1. William ROBINSON
(1) was born about 1640. From A Historical Sketch of the Robinson
Family: Page 17:
Shrouded in the mists of the far past, it has been difficult to obtain with any
certain knowledge of the personality of "William of Newton", sometimes
called "William of Watertown." The few facts cited here have been obtained
with more difficulty than all contained in the remainder of this little book.
There is no record of the birth of William Robinson in Massachusettes Colony.
There is one tradition that he came from Bristol, England, which could easily
arise if he sailed from that port, but the tradition of the family of Ebenezer
Robinson is that he came from the north of England.
In the records William RObinson is styled sometimes "of Watertown, sometimes
"of Cambridge" and sometimes "of Newton." This confusion
is not difficult to understand when the uncertain boundaries of the early towns
are kept in mind.
Watertown is the oldest of these towns. As early as Sept. 7, 1630, less than
ten years after the landing of the Pilgrims, "The Court ordered that the
town upon the Charles River be called Watertown." It was the fourth town
formed in the Massachussettes Bay Colony, and next to Dorchester was the earliest
to keep formal records. ("Watertown Records, prepared for publication by
the Historical Society, Watertown, 1894."
When Cambridge was formed, part of Watertown was given to it, and William Robinson
lived in that part of Cambridge called Cambridge Village, which afterwards became
Newton. His farn lay on along the south bank of the Charles River, separated
by it from the Watertown of his time.
All three towns, Watertown, Cambridge and Newton, have records more or less complete
of William Robinson and his family. Evidently he was a freeman of Cambridge Village,
which later became Newton, so we prefer to call him "William of Newton".
The record of the children of William and Elizabeth Robinson is best preserved
in the History of Cambridge, L. R. Paige, page 644.
He was married to Elizabeth
CUTTER (daughter of Richard CUTTER and
Elizabeth WILLIAMS) about 1667 in America.(2)
Elizabeth CUTTER
(3) was born on Jul 15 1673. William ROBINSON and Elizabeth CUTTER
had the following children:
+2 i.
William ROBINSON.
+3 ii.
Samuel ROBINSON.
+4 iii.
Jonathan ROBINSON.
+5 iv.
Elizabeth ROBINSON.
6 v.
Hannah Ann ROBINSON(4) was born on
Jul 13 1671. She died on Oct 5 1672.
7 vi.
Mercy ROBINSON(5) was born on Aug 7
1676.
8 vii.
David ROBINSON was born on May 23 1678. From A Historical Sketch of the
Robinson Family:
Born lame and helpless.
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