Governor in "prejudice of this government and encouragement of ... Quakers". The court held off censure to further inquire into the matter, but in June 1660 they disenfranchised Isaac. He was reestablished in the privilege of freeman later, the court having decided there had been a mistake.
• 1701 Isaac was granted and purchased land and moved around during his time in Massachusetts. His last move, in 1701, was from Tisbury to his daughter's house, in Barnstable.
• 1704 is given in most secondary sources, but there is no evidence.

Marriages

On 27 June 1636 he entered married intentions at Mr. Hatherley's house with Margaret Hanford, daughter of Hatherley's sister Eglin Hanford (NEHGR 9:280, 10:43, 9:286). Isaac Robinson married (1) in Scituate on 26 Sept 1636, Margaret Hanford, who died June 13,1649 a week after a girl child was buried.

• From first marriage/Children: by Margaret Hanford

1. Susanna bpt Scituate 21 Jan 1637/8. No further record.
2. John bpt Barnstable 5 April 1640; m. at Barnstable, about the middle of May 1667 to Elizabeth Weeks.
3. Isaac bpt Barnstable 7 Aug 1642; died before 22 Oct 1668. While trying to fetch two geese from a weedy pond, he was entangled and died.
4. Fear bpt Barnstable 26 jan 1644/5; m. Rev. Samuel Baker.
5. Mercy bpt Barnstable 4 july 1647; m at Falmouth on March 16, 1669 to William Weekes.
6. Daughter born prematurely June 1649 and buried a few days before her mother

He married (2) Mary _____, who died in 1669. Mary Lovering Holman, "The Robinson Family," TAG 18:45, shows that Isaac's second wife was not, as some claim, Mary Faunce, or an Elizabeth, and Mrs. Holman pointed out that although the second wife was believed to have been a Mary, there is no proof. However, Robert S. Wakefield, "Isaac Robinson's Second Wife Mary," TAG56:147. cites Plymouth Colony LR 3:154 to show that in a deed of 1669 Isaac Robinson of Saconesett (Falmouth) was joined by his wife Mary.

• From second marriage/Children: by Mary

1. Israel bpt Barnstable 5 Oct 1651. Later renamed Isaac to honor his deceased older halfbrother. m. Anne Cottle
2. Jacob bpt. Barnstable 15 May 1653 m. (1) Mary _____; and (2) by 1714 to Experience Rogers.
3. Peter, born about 1655. m. by 1688 to (1) Mary Manter, daughter of John Manter and by 1698 to (2nd) Experience _____.
4. Thomas, who disappears from the records. (Mrs. Holman shows that he was probably not the Thomas Robinson of Guilford,Connecticut) (TAG 18:45).

about Isaac

Arrived on ship "Lion"

Moved with Rev. John Lathrop

Martha's Vineyard

Lived with daughter Fear.

Through all his moves Isaac retained his membership in the Barnstable church.

Somehow one might expect that the son of the Separatist's beloved pastor would have been given special privileges, but though he became a freeman by 7 Mar 1636/7 (PCR 1:52), he was not on the original freeman list, nor was he made a Purchaser. He became a resident of Scituate, joining the church there on 7 November 1636, having a dismissal from the Plymouth Church, and he had a new home in Scituate in 1637.

He served on the grand jury in 1639 (PCRE 1:126); he was taxcollector for Barnstable in 1646 (PCR 2:105); and he had several like positions. He was a deputy for Barnstable in 1645 and 1651(PCR 3:161). On 3 May 1659 John Cogan, minor son of the deceased Henry Cogan, selected Capt. James Cudworth and Isaac Robinson as his guardians (PCR 3:161). On 1 March 1658/9 Isaac Robinson and Giles Rickard, Sr. complained to the court that Henry Cogan's two children wor were living with John Finney of Barnstable were being wrongly treated (PCR 3:156). On 7 March 1659/60 the court took notice of "sundry scandals and falsehoods in a letter of Isacke Robinsons, tending to greatly to the prejudice of this government, and incurragement of those commonly called Quakers," and also noted that such an offence could result in disenfranchisement, but the court would forebear until further inquiry (PCR3:183). However, on 6 June 1660 the court disenfranchesed Robinson and Captain Cudworth for being manifest opposers of the law. An addition to the records states that "There being som mistake in this, att his request, hee, the said Isacke Robinson, is reestaablished, and by generall voat of the Court accepted againe into the association of the body of freeman"(PCR 3:189). The date of the addition is unknown, buton 4 July 1673 the court voted to restore him to freeman status (PCR 5:126), and thus he might have been without the vote forsome 13 years. On 8 April 1664 John Cogan, having come of age,discharged his "loveing frinds" James Cudworth and Isaac Robinson from accountability as his guardian (PCR 4:77). On 7 February 1664/5 Mr. Isaac Robinson was approved by the court to keep an ordinary at Saconesett (PCR 4:80). He continued to receive various land grants along with others, but otherwise is mostly unmentioned in the records during the last decades of his life.

Isaac Robinson moved with the Lothrop to Barnstable in 1639, and he died there age ninety-four in 1704 (TAG 18:45). According to Anderson's Migration his death date and location is supported by only secondary sources.^[2]

"Extracted from his findagrave memorial biography"

Born in Leiden, Holland, about 1610 (aged 92 years, 4 April 1702, son of Rev. John and Bridget Whyte/White Robinson. Came to Plymouth Colony in 1631. Died at Barnstable in 1704 (so stated in all secondary sources, but no evidence supplied). (On 4 April 1702 Samuel Sewall wrote "Visit Mr. [Isaac] Robinson, who saith he is 92 years old, is the son of Mr. [John] Robinson pastor of the church of Leyden, part of which came to Plimo. But to my disappointment he came not to New England till the year [1631] in which Mr. [John] Wilson was returning to England after the settlement of Boston. I told him was very desirous to see him for his father's sake, and his own. Gave him an Arabian piece of gold to buy a book for some of his grandchildren ."  Married: (1) Scituate 26 September 1636 Margaret Hanford, daughter of Eglin (Hatherly) (Downe) Hanford and niece of TIMOTHY HATHERLY ("Isaac Robinsonn and Margaret Handford contracted at Mr. Hetherlye's June 27, 1636" [ NEHGR 9:286]). "The wife of Isaac Robinsonn buried [at Barnstable] June 13, 1649, and a maid child born of her before the ordinary time buried the week before" (2) By 1651, Mary _____ . She died after 8 November 1669

Burial: Unknown

Sources

1. ↑ Otis, Amos, "Scituate and Barnstable Church Records" NEHGR Vol. 9(1855):280.
2. ↑ Great Migration Begins

• The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). featured name.subscription site
• bron: P.C. Molhuysen en P.J. Blok (red.), Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek. Deel 5. A.W. Sijthoff, Leiden 1921John Robinson info
• Judge Sewall's Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard Memoranda, 1702, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1860) Vol. 14, Page 13: "Visit Mr. ___ Robinson, who saith he is 92 years old, is ye Son of Mr. Robinson pastor of ye Ch. of Leyden, part of wch came to plimo....", Page 17: Notes Respecting the Descendants of Isaac Robinson, son of Rev. John Robinson of Leyden'
• Banks, Charles. The History of Martha's Vineyard (G.H. Dean, Boston, 1911) Vol. 2: Town Annals. Page 60-2 on archive.org
• "Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire", page 320. Compiled Under the Editing Supervision of Ezra S. Streans.
• Find A Grave: Memorial #34758126