Memoir of the Rev. William Robinson

1859.]

From N.E. Gen. & Hist. Reg. 1.13, 1859,

John Robinson, of Leyden.

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17. THOMAS CHADBOURNE, by wife Hannah Long, had 8 ch. viz.:(59) Dr. William,[+] b. at Portsmouth, April 21, 1761, d. at Conway, N. H., April, 1840; m. Nov. 21, 1788, Martha McMillan of Conway, who d. Dec. 29, 1841, a. 77;-(60) Hannah,[t] b. May 23, 1763, d. April 26, 1847; m. Philip Page, who was drowned at Portland, Oct. 31, 1825, a. 66;—(61) Mary, b. July 28, 1765, deceased; m. Bennet; res. Moultonboro';-(62) Abigail,[+] b. Aug. 13, 1767, d. Mar. 9, 1842; m. James McMillan of Bartlett, N. H., who d. Sept. 24, 1836, a. 66;—(63) Sarah,5 b. July 15, 1769, d. Dec. 18, 1854, a. 85; m John Noble* of Portsmouth, b. Mar. 31, 1761, d. June, 1808.

59. Dr. WILLIAM CHADBOURNE studied medicine with Dr. Bricket of Haverhill, Mass., and settled at Conway, N. H. By his wife Martha MeMillan he had 2 ch. viz.:-(64) Thomas,[+] (the compiler of this genealogy,) b. Aug. 13, 1790; physician; res. Concord, N. H.; m. Oct. 6, 1818, Clarissa Dwight, dau. of the late Dr. Peter Green of Concord; she d. Jan. 19, 1859, a. 59 ;-(65) Martha Lewis,6 b. May 12, 1794.

60. PHILIP PAGE, by his wife Martha5 Chadbourne, had 11 ch. viz.:(66) William C., b. Mar. 1785, d. at Brunswick, Me., May 30, 1819;(67) Martha, b. Feb. 20, 1787;-(68) Ruth, b. Feb. 20, 1789 ;-(69) David, b. Mar. 9, 1791;-(70) James, b. Feb. 1, 1793;—(71) John, b. Feb. 4, 1795, killed in the Mexican war, July 12, 1846;-(72) Mary, b. May 4, 1797;—(73) Hannah, b. Jan. 13, 1799, d. May 8, 1824;(74) Sophia, b. May 19, 1802, d. Jan. 19, 1855 ;—(75) Samuel ;°—(76) Philip.

62. JAMES MCMILLAN, by wife Abigail Chadbourne, had 6 ch., viz.:— (77) Lewis;-(78) Sally;-(79) Abigail, m. Dinsmore ;-(80) Martha;-(81) Hannah, m. Bennet ;—(82) James.®

64. THOMAS CHADBOURNE, by wife Clarissa D. Greent, had 6 ch., viz.:-(83) Martha, m. Haven ;-(84) Clara D.', m. Berry ;-(85) Anna M.', m. Morey ;—(86) Andrew";—(87) William1;—(88) Thomas E.', d.

young.

REV. JOHN ROBINSON, OF LEYDEN.

Mr. George Sumner, in a speech at the celebration at Plymouth, Aug. 2, 1859, introduced the following new facts relative to the pastor of the pilgrims at Leyden. It will be observed that there is no Abraham mentioned among his children, so that the claim of the posterity of Abraham Robinson, to descent from Rev. John of Leyden, has no reliable foundation. See ante, p. 175.

"Scarce anything has been told us of them [the Robinson family] by Bradford, or the early chroniclers. We know that one son, Isaac, came from Leyden to Plymouth in 1629, and it has been supposed that his mother accompanied him. We know, also, that Miles Standish, by his will, in 1655, preserved in yonder courthouse, left a bequest to the daughter of Isaac, 'Marcye Robenson, whom,' he says, 'I tenderly love for her

*He was the 3d child of Moses Noble, who m. Hannah Simes, Dec. 7, 1756. Moses Noble, d. May, 1796, a. 65. His wife, Hannah, survived him two years. They had 11 ch., viz.:-1, Mark, b. Oct. 3, 1757, d. Jan. 19, 1822; 2, Mary, b. May 19, 1759, d. Aug. 25, 1798; 3, John, b. Mar. 31, 1761, d. June, 1808; 4, Joseph, b. July 12, 1762, d. April 29, 1805; 5, Robert, b. June 10, 1764, d. Oct. 20, 1828; 6, Hannah, b. Jan. 28, 1766, d. Oct. 25, 1799; 7, Dorothy, b. Oct. 17, 1768, d. May 7, 1827; 8, Moses, b. Jan. 22, 1770, d. Aug. 7, 1793; 9, Betsey, b. Oct. 8, 1771, d. Aug. 22, 1798; 10, Jeremiah, b. May 19, 1774, d. Oct. 26, 1800; 11, Ann, b. Aug. 23, 1777.

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Deposition of John Bird.

[Oct.

grandfather's aske.' Good, generous, brave old Captain! Could Priscilla, thirty-five years before, have divined the heart that was in you ?

This is all we have of Robinson's family. But in the year 1622, a census of Leyden was taken, the registry of which is still preserved in the Stadt House. There, on page H 8, I found inscribed the inmates of the house of Robinson-himself, his wife, six children and one maid-serThus stands the record:

vant.

Jan Robberson, preacher.

Brugetta (Bridget) Robberson, his wife.

John, Bridget, Isaac, Mercy, Favor,* Jacob Robberson, his children. Maria Hardy, his maid-servant.

From this we learn that Robinson was blessed with other children than Isaac; but of their subsequent home, or lot in life, we know nothing.

Another fact has interest, as it leaves room to suppose that Robinson's worldly position was more comfortable than other facts may have led us to infer. In the year 1611, he, with some friends, bought a house in Leyden, and this house was no doubt the place where these faithful Pilgrims met, three times a week, to listen to Robinson's teachings, and where they assembled at that sorrowful feast the night before their departure from Leyden. In the record of Robinson's interment, the place of his residence is given; and the deed, a copy of which I hold in my hand, shows that the house purchased by him corresponds in locality with that in which he died.

By this deed, which I found recorded in the Registry at the Leyden Stadt-House, it appears that on the 5th May, 1611, Jan Rabints, preacher of the Divine Word of the English Communion in that city, together with William Jackson, Henry Wood, and Reynulph Tschickens, bought for 8000 florins, or $3200 of our money, a house and garden situated opposite and to the south of the belfry of the Peter's Church. This land was bounded on one side by land owned by William Symons (a good Old Colony name,) and on the south by the cloister of the Falyde Bagyn Church. That church now contains the library of the University, and any future American traveller, visiting that library, may, by looking from the window of the second left-hand alcove, see, at the same time, the garden in which John Robinson walked, and the Peter's Church, under the pavement of which he was buried."

DEPOSITION OF JOHN BIRD, OF DORCHESTER, 1731. Aprill ye 7th 1731. The Testimony of John Bird, of Dorchester, testifieth & Sayeth, I Being Chosen by ye Town of Dorchester one of their Comitee for ye Laying out of ye Twelue Divisions, so called, In ye year 1698, I Heard Nathanell Clap & Ebenezer Clap both of them say, that ye Eighty Acres layed out To Ebenezer Clap In ye 74-5th Lot In ye Twelue Divisions, In ye Township of Dorchester, was setelled upon ye sd Ebenezer Clap as a part of His Father Nichols [Nicholas] Claps Estate, and further sayeth not.

His

JOHN BIRD.

mark.

Suffolk Ss. Dorchester April 7th 1731.
John Bird Being in the 90th year of his age & Blind, had the above
Testimony read to him in my hearing, and there he made oath that it was
true, Before me
ROBERT SPUR, Justice Peace.
John Bird died Aug. 2, 1732, in the 91st year of his age. See Reg.,
Vol. VI., p. 179.

*Rev. George E. Day, who has seen the original, has the impression that this name looks more like Fear.