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About John Robinson, Jr.
John was a lineal descendant (great grandson) of Reverend John Robinson, pastor of the 1620 Mayflower Pilgrims at Leiden, Netherlands, and his wife Bridget White.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Robinson_(pastor)
John Jr. was the son of John Robinson and Elizabeth Weeks, some of the "first settlers of Barnstable, Massachusetts."
In the 1600s, religious persecution in the colonies was real and intense - Quakers were hanged in Boston simply for being Quakers. John Robinson, pastor of the Pilgrims, believed people should "follow truth whenever and by whomsoever taught", which clearly put him in conflict with the Puritans. However, the pastor's son Isaac agreed so much with his father that he left the Congregational Church his father had founded for the Quaker religion in ~1660s, becoming one of the founding fathers of "Falmouth colony." Happily, the Congregationalists and Quakers got along quite well with each other.
John Jr.'s parents' marriage date, along with their children's birthdates, are listed in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol 2, published in 1848. The source of the NEHGR information states that John and Elizabeth were md. "about ye middle of May 1667." John Jr's siblings were: Isaac b. Jan. 30, 1669; Timothy b. Oct. 30, 1671; Abigail b. March 20, 1674; Fear b. June 16, 1̶6̶6̶7̶ 1676, all born in Barnstable, Mass.
The NEHGR erred - Fear's birth year was 1676 but typo'd to 1667 according to both the source of the NEHGR information and Savage. Savage lists additional children: Joseph https://archive.org/stream/cu31924028819212#page/n777/mode/2up b. 1679, Mercy and Mary all bp. October 21, 1688. Also, a son b. December 12, 1683 and a daughter b. May 1, 1688 who both died soon after birth. Savage states John was the first deputy from Falmouth to the Colony Court from 1689 - 1691. John was following in his father Isaac's footsteps: Isaac was a Deputy for Barnstable to the Plymouth General Court, 28 October 1645 and 5 June 1651 [PCR 2:94, 168]. Before removing to Connecticut in April 1714, "John Robinson and his wife Elisa" transferred with others out of the Barnstable church on October 10, 1708. John Jr. was apparently in Rehoboth before his son Ebenezer's marriage in 1722. Did they remove west to Rehoboth because it was another town founded by "non-conformists"? Along with it being much closer to the growing Providence area? Providence was another refuge for persecuted religious dissenters.
John Jr. md. Hannah Wheaton ca. 1690 - fire destroyed a number of Rehoboth records in the late 1600s and early 1700s, including John and Hannah's marriage record. There is a marriage record for a John Butterworth marrying a Hannah Wheaton in 1674, but then as now 8 year olds did not marry. Also, Hannah and John's son Jeremiah Robinson's land record goes towards proving that Hannah Wheaton of Jeremiah Wheaton md. John Robinson:
Notes for JEREMIAH ROBINSON: Deeds: 6/25/1728 - Jeremiah sold 6 1/2 acres "that I purchased of my grandfather, Jeremiah Wheaton".
As for the lack of an official marriage record, "It is true that there is no listing in the Rehoboth Vital Records for the marriage of John Robinson [Jr.] to Hannah Wheaton under either of their names. There is however a Vital Records listing of a death date of June 3, 1755 under Robinson for "Hannah, widow, aged 89 years wanting 11 days". That would make her calculated birth date June 15, 1666. This compares very favorably with the Vital Records listed birth date for "Hannah of Jeremiah and Hannah" (Wheaton) of July 3. 1666, only 18 days off. ... "It is of significant interest that a number of the Vital Records from this period were destroyed in a fire. This can be appreciated by scanning the dates listed for Vital events and seeing that there are often gaps in the range of about 1685 to 1705, the period during which most references have Hannah Wheaton marrying John Robinson [Jr.] - 1690. So it is not entirely surprising that there are no records available to settle this controversy." -- John Hurlin Robinson
John Jr.'s death is recorded in the book "Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896"
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Unless anyone actually lived back in the 1600s, all researchers are left to put the known information together as best as possible. Lashing out at the conclusions reached by many other cooperative researchers is completely unprofessional:
"This memorial's claim that John Robinson of Rehoboth, husband of Hannah Wheaton, was the grandson of my ancestor Isaac Robinson is patently false and I don't appreciate John Hulin Robinson's persistent claim that it was so. John Robinson, son of John Robinson and Elizabeth Weeks, died testate at Barnstable, Mass. between Feb. 20 and Apr. 20, 1727 (Barnstable Probate Records, 4:370)" from contributor #46932939, June 15, 2017: dblauvelt1620@gmail.com Note: Probably interred at Village Cemetery in Rehoboth; cemetery surveys ongoing
- Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jan 18 2018, 16:42:26 UTC
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John Robinson, Jr.'s Timeline
| 1668 |
March 20, 1668
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Falmouth, Cape Cod, Plymouth Colony
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| 1692 |
August 20, 1692
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Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1696 |
January 18, 1696
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Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1699 |
May 30, 1699
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Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States
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March 5, 1701
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Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
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June 10, 1703
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Rehoboth, Bristol, MA, United States
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1705
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April 17, 1708
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| 1726 |
September 2, 1726
Age 58
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Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Province of Massachusetts
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