JOHN ROBINSON.
The ancestor of the distinguished family Robinson in Virginia, was
Christopher Robinson, of Cleasby, in Yorkshire, England, who settled
about the year 1666, at "Hewick," near Urbanna, in Middlesex County.
He was the brother of the Right Reverend John Robinson (born 1650,
died 1722), a distinguished prelate and statesman, who was Bishop of
London as well as embassador for many years to Sweden, and who
represented England as First Plenipotentiary at the Congress of Utrecht
in 1712.
Christopher Robinson was born in 1645; married, first, Agatha Bertram,
secondly, Catharine, daughter of Theodore Hone, and widow of
Robert Beverley, of Virginia. John Robinson, their second son, was born
in 1683. As President of the Council, he was Acting Governor of Virginia
from June 20th to his death in September, 1749. He married,
first Catherine, daughter of Robert Beverley, and, secondly, Mrs. Mary
Welsh, of Essex County, Va. His descendants through intermarriage
have been connected with nearly all of the old Virginia families, and
the name Robinson itself has had many worthy and valued representatives
in the annals of the Colony and State.
