Hannah Robinson

Brief Life History of Hannah

When Hannah Robinson was born on 24 February 1698, in Newhaven Towne, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Jacob Robinson, was 25 and her mother, Sarah Merrick Hitchcock, was 28. She married Thomas Dawson about 1718, in Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. She died on 1 February 1781, in Connecticut, United States, at the age of 82.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Dawson
1687–1759
Hannah Robinson
1698–1781
Marriage: about 1718
Hannah Dawson
1719–1797
Sarah Dawson
1723–1736
Mary Dawson
1726–1736
Sarah Dawson
1736–1764
Lydia Dawson
1727–1789
Joseph Dawson
1735–1737
Mary Dawson
1740–

Sources (5)

  • Hanah Robinson, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
  • Hanah Robinson, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
  • Hannah in entry for Mary Dawson, "England, Staffordshire, Church Records, 1538-1944"

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World Events (4)

1701

The city served as co-capital of Connecticut from 1701 until 1873

1707

The Connecticut Colony granted the town petition for Township in May 1707 and colonists changed the name from Iron Works Village to East Haven

1776

Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.

Name Meaning

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).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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