When Hannah Robinson was born on 24 February 1698, in New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Jacob Robinson, was 25 and her mother, Sarah Eliakim Hitchcock, was 28. She married Thomas Dawson in 1717, in East Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She died on 1 February 1781, in Connecticut, United States, at the age of 82.