When Jane Robinson was born in 1802, in North Carolina, United States, her father, Samuel Roberson, was 26 and her mother, Mrs Samuel Roberson, was 25. She married Parks F Jarrell on 15 November 1827, in Floyd, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Morgan, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years and Magisterial District 1 Sandy Hook, Elliott, Kentucky, United States in 1880. She died after 1880, in Elliott, Kentucky, United States, and was buried in Crisp Family Cemetery, Sandy Hook, Elliott, Kentucky, United States.
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The Walton War was a border dispute between Georgia and North Carolina, when Georgia established Walton County. The main piece of land being fought over was called the Orphan Strip and was located between North Carolina and Georgia. It started in 1804 and became part of the War of 1812 and lasted until 1818.
During the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812, the Kentucky Bend or New Madrid Bend was created. It is located in the southwestern corner of Kentucky on the banks of the Mississippi River.
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
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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