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1881 HISTORY OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Inter-State Publishing Company
Chicago, Illinois, 1881





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JAMES T. ROBINSON, was born January 21, 1808, at New Malton, Yorkshire, England. Of his ancestors, Thomas Robinson, merchant, of Malton, England, died October 23, 1779, aged sixty-eight years. His son, Marmaduke, died April 28, 1797, aged seventy-nine. His son, William Barton Robinson, married Alice Blackburn; they had four children; their two youngest were James T. and Barton, sketches of whom are herewith given: James T. came to New York in 1829, traveled through the Eastern States and Canada and came to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in December, 1830, in buffalo Hart Grove, just in time to witness the "deep snow".

In the spring of 1832, Mr. Robinson having business East, embarked on the steamboat Talisman on the Sangamon river, near Springfield, and went as far as St. Louis, on that boat, an account of its trip up the Sangamon river is given elsewhere in this volume. James T. Robinson died December 8, 1871.

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