Person:Thomas Robinson (7)

Thomas Robinson and Mary Cogan were his parents. Both were born in England.

From Savage's Genealogical Dictionary

[His father] THOMAS, Scituate 1642, m[arried]. at Boston, for sec[ond]. w[ife]. 10 Jan. 1653, Mary, d[aughter]. of John Coggan of Boston, wid[ow]. of John Woodie of Roxbury, wh[o]. d[ied]. May preced[ing]. had James, b[orn]. 14 Mary. 1654; Thomas, 1654; Joseph, 1656; Mary, 1657; Mercy, 1659, wh[o]. prob[ably]. d[ied]. young; but by his former w[ife]. had eldest John, wh[o]. he tho[ugh]t. was in Eng[land]. when he made his will. His w[ife]. d[ied]. at Boston, 26 Oct. 1661, and he took 3d w[ife]. Elizabeth wid[ow]. of Richard Sherman, was a deac[on]. and made his will 17 Mar. 1665, in wh[ich]. he ment[ioned]. est[ates]. in Boston, his w[ife]. as liv[ing]. separ[ate]. from him, yet gives £10 to her (wh[o]. d[ied]. little more than a y[ea]r. aft[er].), and ch[ildren]. John, Thomas, James, Joseph, and Mary. Curious inq[uiry]. would turn to the will of his wid[ow]. 21 Aug. 1666, pro[ved]. 16 Nov. 1667, in vol. VI. p. 9, in wh[ich]. refer[ence]. to the contract of m[arriage]. with her late h[usband]. Thomas, whereby £50 was due to her, she gives half to childr[ren]. of her former h[usband]. Sherman, and half to be disp[osed]. by deac[on]. John Wiswall and William Bartholomew; and of other est[ate]. legacies to John, s[on]. of Edmund Brown of Dorchester; Samuel, s[on]. of John Damon of Reading; Elizabeth d[aughter]. of Thomas Spaule of Boston; childr[en]. ea[ch]. of her sis[ter]. Bridget Lock of Fausett, in Eng[land]. and her orchard to kinsman John Greenleaf, he paying, within six mo[nth]s. £20 to his sis[ter]. Mary. Deane has confus[ed]. f[ather]. and s[on]. The Boston est[ate], was sold by admors. 1667, for the benefit of heirs; and the tree that k[illed]. Thomas in its fall, 1676, did not, as D[eane]. tho[ugh]t. hit the deac[on]. but his s[on].

From the Great Migration Newsletter January - March 2005

His father

Thomas Robinson first settled in Roxbury [RChR 83], but by September 1640 he was in Scituate [Lechford 308]. On 10 June 1642, calling himself of Scituate, Thomas Robinson purchased land at Scituate from James Cudworth [PCR 12:92]. On January 10 January 1652[/3], Thomas Robinson, still calling himself of Scituate, married for a second time at Boston [BVR 38] and then had four children baptized at the Second Church of Scituate from 1653 to 1659 {NEHGR 57:84, 85]. He sold land at Scituate in 1658 and 1660, giving his residence as Scituate [PCLR 2:2:127, 128, 3:1:58]. Soon after 1660 he moved to Boston where he died soon after 17 March 1665[/6?], when he made his will [Pope 388].

1. ↑ James Savage, Former President of the Massachusetts Historical Society and Editor of Winthrop's History of New England. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's. (1860-62 and Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1965; Corrected electronic version copyright Robert Kraft, July 1994)
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