When John Robinson was born in 1715, in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, British Colonial America, his father, Thomas Robinson, was 22 and his mother, Hanah Howe, was 23. He married Martha Scribner on 14 November 1739, in Kingston, Rockingham, New Hampshire, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 14 March 1784, in Deerfield, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Deerfield, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States.