Nicholas Robertson (abt. 1665 - aft. 1718)

Born about 1665 in Scotland

Husband of Jane (Tillman) Robinson — married 1690 in Henrico Co, Virginia

Descendants

Died after 12 May 1718 after about age 53 in Bristol Parish, Prince George, Virginia

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Biography

Nicholas Robertson was born in Scotland.

Nicholas Robertson migrated from Scotland to American Colonies.

Rev William Robertson (1686-1745) and Eleanor Pitcairn (1701-1745) are not the parents of this individual who was born 55 years before his supposed parents married.

Marriages and Children

• First wife: Sarah Marks born Folkestone, Kent, England, Daughter of Mathew Marks and Mary Somes

Children:

• • John Roberson B. Abt 1695 Charles City, Virginia D. Bef May 1774, Granville, North Carolina
  • Israel Roberson b.1698/1700 Bristol Parish, Prince George, Virginia, D.Bef 12 Aug 1760, Granville, North Carolina
  • Edward Roberson b.1700/02 Bristol Parish, Prince George, Virginia, D. Bef 12 Aug 1760, Granville, North Carolina

• Second wife: Jane Tillman

Note

Note:  !C.H. Robinson, Robinson Family p 2, 3, 15, & Cht B

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=rob4993&id=I26078

NICHOLAS ROBERTSON (WILLIAM ROBERTSON4, WILLIAM ROBERTSON II3, WILLIAM ROBERTSON2, DAVID ROBERTSON1) was born BET. 1665 - 1667 in STRUAN, SCOTLAND, and died AFT. 12 MAY 1718 in HENRICO CO, VA. He married SARAH MARKS, daughter of MATTHEW MARKS. She died AFT. 1702. He married JANE TILLMAN ABT. 1690 in HENRICO COUNTY, VIRGINIA. She was born ABT. 1670, and died in HENRICO CO, VA.

Children of NICHOLAS ROBERTSON and SARAH MARKS are:

51 i. CHRISTOPHER ROBERTSON.

52 ii. NICHOLAS ROBERTSON. He married CHARLOTTE REEVES.

+ 53 iii. ROBERT ROBERTSON.

+ 54 iv. JOHN ROBERTSON was born ABT. 1695 in CHARLES CITY, VA, and died 1774 in GRANVILLE, NC.

+ 55 v. ISRAEL ROBERTSON was born BET. 1698 - 1700 in CHARLES CITY, VA, and died BEF. 12 AUG 1760 in GRANVILLE, NC.

56 vi. EDWARD ROBERTSON was born 1700, and died AFT. 1745.

Child of NICHOLAS ROBERTSON and JANE TILLMAN is:

57 i. ELIZABETH "BETSY" ROBERTSON.

SOURCE NOTES for 1 NICHOLAS ROBERTSON follow:

Professor Benjamin C. Holtzclaw ["Kendrick of Gloucester County, Virginia and North Carolina" in John Bennett Boddie's Historical Southern Families, 8 volumes (Redwood City, California: Pacific Coast, 1957), 1: 37-38.] and John A. Brayton [The Ancestry of General James Robertson, "Father of Tennessee," Addendum to The Complete Ancestry of Tennessee Williams (Winston-Salem, NC: J. A. Brayton, 1995), 2 & 13-15.] built a circumstantial case for 11 John, 12 Israel, and 13 Edward Roberson's descent from 1 Nicholas Robertson of Charles City and Prince George Counties, Virginia. Holtzclaw places his confidence level at "practically certain" while Brayton writes that the connections to [1] Nicholas Robertson and his supposed forebears are "problematic." I concur with Mr. Brayton on this point, but I have included the proposed ancestry for 11 John, 12 Israel, and 13 Edward Roberson for the sake of continuity.

Inferential from Charles City County, Virginia, Order Book, 1687-1695, 109. Since [1] "Nicholas Robinson" was of age on 24 Jan 1687 when he registered his cattle mark and since this was his first appearance in Virginia colonial records, Professor Holtzclaw reasoned that he must have been born about 21 years earler.

Inferential from Nicholas Robertson to George Truman, Prince George County, Virginia, Wills and Deeds, 1713-1728, 228 & 501. This is a deed dated May 12, 1718, through which [1] "Nicholas Robertson" conveyed to "George Truman" [elsewhere, Tillman] 100 acres of land in Bristol Parish that Thomas Parrham had bequeathed him on May 14, 1717. On page 501 "Jane Robyson, wife of Nicholas Robyson" relinquished her right of dower.

Inferntial from Susannah Tillman, Will, Prince George County, Virginia, Wills and Deeds, 1713-1728, 144, Thomas Parram, Will, Prince George County, Virginia, Wills and Deeds, 1713-1728, 168, Nicholas Robertson to George Truman, Prince George County, Virginia, Wills and Deeds, 1713-1728, 228 & 501.

Inferential from Mathew Marks, Will, Prince George County, Virginia, Wills and Deeds, 1713-1728, 358, 359 and John Ewens, Patent, Virginia Patent Book 10, 1710-1719, 222. Edw & Jn Markes, Christening Entries; at Pole Stuart, transcriber, Folkestone, Kent County, England Parish Registers, 4 volumes, Volume 1, Baptisms, 1635-1774, FHL Microfilm 908172 / Item 1. Mt Markes and My Somes, Marriage Entry; at Stuart, Volume 3, Marriages, 1635-1840, FHL Microfilm 908173 / Item 2. See also Holtzclaw, 37-38. Holtzclaw writes that 11 John, 12 Israel, and 13 Edward Roberson were "grandsons of Matthew Marks of Martins Brandon Parish, Prince George Co." John Ewen received land for "...the Importation of Seven persons to dwell within...[the] Colony of Virginia whose names are Matthew Markes, Mary Markes, Edw. Markes, John Markes, Israel Markes, Sarah Markes, and Wm. Townsin...," and the Marks will establishes that Mathew Marks' daugher, Mary, married a man named Davenport. Although the Ewen patent does not state the relationships between the people he had imported, the assumption -- based in part on Pole Stuart's transcriptions of the Folkestone, Kent, England parish registers -- is that the six members of the Marks family are the Mathew Markes and Mary Somes, who were married in Folkestone, Kent, on 09 Sep 1669, and four of their children, including Edward and John Marks who were christened in Folkestone, Kent on 09 Aug 1673 and 03 Sep 1676 respectively. If this is the case, the daughter who married George Davenport was born in Virginia before or after 22 Jun 1691 when Mathew Marks was summoned to court in Charles City County for not attending church. However, the more likely scenario is that Mary Somes died before the family arrived in the Colonies and that the people named in the Ewen patent are Mathew Marks and his five children -- who were all born in Folkestone, Kent, England -- in which case Sarah Marks would have been the only of his daughters who could have married 1 Nicholas Robertson.

The evidence for 11 John, 12 Israel, and 13 Edward Roberson's connection to 1 Nicholas Robertson is circumstantial, and it is based on the references I have cited here. The connection is tentative. One might add, however, that the Marks will names John, Israel, and Edward Marks as Mathew Marks' sons and that they appear to have been the namesakes of 11 John, 12 Israel, and 13 Edward Roberson.

ADDITIONAL SOURCE DOCUMENT for 1 NICHOLAS ROBERTSON follows:

Charles City County, Virginia, Order Book, 1687-1695, 109. 24 Jan 1687? [pages 101-102 missing] Nich Robinson's ear mark is a crop and two half crops on each ear. Source: Benjamin B Weisiger III, compiler, Charles City County, Virginia, Court Orders 1687-1695: With a Fragment of a Court Order Book for the Year 1680 (Richmond, Virginia: Weisiger, 1980).

Prince George County, Virginia, Wills and Deeds, 1713-1728, 228. 12 May 1718. NICHOLAS ROBERTSON of Bristol Parish, Prince George Co., to George Tillman of same, 100A in Bristol Parish next to Monksneck Creek, being part of a tract granted to Roger Tillman, and was by above named George, son of Roger, sold to Thomas Parram, dec'd, and by Parram in his will given to the said Robertson; witnesses: John Poythress, John Robyson, George Davenport, John Scoggins. ^[1]

Prince George County, Virginia, Wills and Deeds, 1713-1728, 501. 10 June 1718. JANE ROBYSON, wife of NICHOLAS ROBYSON, relinquishes her dower right to George Tillman in land conveyed to Tillman by her husband

Sources

1. ↑ Weisiger, Benjamin E., III, “Prince George County, Virginia, Wills and Deeds, 1713-1728,” ® 1973 by Benjamin B. Weisiger, III; reprinted 1985, revised and corrected 1994; Iberian Publishing Co., Athens, GA, p. 34.

• Historical Southern Families, Vol. I, p. 38
• The Robertson Genealogy Exchange Thomas Robertson, 2003. Thomas Robertson spent his life researching his family. He searched for all records and analyzed all of them. His website listed above contains all of his research. It includes discussions of what records were found and how accurate they were.
• Ancestry Family Trees (may be inaccurate.)
• Stephen Frederick Tillman, Spes Alit Agricolam (Hope Sustains the Farmer), Covering the years 1225 to 1961 of the Tilghman (Tillman) and Allied Families. Goetz Company, 1962, #1468, page 72 (daughter of Roger)