Born in Augusta, Virginia
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Daniel Robinson
— married
about 1772 in Pennsylvania [uncertain]
[uncertain] Wife of
Henry Cowen
— married
1781 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Thomas Robinson, Martha Bethaiah Cowan, Jacob Cowan, Elizabeth (Cowan) Loker and William Robinson Cowen
Died
at about age 88
in Rockingham, Virginia, United States
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Biography
Disputed Last Name at Birth
Temperance's maiden name has been recorded in online family trees and genealogies to be Temperance Armistead. According to Lamb her maiden name was either Armistead or Armstrong. The D.A.R. lists her as "TEMPERANCE X ROBINSON" and states that "UNABLE TO DETERMINE IF MAIDEN NAME OF PATRIOT'S SPOUSE WAS ARMISTEAD OR ARMSTRONG."[1] There is no evidence to prove that she was the daughter of Elizabeth (Burgess) Armistead.
Research Note
Frank Lamb in The Henry Cowan Family of Virginia states that "Henry Cowan's comrade was Daniel Robinson who died in the service, and Henry was sent to convey the tidings to the widow, whom he met for the first time on this trip. After leaving the Army, he married about 1781 the Widow Temperance Armistead (or Armstrong) Robinson"[2] The name Daniel and part of this story is supported in the Revolutionary War Records of the National Archive where Private Daniel Robinson was wounded in October of 1777. No other service records are found for Daniel after this date.[3]
Peffley family researchers also state that Thomas Robinson's father was killed in the American Revolution and his mother Temperance remarried to Henry Cowan in 1784 in Rockingham County, Virginia.[2] Temperance Robinson Cowan was named in a letter written by Thomas and he stated that his mother "Grandmother Cowin is yet alive and in tolerable health" in 1834.[4][5][4]
Sources
- ↑ see DAR Ancestor #: A026881
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lamb, Frank Bird, and Maude Pinney Kuhns. The Henry Cowan Family of Virginia. Waterford, PA, 1950.
- ↑ The National Archives. "Page 2 Revolutionary War Service Records - Daniel Robinson." Fold3. Accessed August 08, 2020. https://www.fold3.com/image/23197761?xid=1945.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Frost, May Miller. "The Peffley--Peffly--Pefley Families in American and Allied Families, 1729-1938; Being a Historical and Genealogical Record, Compiled, Edited and ..." HathiTrust. Accessed August 07, 2020. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89069624096. pg. 88-96
- ↑ Stewart, J. Adger. “Hardwick Family.” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 3, 1923, pp. 157–159. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1919189. Accessed 8 Aug. 2020. pg. 157-58. also available at http://wvancestry.com/ReferenceMaterial/Files/William_and_Mary_Quarterly_3.pdf
- Lineage Book : NSDAR : Volume 089 : 1911 [1]
- Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls. [2]
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Temperance by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Temperance:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Temperance by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Temperance:
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I also could find no evidence that Martha (Cowan) Jasper is her daughter. Martha (Cowan) Jasper is showing that she was born in Pulaski, Kentucky in 1778 to Henry Cowan and Temperance Robinson Cowan.
At that time, Temperance was married to Thomas Robinson who died in 1781. Henry didn't marry Temperance until after his death. There is no evidence that Henry or Temperance were ever in Kentucky. These facts are documented in "The Descendants of Thomas Looker" by Leallah Franklin and in the work of Oakley Merz at https://mertzgenealogy.com.
Perhaps she should be detached as well?