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- H. Thomas Robinson1676 - Bef 1740
m. 3 Apr 1697
Facts and Events
References
- Egle, William Henry. Pennsylvania Genealogies; Scotch-Irish and German. (Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States: Lane S. Hart, Printer and Binder, 1886)
Page 545.
FAMILY OF ROBINSON.
I. Among the earliest Scotch-Irish settlers in Pennsylvania, was the family of THOMAS ROBINSON, who came to America prior to the year 1730. The sons, Andrew, William, and Richard located in Derry township, then Lancaster county, Pa.; the other in the adjoining township of Hanover, THOMAS ROBINSON d. prior to 1740. He had issue, among others: . . .
- Thomas was born at Meikle Govan, Portobello, March 21, 1675/6, emigrated to Ireland, settling in Dublin, in 1689, and afterwards in Londonderry. He married Sarah, daughter of Philip Gilbert, April 3, 1697, and had six children, and leased land from the Society of the Governor and Assistants of London, of the New Plantation in Ulster, in the Kingdom of Ireland, or as it was better known, the Irish Society, which held sway over the county of Londonderry, between the rivers Foyle and Bann, leasing and subletting its valuable rights and priviledges. It was sub-leased from the Jackson family, and Thomas Robinson is described as a clothworker, of Coleraine, which was the chief town in the Bann Valley, and from this section came most of the immigrants to Pennsylvania in 1718. Thomas Robinson emigrated to Lancaster Co., PA, with his sons, settling in 1726 at Derry, and some of the sons went afterwards to Hanover, PA.
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