Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

230 GENEALOGICAli NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES,
the favor of the oovernment to a sense of duty, as his uoble father
had done before him.
In 1700 he had divided his estate equally between his three
sons, and in 1701 deeded his homestead and garden in Falmouth
to his son Isaac. This was the flrst house built in town, and
stood on the south side of Fresh Fond. The site is easily identi-
fied. The next year, probably, he returned to Barnstable, to live
with his daughter. Fear, the wife of Rev. Samuel Baiter. He
doubtless had some landed estate reniaiiiiug in Barnstable, for the
town voted "to give old Mr. Robinson an acre and a half of
marsh," wiiich they would hardly have done unless he had been
possessed of other real estate.
Chief -Justice Sewell, who was making a tour of the colony in
1702, saw Isaac Robinson at Tisbury, where he must have been
on a visit, if the date of his removal to Barnstable has been correctly
stated. The judge seems for some special reason to have
been very desirous to see him. He writes in his diary: "He
saith he is 92 years old, is ye son of Mr. Robinson, pastor of ye
ch. of Leyden part of wch came to Plyiiio. But, to my dinappowtment.
he came not to New Et?gland till ye year in which Mr. Wilson
was returning to England after ye settlement of Boston. I
told him I was very desirous to see him for his father's sake and
his own. Gave him an Arabian piece of gold to buy a book for
some of his grandchildren." The next day the Judge lost his
way. He called on Mr. Robinson, who offered him "some good
small beer," and one of his sons to bear him company for awhile
on his journey. At this time Mr. Robinson was represented as a
hale, vigorous person, with hair as white as snow. Prince, in his
Annals, describes him as "a venerable man whom I have often
seen." He died at Barnstable in 1704. "If any humble slate
ever marked the spot where they laid him," says Mrs. Dall, "it
has crumbled away." But it is fitting that a life of such patient
liberality and unambitious steadfastness in the cause of truth,
should be fitly commemorated.
ISAAC ROBINSON AND HIS POSTERITY.
Isaac Robinson, born 1610; married Margaret Hanford,
June 27th, 1636. They had five children :
1. Susannah, baptized Jan. 21, 1638; but dead before 1664.
2. John, baptized April 5, 1640; man-ied Elizabeth Weeks,
May 1, 1667, and went from Falmouth to Connecticut in 1714.
He was the first deputy from Falmouth to the Colony Court in
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the year 1690 and '91.
3. Isaac, baptized Aug. 7, 1642; married Ann; was drowned
at Falmouth, without issue, Oct. 6, 1668.
4. Fear, baptized Jan. 26, 1645; married Rev. S. Baker of
Barnstable.