Anna (Robinson) Leavitt (1779 - 1814)

Born 18 Sep 1779 in Chilmark, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Rouse Howland Leavitt — married 14 Oct 1798 in Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States

Descendants

Died 15 Dec 1814 at age 35 in Livermore, Oxford, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Birth

Anna "Hannah" Robinson was born on Naushon Island in Chilmark, Massachusetts, on 19 Sep 1779, the daughter of Zephaniah Robinson and Jedidah (West) Robinspn.^[1]

Marriage

Anna "Hannah" Robinson married Rouse Leavitt at Rochester, Massachusetts, on 14 Oct 1798.^[2]

Children

The children of Anna "Hannah" (Robinson) Leavitt are listed in the "Children" section of her husband's profile. She is the mother of the first eight children listed there.

Death

Anna "Hannah" Robinson died at Livermore, Maine (then in Massachusetts) on 15 Dec 1814.^[3]

Research Notes

• Her name is given as Anna by Banks in his history of Martha's Vineyard, and it appears as Anna in her marriage record in the Livermore vital records, but it is given as Hannah in the Livermore records of her death and of the births of her children.
• That the Anna Robinson born on Naushon Island in Chilmark in 1779 is the Anna Robinson who married Rouse Howland Leavitt and recorded children with him as his wife Hannah is confirmed by two pieces of evidence: (1) Banks gives her death date as 1814, which matches her death date in the Livermore records;^[1] (2) the death record of her son Stillman gives her birthplace as "Naushon, Mass."^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Charles Edward Banks,The History of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts, "Vol. 3: Family Genealogies" (Edgartown, Mass., 1925), page 421
2. ↑ Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910, database, FamilySearch, Rouse Leavit and Anna Robinson, 14 Oct 1798; FHL microfilm 0873753 IT 1-2
3. ↑ Vital Records of Livermore, Maine; Vital and town records, 1797-1910; "Livermore Vital Records, 1805-1862", page 25; FHL Microfilm 11332, Image 220 of 718
4. ↑ Death record of Stillman Leavitt at Fairhaven, Massachusetts, on 9 Oct 1872, in Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910 (From original records held by the Massachusetts Archives. Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004.), volume 247, page 94 (subscription required)