When Mary Robinson was born on 22 April 1698, in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Dane Robinson, was 27 and her mother, Mary Chadwick, was 23. She married Samuel Peters on 27 May 1722, in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 16 June 1747, in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 49.
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English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): patronymic from the Middle English personal name Robin , a pet form of Robert , + -son. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
French: from a pet form of the personal name Robin .
West Indian (including Haiti) and Guyanese: most likely not (only) of English or French origin as in 1 above and 2 above, but also, if not mostly, from the related name of the famous Daniel Defoe's literary character Robinson Crusoe (from a novel first published in 1719).
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