Thomas R. Robinson letters, 1791-1851.

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Thomas R. Robinson letters, 1791-1851.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/713872694

Personal and business letters to Robinson from family, friends, and business associates, relating news of family life, finances, health, illness and death, farm business, Quaker movements, and abolitionism.

4 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 ...

Robinson family

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Hoag, Abigail Robinson, 1789-1855

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Robinson, Rowland T. (Rowland Thomas), 1796-1879

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Born in Ferrisburgh, Vt., son of Thomas R. Robinson; attended a Quaker boarding school in Washington, N.Y., where he met his wife, Rachel Gilpin of New York City and life long friend Ann King. He operated a merino sheep farm in Ferrisburgh, Vt., and worked to establish the Vermont Anti-Slavery Society and was involved with the Vermont Peace Society. His home, eventually named Rokeby, was used as a stop on the underground railroad. He was involved in the Quaker Hicksite controversy and active in ...

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, William T., 1754-

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Rokeby (Ferrisburgh, Vt.)

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