Elizabeth Edmiston1
d. before 16 December 1817
Marriage | 20 May 1789 | Elizabeth Edmiston married John Robinson, son of John Robinson, on 20 May 1789.3 |
Land-Buy | 13 Dec 1805 | John Robinson and John Edmiston [probably Elizabeth's brother] purchased 328 acres from Mathew and Leah Kincannon for £1,000 in 1805. The land was part of a larger tract originally surveyed by Mathew Kincannon's father, Francis Kincannon in 1774.4 |
Land-Sell | 18 Jul 1808 | Less than 3 years later, in 1808, John and Elizabeth Robinson, and John Edmiston sold the lower 182 acres to Moses Edmiston [probably also Elizabeth's brother] for £500. The deed was witnessed by John Clark, David Robinson and Mitchell Robinson.5 [probably John Robinson's brothers] |
Land-Buy | 16 Oct 1812 | Then on 16 Oct 1812 John Robinson purchased John Edmiston's interest in the northern part of the tract which the two men had continued to own jointly.6 |
Death | before 16 Dec 1817 | Elizabeth died before 16 Dec 1817 at which time John married for a second time. |
Family | John Robinson b. say 1765, d. 29 Jun 1826 |
Children | - Elizabeth Robinson7,9 (6 Mar 1790 - )
- Rachel Robinson7 (5 May 1792 - )
- Moses Edmondson Robinson7 (26 Sep 1794 - 3 Aug 1857)
- James Robinson7 (2 Oct 1796 - 18 Nov 1857)
- John R. Robinson7 (20 Dec 1801 - 3 Jun 1852)
- Eleanor Robinson7 (12 Apr 1804 - )
- Ebenezer Alexander Robinson+7 (Jun 1806 - 3 Sep 1879)
- Jane Edmiston Robinson7 (1 Jul 1809 - )
- David Robinson7 (26 Sep 1812 - )
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Citations
- [S617] Moses Edmondson will (recorded 1806), Washington Co., Virginia, Will Bk 3: 11. The will was dated 12 April 1806 and recorded 17 June 1806.
- [S617] Rachel Edmiston nuncupative will (1812), Washington Co., Virginia, Will Bk 3: 293.
- [S3116] Frances Cooke Chan, Ancestors of Edna Katherine & Pearl May Barlow: allied families of Robinson, Edmiston, Wilcox, Alton, Farwell, Welby, Harwick & Martz, digitized images, Family Search (http://www.familysearch.org/ : accessed March 2013), p. 35. Ms Chan cites death dates fro John Robinson Jr.'s children, marriage dates and wives names to notes copied from a Robinson family Bible by Ruth Richards of Creston IA. The Bible was held by Mahlon Robinson of Washington Co., VA.
- [S1707] Washington Co., Virginia Deed Book 3: 424. Mathew Kincannon and Leah, his wife to John Robinson & John Edmiston, 13 Dec. 1805, for £1,000, 328 acres on the waters of the Middle Fork of the Holston River adj George Kincannon, [John] Orr, Henry Jones [James] Dysart.
- [S2152] Washington Co., Virginia Deed Book 4: 146. John Robinson and Elizabeth his wife, and John Edmiston to Moses Edmiston, 18 Jul 1808, for £500, 182 acres on the waters of the Middle Fork of the Holston River whereon Moses now lives; recorded 17 Jan 1809.
- [S1047] Washington Co., Virginia Deed Book 5: 139. John Edmiston to John Robinson, 16 Oct. 1812, for $1,586.67, one undivided moiety of a certain tract containing 180 ac, it being part of a tract of land purchased by the said John Edmiston and the said John Robinson from Mathew Kincannon and lying on the waters of the Middle Fork of the Holston River.
- [S1199] Victoria Gilliam, "M.W. Robinson house", 1937, digital image, Works Progress Administration of Virginia Historical Inventory, Library of Virginia Online, <<http://www.lva.virginia.gov>>: accessed Feb. 2013. Ms Gilliam's primary sources were Mr. M.W. Robinson and Mr. John Robinson. [sons of Ebenezer Alexander Robinson (1806-1879) and grandsons of John Robinson]
- [S1376] Image cropped from Washington County Surveyed and Drawn under the Direction of John Wood dated 1821; from the Lib. of VA Digital Collection (digital Board of Public Works Collection) and used with permission. The full map may be viewed online at: http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/…
- [S2146] Jack Hockett, Washington Co. VA Will Book 14 1856-1859, abstracted, citing Will Bk 14: 184; will of Moses E. Robinson which names sister Elizabeth Kerr.