Letters of Sarah and Abigail Robinson, 1757-1828.

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Letters of Sarah and Abigail Robinson, 1757-1828.

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Personal letters to Sarah (Richardson) Robinson and daughter Abigail Robinson, living in Newport, R.I., relating to family news and business matters in Rhode Island and Vermont.

2 folders.

Rokeby Museum

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Robinson, Thomas, 1731-1817

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Thomas Robinson was a Quaker minister from Newport, Rhode Island. He was born in 1731 to William Robinson and Abigail Hazard Robinson. In 1753 Robinson became a commission merchant in Newport, where he had an interest in distilleries and a part in the slave trade. Distressed by what he saw in this venture, he became an ardent opponent of the slave trade and eventually promoted the idea of freedom for all enslaved people. In 1754 Robinson married Sarah Richardson (-1817). The couple had 6 ...

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Robinson, Sarah Richardson

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Robinson, Thomas R. (Thomas Richardson), 1761-1851

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Thomas R. Robinson (1761-1851), son of Thomas and Sarah (Richardson) Robinson, was a Quaker from Newport, Rhode Island, who moved to Vergennes, Vermont, in 1792 and then to nearby Ferrisburgh. There he settled on land deeded to him by his brother William and operated a farm called Rokeby, which remained in his family until 1962. Robinson established saw, grist, and fulling mills on the Lewis Creek a few miles away and in 1810 purchased some of the first Merino sheep to be imported from Spain. He...

Robinson, Abigail, -1835

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Hoag, Nathan C., 1785-

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