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Deacon Increase Robinson, IV

Male 1739 - Yes, date unknown

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  • Name Increase Robinson  [1]
    Prefix Deacon
    Suffix IV
    Birth 1739  Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Male
    Death Yes, date unknown 
    Person ID I4495  Bisbee
    Last Modified 17 Nov 2009

    Father Increase Robinson, III,   b. Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Mother Margaret Bonney   d. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F2180  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Rebekah Bourne,   b. 1733   d. Yes, date unknown
    Marriage
    • This family, with their eight children, moved from Pembroke, Mass. in 1783 and were the sixth family to settle in the easter part of Sumner, Maine. [2]
    Children 
     1. Joseph Robinson   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Priscilla Robinson   d. Yes, date unknown
    +3. Asa Robinson   d. Yes, date unknown
     4. Elizabeth Robinson   d. Yes, date unknown
     5. Alvin Robinson   d. Yes, date unknown
     6. Myrtilla Robinson   d. Yes, date unknown
     7. Susan Robinson   d. Yes, date unknown
    +8. Increase Robinson, V,   b. Buckfield, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F2174  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 17 Nov 2009

  • Event Map
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  • Notes 
    • Deacon Increase Robinson 4th was born in 1739; his wife, Rebekah Bourne, 1n 1733. They moved from Pembroke, Mass. in 1783 and were the sixth family to settle in the eastern part of Sumner, Maine. They brought their eight children with them.

      Deacon Increase built the first grocery store in Sumner. He was a cooper and made many useful utensils for the early settlers. The first public worship was held in his house. He built the first frame dwelling in town which was occupied until the fourth generation when it was given to the town of East Sumner for use as a library and community center. His son Increase 5th succeeded to the mills (he evidently owned a mill or mills which he operated) for many years and he in turn by his son, Deacon Sharon Robinson who lived and died on the old homestead. The mill was located where part of East Sumner now is and was destroyed by fire in 1871. [3]

  • Sources 
    1. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 280.

    2. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), p. 185.

    3. [S2291] Frank Jones Bisbee, Genealogy of the Bisbee Family, (1956; reprint, Decatur, MI: Johnson Graphics, 1992), pp. 185-6.