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Josiah Robinson

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts
Death: between August 16, 1703 and June 02, 1705 (27-30) (In service against the Indians)
Immediate Family:

Son of Increase Robinson, Sr. and Sarah Robinson
Brother of Sarah Deane; Increase Robinson, Jr.; Hannah Williams; Bethiah Pitts; Lieut. Ebenezer Robinson and 1 other

Managed by: Esther Rowe Irish
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About Josiah Robinson

M v Josiah ROBINSON 1, 2 was born 1675 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, son of Increase Robinson & Sarah Penniman.

Josiah died while in service against the Indians. The tradition is that he became overheated in running after a wounded deer, and in drinking from a cold spring of water died suddenly.


  • Increase Robinson, Senior, of Taunton The Robinsons and their kin folk Robinson Family Genealogical and Historical Association. Published 1902 by The Association in New York, N.Y .  Page 21-26
  • Will of Josiah Robinson, 1703 Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Records, 1687-1745. Page 33
  • http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hwbradley/aqwg163...
  • 1 Morris, John Emery, Stephen Lincoln of Oakham, Massachusetts: His Ancestry and Descendants (Hartford, Connecticut: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1895.), p. 25, Los Angeles Public Library, 929.2 L73-4.
  • 2 Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts (Boston, Massachusetts: Colonial Society of Massachusetts.), 6:85, Family History Library, 974.4 B4cs.
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Josiah Robinson's Timeline

1675
1675
Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts
1703
August 16, 1703
Age 28