When Stephen Robinson Jr was born in 1778, in Cumberland, Virginia, United States, his father, Stephen Robinson, was 26 and his mother, Betty Holland, was 26. He married Martha Meador on 23 December 1812, in Cumberland, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 13 January 1846, in Temperance Hall, DeKalb, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Robinson Cemetery, Bedford, Tennessee, United States.
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On April 18, 1780 Richmond became the capital of Virginia. It was the temporary capital from 1780-1788.
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
On June 1, 1796, Tennessee became the 16th state.
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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