When Betsey Robinson was born on 13 August 1784, in Sanbornton, Belknap, New Hampshire, United States, her father, John Robinson, was 48 and her mother, Abigail Whidden, was 38. She died on 2 August 1813, in her hometown, at the age of 28.
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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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