ROBINSON  

ROBINSON
 
   This family seems to have descended from a Rev. William Robertson (son of John Robertson and Elizabeth Scott) of Glascow, Scotland. He married Eleanor Pitcairn , born in Dragbergh, Scotland.  Their children who migrated to Virginia arrived before 1680 and settled in the James  River area. Among them were probably the following:  Rev. George, who married to Mary Epps or Worsham in Henrico County; Jeffery, who married Elizabeth Bowman; Thomas  (see below); John, who married Mavel East; William; Nicholas; Nathaniel; and Jean (Jane) who married Alexander Henry. ( They were the grandparents of Patrick Henry, according to one source of research.)

        In 1690 Thomas Robinson purchased 100 acres near Pequanock (Penquanoca) in Henrico County, selling it three years later. In 1701 he purchased 200 acres on the south side of Gillies Creek where he lived until his death about 1743. His wife, who survived him, was Elizabeth _____.
    
    Thomas' son John Robinson was born about 1694 in Henrico County. He married Tabitha Jones, daughter of Mary Fieldsand Edward Jones by 1714. In 1720 he and his brothers-in-law, William Bradshawand William Bradley divided the lands that had belonged to their mother-in-law, Mary Field. That land was sold in 1726. For the next twelve years, he and his family lived on his father's Gillies Creek land. In 1738 he patented 580 acres in Goochland County and moved there. A year later his father Thomas deeded his own land to his sons Thomas and George stating that thesaid Thomas Robinson the elder for Divers good Causes & considerations him thereto moving but more Especially for the Good Will and Natural love he hath and doth bear to the said Thomas and George his Sons and for their better Support and preferment hath given granted Released and Confirmed and by these presents doth Give Grant Release and Confirm unto his two sons Thomas  andGeorge Robinson aforesaid all that plantation and Tract of land whereon the said Thomas Robinson the Elder now dwelleth containing by Estimation two hundred acres more or less lying in the parish and county aforesaid on GillyÕs Creek...to be Equally Divided between them in the manner following that is to say Thomas Robinson aforesaid to have that plantation whereon his brother John formerly dwelled...
    John Robinson lived in Cumberland County thirty years. His will was written in 1767 and probated the next year. Tabitha is not mentioned in the will so must have died before her husband. Their children were John, Thomas, Field, Christopher, Edward, Joseph, Hezekiah, Susannah (below), Judith, and Elizabeth.

    Susannah Robinson (1730 - 1801/5) married her cousin, the second William Bradshaw .  .