w/o 1st John Wilkinson, 2nd Major Benjamin Robinson

Birth: in District of West Augusta, then Monongalia county, now Harrison county, Virginia, now West Virginia

Mary Margaret Asson was born in District of West Augusta of which twelve years before her birth, in the year 1745, all that portion of the Colony of Virginia which lay west of the Blue Ridge Mountains was erected into a County which was named Augusta. In December of that year, the County Court was organized and held its first sitting. Prior to that time it had become the refuge and abiding place of a strong body of Scotch-Irish immigrants. The bounds of the new County were limited on the north by Thomas Lord Fairfax's Northern Neck Grant and the boundaries of Maryland and Pennsylvania to the westward of Fairfax; on the east by the Blue Ridge mountains; on the south by the Carolina line. On the west its territory embraced all the soil held by the British without limit of extent. For about twelve years the County Court of Augusta was the only Court and repository of records within that district. From the end of that period, at frequent intervals, its jurisdiction was restricted by the erection of other Counties as the demands of the settlers required. Its original constitution embraced all Virginia west of the Blue Ridge (with the exception of the Northern Neck Grant under Thomas Lord Fairfax, whose southern boundary was in the present County of Shenandoah, and western, through the Counties of Hardy, Hampshire, and northward to the Potomac); the whole of the present state of West Virginia; a portion of the present Southwestern Pennsylvania, including Pittsburgh, which was, at times, the seat of the County Court; and the lands on the waters of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

SOURCE: Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia; Volume I
[page 7]

In 1776 Monongalia county was created and from it came Harrison County Virginia, and southwestern counties in Pennsylvania, south of Ohio River by the 1784 act which very much displeased a George Washington who had built his state of the art grist mill in what now was Pennsylvania, and providing another state control over the waterway route for the Ohio Company products to the Potomac river waterway, to Alexandria and to the world. George looked to other routes through Harrison County for a possible water route during his 3rd trip to area in September 1784.

She was well acquainted with Lt Samuel Boggess (1742-1835) and wife Elizabeth (-), with several children intermarried with Boggess children.

One of her grandsons, Samuel Boggess (1811-1888), married 2nd wife, Sarah Elizabeth Wood (1835VA-1918MO), both buried in restored Point Pleasant cemetery ten miles up Tenmile creek from their Lumberport farm.


Death: in Harrison, formerly Monongalia county, Virginia now West Virginia

Father: Assom or Asson
Mother: currently unknown

Marriage 1 John Wilkinson
Married: currently unknown

Children, currently unknown

Marriage 2 Major Benjamin Robinson b: 2 JUL 1758 in District of West Augusta then Monongalia now Harrison county, West Virginia
Married: 19 MAY 1785 in Monongalia formerly in District of West Augusta, now Harrison county, West Virginia

Known Children

David W. Robinson b: 13 SEP 1786 in Harrison county,
Virginia now West Virginia

Margaret Robinson b: 7 JAN 1788 in Harrison county, Virginia now West Virginia

Magdalene Robinson b: 12 NOV 1789 in Harrison county, Virginia now West Virgina

Mary Elizabeth Robinson b: 2 FEB 1791 in Harrison county, Virginia now West Virginia

Benjamin Robinson b: 18 SEP 1792 in Harrison county, Virginia now West Virginia

John R. Robinson b: 5 JAN 1794 in Lumberport, Harrison county, Virginia now West Virginia

Susanna Robinson b: 17 SEP 1795 in Harrison county, Virginia now West irgini

Malinda Robinson b: 14 MAR 1797 in Harrison county, Virginia now West Virginia

William Marshall Robinson b: 27 OCT 1798 in Lumberport, Harrison county, Virginia now West Virginia