Sarah Robinson

Sarah Penniman

• Birth: 16 May 1641, Braintree (now Quincy), Norfolk, MA
• Death;? (after 16 Aug 1703, when "my honored mother" was mentioned in her son Josiah's will)
• Father: James PENNIMAN , 10106 (<1599-1664)
• Mother: Lydia ELIOT , 10107 (<1610-<1676)
• Married: Increase ROBINSON , (Birth14 Mar [1641/]1642, Taunton (now Raynham), Bristol, MA Death 1699, Taunton (now Raynham), Bristol, MA)

Increase Robinson and his wife Sarah Penniman had seven children,--three sons and four daughters.

1. Increase Jr. who married Mehitabel Williams of Taunton, and died in Taunton in 1738;
2. Ebenezer born in Taunton in 1680, married Mary Williams and died in South Raynham October 9, 1753;
3. Josiah who died single in 1703 or 4;
4. Sarah, who married Samuel Dean of Taunton;
5. Bethiah, who married Peter Pitts of Taunton;
6. Hannah, who married John Williams of Taunton, and
7. Abigail, who married John Forbes of Bridgewater.

Notes

"19 Sarah b Braintree 16 May 1641 [NEHGR 3:247]; m Dorchester 19 Jan 1663/4 Increase Robinson [DVR 21]."

From 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 24

Administration of the estate of Increase Robinson, Jr., was taken by his oldest son William Robinson March 20, 1738-9. Some impulse led me to examine the papers in that estate, and to my surprise and delight I found among them the original bond given by Sarah Robinson as executrix of her husband's will, the important parts of which I give:

"Known all men by these presents, that we Sarah Robinson widow and relict of Increase Robinson late of Taunton in the County of Bristol in New England dec'd & John Cary of Bristol carpenter & James Adams of said Bristol cordwayner, do stand firmly bound and obliged unto John Saffin Esq. Judge of Probate in the full and just sum of Eight hundred pounds" . . . . "The condition of this present obligation is such that whereas the above bounden Sarah Robinson is made executrix of the last will & testament of Increase Robinson late of said Taunton dec'd bearing date the second day of Nov. 1699, & hath now legally proved the same. If therefore" &c.

Dated April 10, 1700 Signed Sarah Robinson
John Cary
James Adams.

The will itself I have not found. In the removal of the County records from Bristol to Taunton in 1747 which was attended with some unpleasantness, some papers may have been lost. But there was a will and it was duly proved as recited in the bond of his widow, and mentioned in the deed given by his son Ebenezer already cited. The date of the will as given in the bond was November 2, 1699, three days before the charge against him in Capt. Leonard's ledger of "a potion of pills, mint water, cordiall potions, &c., &c." Doubtless at that time he realized the approach of death and was prompted to arrange his worldly affairs.

• http://capecodgenes.com/web%20cards/ps46/ps46_406.html
• 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
• "The Penniman Family" by Rev G.W. Penniman.  The Robinsons and their kin folk Robinson Family Genealogical and Historical Association. Published 1902 by The Association in New York, N.Y.  Page 38-47.
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