James William Robinson
BIRTH 11 Jan 1704
Virginia, USA
DEATH 1 Feb 1778 (aged 74)
Virginia, USA
h/o Mary Margaret McKinney
Birth: in Virginia.
"The First Pilgrim Robinsons to America were John Robinson and his wife Elizabeth who came from Yorkshire England in 1635. They settled in York County, Virginia. His father, John Robinson married Ann Whitemore, daughter of George Whitemore a knight of Barnes County , Sussex and once served as Lord Mayor of London. He died in 1697. James William Robinson was the grandson of John and Elizabeth Robinson, who came from England and settled in York County, Virginia. James William Robinson married Mary Margaret McKinney, niece of Lord Lynch (Leich, Linch), King of Scotland."
James most likely moved family west between 1745 & 1750 to newly created Augusta county.
In the year 1745, all that portion of the Colony of Virginia which lay west of the Blue Ridge Mountains was erected into a County which was named Augusta. In December of that year, the County Court was organized and held its first sitting. Prior to that time it had become the refuge and abiding place of a strong body of Scotch-Irish immigrants. The bounds of the new County were limited on the north by Thomas Lord Fairfax's Northern Neck Grant and the boundaries of Maryland and Pennsylvania to the westward of Fairfax; on the east by the Blue Ridge mountains; on the south by the Carolina line. On the west its territory embraced all the soil held by the British without limit of extent. For about twelve years the County Court of Augusta was the only Court and repository of records within that district. From the end of that period, at frequent intervals, its jurisdiction was restricted by the erection of other Counties as the demands of the settlers required. Its original constitution embraced all Virginia west of the Blue Ridge (with the exception of the Northern Neck Grant under Thomas Lord Fairfax, whose southern boundary was in the present County of Shenandoah, and western, through the Counties of Hardy, Hampshire, and northward to the Potomac); the whole of the present state of West Virginia; a portion of the present Southwestern Pennsylvania, including Pittsburgh, which was, at times, the seat of the County Court; and the lands on the waters of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
SOURCE: Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia; Volume I
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In 1776 Monongalia county was created from Augusta and from it came Harrison county Virginia, and the southwestern counties in Pennsylvania, south of Ohio River by the 1784 act which very much displeased a George Washington who had built his state of the art grist mill in what now was Pennsylvania, and providing another state control over the waterway route for the Ohio Company products to the Potomac river waterway at Alexandria then to the world. George looked to other routes through Harrison county for a possible water route during his 3rd trip to area in September 1784.
Death: in Monogalia now Harrison county, Virginia now West Virginia
Marriage 1 Mary Margaret McKinney b: 1712
Married:
Known Children
William Robinson b: 18 APR 1743 in Virginia
Henry Robinson b: 1744 in Virginia
John Robinson b: 15 FEB 1745 in Christ Church, Middlesex County, Virginia
McKinney Robinson b: 1750 in Augusta then Monogalia now Harison county, Virginia now West Virginia
Margaret Robinson b: 1752 in Virginia
Benjamin Robinson b: 2 JUL 1758 in Augusta then Monogalia now Harrison county, Virginia now West Virginia
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