John Robinson
b. about 1580
| Charts | Ancestors of Harriet Hanson Robinson |
John Robinson was born about 1580.1 He married Katherine Eden, daughter of Henry Eden and Mary (---), about 1602 at Flitton-w-Silsoe, Bedfordshire, England.1 He was buried 4 November 1627 at Meppershall, Bedfordshire, England.1
John Robinson left a will dated 1 November 1627 at Archdeaconry, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England,
Body to the churchyard of Mappsall. To eldest son Edward Robinson shops at now dwelling house with all the tools, etc., and L5.8s. To other son John Robinson L10 at age of one and twenty years. To oldest daughter Mary wife of Edward Manning of Gravenhurst 5s. To second daughter Judith, third daughter Anne, fourth daughter Alice, and fifth daughter Joane, L20 each when they shall severally come to the age of one and twenty years. To loving wife Katherine all messuage or tenement wherein I now dwell except before excepted, with all the profit, commodities and appurtenances to the same belonging, with a close of arable land called Whittakers by estimation four acres, to have and to hold[etc] if she keep herself a widow. To son Edward and his heirs the said close called Whittakers after the decease or marriage of said wife Katherine, upon condition that he or his heirs or executors pay unto other son John, his heirs or assigns, the sum of L40 within one year next after the decease of said wife. If said Edward shall have no lawful children, on his death the said John or his heirs to have the said messuage or tenement witht he said close. All the residue of goods chattels and implements of household whatsoever unbequeathed, to said wife Katherine, she to be executrix. Brother-in-law Henry Eaden of Pulloxhill in Bedford, yeoman, overseer.
[signed] The mark of John Robinson
Witnesses: Geo: Nobel and Matt: Hare
Proved 20 November 1627.1,2
John Robinson left a will dated 1 November 1627 at Archdeaconry, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England,
Body to the churchyard of Mappsall. To eldest son Edward Robinson shops at now dwelling house with all the tools, etc., and L5.8s. To other son John Robinson L10 at age of one and twenty years. To oldest daughter Mary wife of Edward Manning of Gravenhurst 5s. To second daughter Judith, third daughter Anne, fourth daughter Alice, and fifth daughter Joane, L20 each when they shall severally come to the age of one and twenty years. To loving wife Katherine all messuage or tenement wherein I now dwell except before excepted, with all the profit, commodities and appurtenances to the same belonging, with a close of arable land called Whittakers by estimation four acres, to have and to hold[etc] if she keep herself a widow. To son Edward and his heirs the said close called Whittakers after the decease or marriage of said wife Katherine, upon condition that he or his heirs or executors pay unto other son John, his heirs or assigns, the sum of L40 within one year next after the decease of said wife. If said Edward shall have no lawful children, on his death the said John or his heirs to have the said messuage or tenement witht he said close. All the residue of goods chattels and implements of household whatsoever unbequeathed, to said wife Katherine, she to be executrix. Brother-in-law Henry Eaden of Pulloxhill in Bedford, yeoman, overseer.
[signed] The mark of John Robinson
Witnesses: Geo: Nobel and Matt: Hare
Proved 20 November 1627.1,2
Family | Katherine Eden b. abt. 1583, d. bef. Oct 1646 |
| Marriage* | He married Katherine Eden, daughter of Henry Eden and Mary (---), about 1602 at Flitton-w-Silsoe .1 |
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Citations
- [S73] Douglas Richardson, "The English Ancestry of John Robinson of Newbury and Haverhill, Massachusetts and Exeter, New Hampshire, With An Identification of His Wife Elizabeth Pemberton," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 147 (April 1989): 141-150. Hereafter cited as "The English Ancestry of John Robinson."
- [S72] Elizabeth French, "Genealogical Research in England," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 63 (January 1909): 34-35. Hereafter cited as "Will of John Robinson."
- [S75] Douglas Richardson, "John Robinson (1612-1675) of Newbury, Haverhill and Exeter," The American Genealogist 55 (Jan 1979): 16-18. Hereafter cited as "John Robinson."
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