When Thomas Robinson was born in 1698, in Durham, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, his father, David Robinson Sr., was 38 and his mother, Mary Atwater, was 36. He died on 4 March 1774, in Connecticut, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Coginchaug, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.
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Durham was settled in 1698. It's original name was Coginchaug. In 1704 it was changed to Durham, from the town of that name in the north of England. In 1708 Durham was incorporated as a town. This burial ground was given by the proprietors soon after the settlement of the town ... Interment.net
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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