When Robinson Treferrin was born on 4 April 1721, in New Castle, Rockingham, New Hampshire, British Colonial America, his father, Henry Trefethen, was 50 and his mother, Mary Robinson, was 41. He married Abigail Locke on 25 January 1748, in Rye, Rockingham, New Hampshire, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Rye, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States in 1721. In 1748, his occupation is listed as "the first inn or tavern in rye, of which any record has been found, was at the centre of the town and was kept by robinson treferrin--probably a corrupiton of trefethen...treferrin came to rye from great island in 1747 or 1748 and in those years probably erected the house which he conducted as a tavern until september 1756, when he sold it to simon, peter, and benjamin garland for 2426 pounds, old tender." in Rye, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States. He died before 2 September 1794, in Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States.
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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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