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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1913. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... SOME OF THE ROBINSONS IN VIRGINIA BY Mrs. George W. (almira Louise Hornor) Atkinson, Washington, D. C. CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON of Cleasby, County of Yorkshire, England, being appointed by King Charles Second secretary to the Governor of Virginia about 1630, came to America with his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Christopher Potter of Cleasby, and several brothers, settling in New Charles Parish, County of York, Virginia, where he died, March 1st, 1688. His wife died in the month of October, 1691. They left several children--John, William, Beverly, Elizabeth, Margaret, Moncure, Charles, Sarah, Thomas, Malvina, Frances, George, Samuel, James, Anthony and Anna. Moncure Robinson (son of Christopher and Elizabeth) was born May 1st, 1662, in New Charles Parish, and died November 11, 1727. He left several children--Moncure, James, Peter, Samuel, Anthony, John, William, Margaret, Anna, Beverly, Mary and George. William Robinson (son of Aloncure, who was born on the 1st of May, 1662), married, first, Mary Margaret Webb, and had seven children, one of whom was Benjamin, my great-grandfather, who married Margaret Mary Asson, the widow of J. Wilkinson, and had children--Elizabeth, Felix, David, Margaret, Mary, Magdalene, Benjamin, John, Susan, Malinda and William Marshall. David Robinson (son of Benjamin and Margaret Marv Asson), my grandfather, married March 16, 1809, Sarah, daughter of Capt. David Wamsley, who lived in Shinston, on the farm made famous in literature by the "old elm tree," and now called the "Elm Farm," which was sold to the Everson family in 1840. David and Sarah Wamsley Robinson had eight children: -- 1st, Malvina F. Robinson, who married Dudley E. Rogers of Lumberport, W. Va. Six children. 2d, Mary Asson Robinson (my mother), who married as his...
