When Nathaniel Robinson was born on 10 June 1785, in Windham, Connecticut, United States, his father, Nathaniel Robinson, was 33 and his mother, Phebe Coleman, was 26. He married Emma Greer on 12 April 1807, in Mansfield, Windham, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States in 1850. He died on 7 May 1867, in Willimantic, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 81.
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Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
Connecticut became a state on January 9, 1788. In 1650, before it was a state, the boundary of Connecticut ran north from the westside of Greenwich Bay and the coast of the Pacific Ocean. During the 1600s, Westmoreland County was in Connecticut when the boundaries were changed Westmoreland County went to Pennsylvania.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
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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