John Robinson immigrated to Newbury, Massachusetts, then moved to Haverhill, Massachusetts, and on to Exeter, New Hampshire in 1651. John had two brothers and six sisters.
Married December 1640/1, NH.
The early records of Exeter are made up pretty largely of the elections of officers and of grants of land, but an occasional entry is met with which apparently must have had in its time a special occasion, and that by consent of the major part of the town; and that any person warned to be at a town meeting who should not be there at half an hour after the time appointed, should pay for the use of the town two shillings; and John Robinson was appointed to “gather up” any fines incurred for violation of this order.
John Robinson is mentioned in the town’s books beginning on April 20, 1652. His son Jonathan is mentioned in the town’s books beginning on April 3, 1673. John, his son Jonathan and subsequent Robinson’s were active in public life in Exeter, New Hampshire.
On the twenty-third of October, 1652, John Robinson and John Gilman were chosen as overseers of work on the meeting house.
In 1664, October 10, the town gave authority to Thomas King, John Folsom, Sr. and John Robinson to lay out highways where they should judge convenient.
Although under the laws of Massachusetts the people of Exeter had to maintain a watch-house and some show of an organized militia, yet until the year 1675 the place had never been made the object of any Indian hostilities. There must have been intercourse between the whites and the aborigines, but their relations were pacific and friendly. Possibly the precautions taken by the former contributed to maintain this tranquility.
But in the year named and Indian war broke out, brief, but in some sections active and bloody. Philip, chief sachem of the Wampanoags, has the credit, or discredit, of being the instigator of the movement. His own people belonged in the southern part of New England, but he had the power and address to enlist some of the eastern tribes to make common cause with him. This was the less difficult, because some of them had grievances of their own to revenge.
Exeter was a frontier town, and necessarily suffered to some extent from the raids of the barbarous enemy. On October 21, 1675, John Robinson was killed by Indians while on his way to Hampton with one of his sons. Three Indians, whose names were John Sampson, Cromwell and John Linde, placed themselves in ambush in the woods near the road leading to Hampton. Soon afterwards John Robinson, a blacksmith who had removed from Haverhill, Massachusetts, to Exeter in 1657, made his appearance, with his son, on their way to Hampton. The father, according to tradition, was carrying a warming-pan. The Indians fired from their lurking place upon them, and shot the elder Robinson dead. The bullet passed through his body from back to front, and lodged just under the skin. The son, upon hearing the report of the guns, ran into the swamp where the Indians pursued, but could not overtake him. He reached Hampton about midnight and gave information of what had occurred.
Married December 1640/1, NH.
The early records of Exeter are made up pretty largely of the elections of officers and of grants of land, but an occasional entry is met with which apparently must have had in its time a special occasion, and that by consent of the major part of the town; and that any person warned to be at a town meeting who should not be there at half an hour after the time appointed, should pay for the use of the town two shillings; and John Robinson was appointed to “gather up” any fines incurred for violation of this order.
John Robinson is mentioned in the town’s books beginning on April 20, 1652. His son Jonathan is mentioned in the town’s books beginning on April 3, 1673. John, his son Jonathan and subsequent Robinson’s were active in public life in Exeter, New Hampshire.
On the twenty-third of October, 1652, John Robinson and John Gilman were chosen as overseers of work on the meeting house.
In 1664, October 10, the town gave authority to Thomas King, John Folsom, Sr. and John Robinson to lay out highways where they should judge convenient.
Although under the laws of Massachusetts the people of Exeter had to maintain a watch-house and some show of an organized militia, yet until the year 1675 the place had never been made the object of any Indian hostilities. There must have been intercourse between the whites and the aborigines, but their relations were pacific and friendly. Possibly the precautions taken by the former contributed to maintain this tranquility.
But in the year named and Indian war broke out, brief, but in some sections active and bloody. Philip, chief sachem of the Wampanoags, has the credit, or discredit, of being the instigator of the movement. His own people belonged in the southern part of New England, but he had the power and address to enlist some of the eastern tribes to make common cause with him. This was the less difficult, because some of them had grievances of their own to revenge.
Exeter was a frontier town, and necessarily suffered to some extent from the raids of the barbarous enemy. On October 21, 1675, John Robinson was killed by Indians while on his way to Hampton with one of his sons. Three Indians, whose names were John Sampson, Cromwell and John Linde, placed themselves in ambush in the woods near the road leading to Hampton. Soon afterwards John Robinson, a blacksmith who had removed from Haverhill, Massachusetts, to Exeter in 1657, made his appearance, with his son, on their way to Hampton. The father, according to tradition, was carrying a warming-pan. The Indians fired from their lurking place upon them, and shot the elder Robinson dead. The bullet passed through his body from back to front, and lodged just under the skin. The son, upon hearing the report of the guns, ran into the swamp where the Indians pursued, but could not overtake him. He reached Hampton about midnight and gave information of what had occurred.
John Robinson immigrated to Newbury, Massachusetts, then moved to Haverhill, Massachusetts, and on to Exeter, New Hampshire in 1651. John had two brothers and six sisters.
Married December 1640/1, NH.
The early records of Exeter are made up pretty largely of the elections of officers and of grants of land, but an occasional entry is met with which apparently must have had in its time a special occasion, and that by consent of the major part of the town; and that any person warned to be at a town meeting who should not be there at half an hour after the time appointed, should pay for the use of the town two shillings; and John Robinson was appointed to “gather up” any fines incurred for violation of this order.
John Robinson is mentioned in the town’s books beginning on April 20, 1652. His son Jonathan is mentioned in the town’s books beginning on April 3, 1673. John, his son Jonathan and subsequent Robinson’s were active in public life in Exeter, New Hampshire.
On the twenty-third of October, 1652, John Robinson and John Gilman were chosen as overseers of work on the meeting house.
In 1664, October 10, the town gave authority to Thomas King, John Folsom, Sr. and John Robinson to lay out highways where they should judge convenient.
Although under the laws of Massachusetts the people of Exeter had to maintain a watch-house and some show of an organized militia, yet until the year 1675 the place had never been made the object of any Indian hostilities. There must have been intercourse between the whites and the aborigines, but their relations were pacific and friendly. Possibly the precautions taken by the former contributed to maintain this tranquility.
But in the year named and Indian war broke out, brief, but in some sections active and bloody. Philip, chief sachem of the Wampanoags, has the credit, or discredit, of being the instigator of the movement. His own people belonged in the southern part of New England, but he had the power and address to enlist some of the eastern tribes to make common cause with him. This was the less difficult, because some of them had grievances of their own to revenge.
Exeter was a frontier town, and necessarily suffered to some extent from the raids of the barbarous enemy. On October 21, 1675, John Robinson was killed by Indians while on his way to Hampton with one of his sons. Three Indians, whose names were John Sampson, Cromwell and John Linde, placed themselves in ambush in the woods near the road leading to Hampton. Soon afterwards John Robinson, a blacksmith who had removed from Haverhill, Massachusetts, to Exeter in 1657, made his appearance, with his son, on their way to Hampton. The father, according to tradition, was carrying a warming-pan. The Indians fired from their lurking place upon them, and shot the elder Robinson dead. The bullet passed through his body from back to front, and lodged just under the skin. The son, upon hearing the report of the guns, ran into the swamp where the Indians pursued, but could not overtake him. He reached Hampton about midnight and gave information of what had occurred.
Married December 1640/1, NH.
The early records of Exeter are made up pretty largely of the elections of officers and of grants of land, but an occasional entry is met with which apparently must have had in its time a special occasion, and that by consent of the major part of the town; and that any person warned to be at a town meeting who should not be there at half an hour after the time appointed, should pay for the use of the town two shillings; and John Robinson was appointed to “gather up” any fines incurred for violation of this order.
John Robinson is mentioned in the town’s books beginning on April 20, 1652. His son Jonathan is mentioned in the town’s books beginning on April 3, 1673. John, his son Jonathan and subsequent Robinson’s were active in public life in Exeter, New Hampshire.
On the twenty-third of October, 1652, John Robinson and John Gilman were chosen as overseers of work on the meeting house.
In 1664, October 10, the town gave authority to Thomas King, John Folsom, Sr. and John Robinson to lay out highways where they should judge convenient.
Although under the laws of Massachusetts the people of Exeter had to maintain a watch-house and some show of an organized militia, yet until the year 1675 the place had never been made the object of any Indian hostilities. There must have been intercourse between the whites and the aborigines, but their relations were pacific and friendly. Possibly the precautions taken by the former contributed to maintain this tranquility.
But in the year named and Indian war broke out, brief, but in some sections active and bloody. Philip, chief sachem of the Wampanoags, has the credit, or discredit, of being the instigator of the movement. His own people belonged in the southern part of New England, but he had the power and address to enlist some of the eastern tribes to make common cause with him. This was the less difficult, because some of them had grievances of their own to revenge.
Exeter was a frontier town, and necessarily suffered to some extent from the raids of the barbarous enemy. On October 21, 1675, John Robinson was killed by Indians while on his way to Hampton with one of his sons. Three Indians, whose names were John Sampson, Cromwell and John Linde, placed themselves in ambush in the woods near the road leading to Hampton. Soon afterwards John Robinson, a blacksmith who had removed from Haverhill, Massachusetts, to Exeter in 1657, made his appearance, with his son, on their way to Hampton. The father, according to tradition, was carrying a warming-pan. The Indians fired from their lurking place upon them, and shot the elder Robinson dead. The bullet passed through his body from back to front, and lodged just under the skin. The son, upon hearing the report of the guns, ran into the swamp where the Indians pursued, but could not overtake him. He reached Hampton about midnight and gave information of what had occurred.
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