Person:Jonathan Robinson (8)

When Jonathan was seven years old, his father moved his family to Exeter, NH. On November 30, 1677, Jonathan took the oath of allegiance. In 1678 he was a tithingman, in 1695 he was one of the Selectmen of the town, and in 1678 his name appears in a list of members of the church. Before his death in 1732 he had divided his estate by deed amongst his wife and children.

Deed of Gift dated March 6, 1710, by Jonathan Robinson, from Rockingham County Register of Deeds, Exeter, NH.

To Sarah, his wife, he gives one room in his dwelling house, one bed, and the use of four apple trees during her widowhood; his son Joseph is to pay four pounds a year and to find her in firewood for three years after his death.

He gives the remainder of the farm to his son, Joseph; also four acres of salt march at Hampton and four acres beyond Pickpocket, adjoining Joseph's. Joseph is to pay John three years after his fathers decease sixteen pounds.

To his sons David and James, he gives the remainder of the swamp beyond Pickpocket, to be divided equally. Joseph is to pay twenty shillings to each of these and the same amount to his brother Jonathan in one, two and three years after his fathers decease.

To his daughter, Hester (Esther?), he gives a brass kettle and to his daughter Elizabeth, an iron pot; Joseph is to give them their mothers bed after her decease, or else pay them forty shillings apiece.

To his granddaughter, Lydia, his son John's eldest daughter, he leaves a little bed.

In 1716, Jonathan made another will or division giving his wife more property. The witnesses to this document were David Robinson and Sarah Robinson.

Jonathan Robinson was a farmer and carpenter. He was on garrison duty from October 26 to November 9, 1696. (Bells History of Exeter, N.H., gives the name of Jonathan Robinson as the second name on the books of the town, the name of his father, John, being the first. On June 24, 1667, he witnesses the Leavitt sale of land, signed by his father and mother, John and Elizabeth Robinson. In 1680 his name appeared in the Mason land suit. From October26 to 29, 1696, he was furnishing supplies to the garrison during the Indian War of King William (1690 to 1713). In 1710 he was one of a scouting party in pursuit of Indians. The date of his deed to his wife and children, which seems to have taken to place of a will, bears the date of March 6 , 1710-1711. (N.H. Province Deeds, Volume 9, page 65).

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Richardson, Douglas, "John Robinson (1612-1675) of Newbury, Haverhill, Exeter," vol. 55 [Jan 1979] : 16-18, in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
   (at 55:18).