SOLON ROBINSON 



Solon Robinson, born in Tolland, Connecticut, on Oc- 

 tober 21, 1803, traced his descent from good pioneer 

 stock. 1 Seventh in direct line from John Robinson, a 

 respectable citizen of Sturton, Nottinghamshire, Eng- 

 land, his earliest ancestor in America was the Reverend 

 John Robinson, of Leiden, pastor of the Pilgrims. Con- 

 cerning Isaac, son of the pastor, little is known beyond 

 the fact that he was born in Leiden in 1610, and died at 

 Barnstable, Massachusetts, in 1704, a span of existence 

 which offers reasonable proof of a toughness of fiber 

 superior to the privations of settlement in a new land, 

 the rigors of winter in New England, the horrors of 

 Indian attack, and the intolerances of theological con- 

 troversy. Peter, offspring of Isaac, a weaver by trade, 

 emigrated from Massachusetts to become one of the 

 earliest settlers of Windham, Connecticut, where he died 

 in 1740. 2 Peter the Second, born at Tisbury, Massachu- 

 setts, in 1697, became a farmer near Windham, and in 

 time achieved a considerable estate. Too old to serve in 

 the Revolutionary War, he supplied clothing to the sol- 

 diers and also acted as commissary to the Army. He 

 was active until his death in his eighty-eighth year. 3 

 Jacob, grandfather of Solon, who was born in 1734 and 

 died in 1809, continued the family residence at Windham, 



1 For information concerning Solon Robinson's ancestry, see 

 Robinson Genealogy ; Descendants of the Rev. John Robinson, Pas- 

 tor of the Pilgrims, volume 1 (The Robinson Genealogical Society 

 [Boston, 1926]). 



2 Ibid., 1:51-53; Connecticut Archives: Ecclesiastical, 1659-1789, 

 vol. 4:doc. 107a. 



3 Robinson Genealogy, 1:58-59; Connecticut Archives: Militia Pa- 

 pers, 1678-1788, docs. 1284a, 1284b, 1284c; ibid., Travel, 1700-1788, 

 vol. 2:doc. 17; vol. 3:doc. 316b; ibid., Ecclesiastical, 1732, vol. 

 4:117-19; ibid., Revolutionary War, 1763-1789, vol. 35:docs. 49a, 

 249e; ibid., Windham Probate District Court Records, 1778, no. 

 3238. 



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