When Joseph Robinson III was born in 1678, in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Joseph Robinson II, was 33 and his mother, Phebe Dane, was 27. He married Elizabeth Stevens on 20 March 1707, in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 9 April 1761, in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 83.
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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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