Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

ROBINSON.
ISAAC KOBINSON.
Isaac EobiDSon, son and third child of John Robinson, the
Leyden pastor of blessed memory, was born in that city in 1610.
He came to this country in 1631. He was first settled in Plymouth,
was in Duxbury in 1634, and went to Scituate in 1636, on
which year he was admitted as a freeman. He the same year
married Margaret Hanford, daughter of Rev. Thomas Hanford,
the first minister at Norwalk, Ct., and a niece of Timothy Hatherly,
a London merchant, the founder of Scituate. He took a
letter of dismission from the church in Plymouth, and here Joined
Rev. John Lothrop on the 7th of July, 1639. His first estate in
Barnstable Was opposite to that of Gov. Hinckley. This he sold
and took another of twenty acres further to the west. In 1639
and 1648 he was a member of the Grand Inquest for the colony.
In 1641 he was on the jury for trials. In 1645 he was a deputy
from Barnstable to the General Court at Plymouth, and in 1646,
'47 and '48 was "receiver of excise" for the town. In 1651 he
was again a deputy. These positions indicate the confidence and
esteem in which he was held, up to this time.
The Quaker persecution showed the moral quality of this
man and his sympathy of spirit with his illustrious father, who declared
to the departing Pilgrims, in a sermon which was so much
in advance of the age, and even of most of his hearers, "The
Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word. * *
I beseach you, remember it, 'tis an article of your church covenant,
that you be ready to receive whatever truth shall be made known
to you from the written word of God." In 1659-60, the laws forbidding
attendance upon Quaker meetings were so far relaxed as
to permit and encourage certain persons, among them Gen. James
Cudworth and Isaac Robinson, to attend these meetings and try
to convince the Quakers of their errors. The effect was contrary
to expectation. Robinson and Cudworth were never Quakers •
but they firmly believed these people to be following the dictates
of their own consciences ; that it was their right and duty to do